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Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

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[edwin]

1) use NTFS filesystem to format not FAT32.

2) you may have an ECS K7VTA3 board or a PC Chips M811, to find that out, open the case and check for any board markings, if that K7VTA3 marking has a version number as well, post that too.

[KURIAKI]

edwin wrote:

2) you may have an ECS K7VTA3 board or a PC Chips M811, to find that out, open the case and check for any board markings, if that K7VTA3 marking has a version number as well, post that too.

ECS Elitegroup K7VTA3 (6.0) for sure:
http://web.archive.org/web/200404011336 ... ta3_6.html
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Downloads/ ... 7VTA3(V6.0)&MenuID=35&LanID=0

[edwin]

PC Chips M811 reported with same string, maybe it's the same board with a different label...

[KURIAKI]

Maybe Chawanwat can say us what OEM Sign-On is displayed when his PC starts.
PcChips message:
M811 Release XX/XX/XXXX
ECS Elitegroup message:
K7VTA3 V6.Xx XX/XX/XXXX

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[KURIAKI]

chawanwat wrote:

but theres 2 things to download 6.0c and 6.0b which one should i get ?

Release 6.0c is the latest one.

hey I already update the BIOS and backup my old one, but nothing change how do i know if its allready updated my BIOS or not ?

I look up my ST3200822A information, and it said Capacity is 190779 MB and Unallocated Space is 160783 MB but when i use my Windows XP cd to format my drives ( u know when u put in ur xp disc then press any key to boot it up ) and i try to format drive D after delete the old one, but where it tell me to put down how much allocate space i want, the maximum is only around 100000 MB.

do i need to delete the old drive C too ? to format new drive C and D to get the full 190GB ?

and what about the BIOS update, if i reformat my drive C will the updated BIOS still be there or its going to be a new BIOS without the update again. ( which mean the capacity will go down to the 120 GB again. )

PS. I just notice something kinda weird, by the information from KURIAKI website about my bios found here http://www.supportbios.info/modelo.asp? ... &Idioma=EN
for the K7VTA3 V6.0B-A 07/07/2004 which the one i have the download file name is a360707a.BIN but the one that can be download from here http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Downloads/ ... 7VTA3(V6.0)&MenuID=35&LanID=0
is a360719.bin. Isn't it different version ?

[KURIAKI]

ECS web page shows you two BIOS files to download:

6.0c version, the most recent (a360719.BIN)
ftp://64.124.27.138/ecs/bios/mb/k7/k7vta3/60c.exe

6.0b version, your actual BIOS (a360707a.BIN)
ftp://64.124.27.138/ecs/bios/mb/k7/k7vta3/60b.exe

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[KURIAKI]

From Microstar FAQ's:

Here are your options :

A.If the manufacturer of the board has writen a bios to support larger drives it might solve your problem.
This is the best solution if such an upgrade is available.

B.Install a PCI IDE controller card, this card must have it's own bios!
This is the 2'nd best solution as it has extra costs, but it is the safest and might be faster than the outdated IDE controllers on your aged motherboard.

C.If you do not need to boot from this new drive and intend to only use it for storage while keeping the boot drive on the old HDD you do not need the bios te even detect the drive!
Set the corresponding IDE device in the bios to none and allow windows to detect the drive.
Don't forget to partition and format the drive in windows.
A good solution, but remember the drive won't be accessable in DOS mode.

D.Use the cylinder limitation jumper to make the bios detect the drive as a smaller volume than it actually is.
This is accomplished by jumpering the drive according to the manufacturer's instructions ( can be found below ).
Once you have done this your bios should detect the drive according to the following rule :
8-32GB->8GB
32 and up -> 32GB
At this point the rest of the drive won't be accessable, to be able to access the rest of the space you need a dynamic disk overlay utility which the manufacturers provide.
These are generally only good under windows 95/98/ME, not for linux or windows NT/2000/XP.
This solution is cheap, but not always dependable and tricky to accomplish.

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[Denniss]

What HDD size does your Bios detect ?
-> What was detected with the old version 6.0b and what does the 6.0c detect ?

If Bios detects only 32GB then remove the 32Gb limit jumper from your HDD.

WinXP does support HDD larger than 128GB only with SP1 or SP2 installed, older versions only support 128GB. You have to have SP1 or SP2 integrated into your setup CD to be able to use full capacity from start, otherwise space above 128GB will be accessible as soon as SP1/2 are installed.

www.48bitlba.com

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