40GB Harddisk being recognized as only 8.4GB

[netscaper]

I have an old PC with a Asus motherboard installed, and an Award Software BIOS identified as follows:

Award BIOS V4.51PG
BIOS ID String: 06/10/96-82430HX-PI55T2P4C-00

I tried to install a 40GB Maxtor ATA/133 harddisk but the disk autodetection feature from the BIOS setup always recognizes only 8.4GB. As far as I could find, this is a known limitation that could be solved by updating the motherboard BIOS. However, since both the machine and the installed BIOS version seem to be a bit old, I could’t find any available update for it.
Please, any help on where can I download a suitable BIOS update to solve this problem?

Thanks a lot

[cp]

get a patched bios here:

http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm

and make sure to send Jan an email saying 'Thank You!' :)

[netscaper]

Hi cp

Thanks for your reply and your help. I followed the link you pointed out and found there updates for XP55T2P4, XP55T2P4 and P55T2P4S but none for the specfic case I was looking for, which is the PI55T2P4C.

I tried to flash those ones (making a backup copy of the BIOS first, just in case...) and none of them could be flashed successfully. Fortunately I had the BIOS safe copy to put back after the update failed and the PC still runs the setup and boots fine from floppy.

I used UniFlash but doesn't seem to me the problem comes from the flashing utility but from the BIOS update file not being the right one.

Any ideias?

Thanks once again

[cp]

the bios for the P55T2P4 / XP55T2P4 should work on your mainboard, too. the T2P4C only is an OEM version of the original T2P4.