Movita Notebook with Insyde Bios crashing on 40GB HDD

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Good Evening,

i've got Problems with a Movita Fuego 205 Notebook, which does not recognize HDDs over 40GB.
(the last built in HDD was 20GB, but it died a few weeks ago.)

The Notebook simply crashes when it should detect the HDDs.

Tried various things, (Dynamic Drive Overlay, setting a size below 32GB with Manufacture Utils) but nothing helps.

something about the Bios:
Insyde Mobile Pro
Insyde 205 Bios Build 0.0.328
build on 28.02.2005
Insyde ACPI 1.00.12

i've uploaded the latest Bios, http://free.pages.at/tf2k/205328.zip

Would be nice if someone can take a look on this, so i can use at least a 40GB HDD.

The Notebook served me a long time, so it should do again

[edwin]

The only option I see is using the harddisk jumper to set clipping to 32GB on the harddisk.

This bios brand has no patches by us, we only patch Award bioses.

arg, i expected such an answer

Thanks for the reply.

[cp]

read the sticky note. Windows 2000 and XP will be able to go round the 32GB limitation out of the box and without any special hacking. just make sure to install your boot partition within the bios-recognized space and have the latest windows service packs installed.

Hello,

sure, but the Notebook locks up during boot up, when it should recognize the HDD.

Setting the HDD Size a bit smaller(with Samsung HUtil) worked for the BIOS, but not for the OS.

Windows Setup hung up during the Setup Step, where it scans for the HDD.

[Denniss]

Try to limit the capacity of your HDD with the small jumper, every HDD above 32GB should have the option to limit capacity via jumper.

This limitation should only affect the Bios, not the OS. A limitation by software, usually by modifying firmware parameters, sometimes has problems.

[edwin]

maybe windows needs special driver for the harddisk controller.