Bios update for M841LR

[Bioman]

Hi guys.
I spent some hours to find FREE bios update for my Socket A MB and nothing. There is one through e-support in MA but $60.00. I tried to detect new 300Gig hardy, the bios detects full size but when I start to install winXP it reads only about 130Gigs or so availiable.
I went to manufactures site, they have all but mine as usually.
My old bios: 62-0620-001131-00101111-040201-sis740-m841LR
Thanks.

[Ritchie]

The initial release of Windows XP only recognised the first 128GB.

XP SP2 recognises much more - I am running a 200GB disk with no problems and I think it should recognise your 300GB (not sure though).

I am not sure about XP SP1.

The only other thing I should mention is that I installed the 200GB disk as a secondary after installling XP XP2 on a <128GB as a primary. But I still think the O/S install on >128GB with XP SP2 should be no problem.

[Denniss]

AFAIK you need XP with integrated SP1 to access that big HDD. But it should be no problem to install XP obto thw first 128GB, then install SP1 or 2 and then partition the other free space.

[KenH]

I dug out the DVD collection of Bios's saved over time, & found I have
4 bios updates for this board...
020311s.zip
020620s.zip
020809s.zip
020823S.zip

I started archiving Bios's from most MoBo ftp's
a few years ago when I started noticing some were
no longer hosting older Soc3, P1 & 2 systems any more..

[KURIAKI]

Hi guys.
I spent some hours to find FREE bios update for my Socket A MB and nothing.

Here it is:
ftp://64.124.27.138/pcchips/BIOS-n/M841L/020823s.zip