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by cwlitt
Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:02 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB:06/26/1998-SiS-5591-SMC6-2A5IKJ19C-00
Replies: 7
Views: 4880

80GB:06/26/1998-SiS-5591-SMC6-2A5IKJ19C-00

Unfortunately still no luck with alternative bios. This time the machine doesn't stall but auto detects 80GB as 33816MB but shows it as 2114MB in the system config. summary at end of POST. I can partition and format it but 2.1GB is a lot less than 80GB. I tried entering the paramaters manually in CM...
by cwlitt
Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:40 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB:06/26/1998-SiS-5591-SMC6-2A5IKJ19C-00
Replies: 7
Views: 4880

80GB:06/26/1998-SiS-5591-SMC6-2A5IKJ19C-00

Dear AJZchips, Thanks for the patched bios but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. I flashed it with awdflash and the flash process seemed to work OK without errors but the 80GB drive still causes the machine to stall. Using the patched bios with the old drive gives a size of 0 during auto detect...
by cwlitt
Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:03 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB:06/26/1998-SiS-5591-SMC6-2A5IKJ19C-00
Replies: 7
Views: 4880

80GB:06/26/1998-SiS-5591-SMC6-2A5IKJ19C-00

I'm trying to install an 80GB HDD in my old computer and it stalls during the boot process, presumably due to the Award bios HDD size detection limitation. If anyone could supply a patched bios to overcome this I would be gratefull. The Bios Agent information is: Program: eSupport.com BIOS Agent Ver...