120GB: 01/17/2000-694X-686A-2A6LJAB9C-00

BIOS update, EIDE card, or overlay software? (FAQ Hard disk recognition)
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Odin69
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Award Modular BIOS V4.60 PGA, An Energy Star Ally
Copyright (c) 1984-99, Award Software, Inc.
S61 R03-F0 Jan.17.2000 Acer Inc.

Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension V1.0a
Copyright (c) 1998, Award Software, Inc.

01/17/2000-694X-686A-2A6LJAB9C-00

ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A6LJAB9)
Product name AS6400
System BIOS Version 4.60 PGMA
System BIOS ID R03-F0
DMI BIOS Version 2.2


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I have a 120 gig drive from SamSung, but my bios is outdated so it can only read 32 gig cap only when i have the jumper on.
When i try to boot it up without the jumper as a Slave drive, my system froze. If you can please be so kind and help me to find an upgrade for my BIOS so it can read the 120 drive without the 32 gig cap on.

Im running on windows 2000 pro on an AcerAspire 6400

Thank You for reading.
Odin69
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http://www.acer.com.sg/support/files/Ac ... /r03f2.exe
http://www.acer.com.sg/support/files/ac ... 0/bios.zip

these are the 2 BIOS upgrade file that i found at Acer, but im not sure which one to use, or if both of them isn't correct, please recommend the one that you think is right.


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Odin69
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Sorry, I forgot to mention in detail my hard drive.

Samsung EIDE 120GB 5400rpm HDD, 2MB Cache
Interface: IDE
Capacity: 120 GB Spin: 5400 RPM
Transfer: 100 MB/s Seek Time : 7 ms
Cache: 2000 MB
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r03f2.exe contains the binary S6103F2.bin with a modification date of 05 July 2000:
S61 R03-F2 Jul.05.2000 Acer Inc.
07/05/2000-694X-686A-2A6LJAB9C-00


bios.zip contains the binary S6103E3.bin with a modification date of 17 November 1999
S61 R03-E3 Nov.11.1999 Acer Inc.
11/11/1999-694X-686A-2A6LJAB9C-00


I suggest as you have the S61 R03-F0 BIOS you should upgrade using r03f2.exe. This should support HDD up to 128GiB.
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