60GB: MS 6163 VA

BIOS update, EIDE card, or overlay software? (FAQ Hard disk recognition)
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Sabine Durchholz
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Hello!

I have a MS 6163VA mobo and an new 60 GB HDD. Because the old bios didn't reconize the HDD, I surfed to the MSI taiwan site and got myself a new bios. When I rebooted, I got the funny "no 80 conductor cable message". I now know, that I got the bios for the MS 6199 board. Probably a mistake on that site!! :x My old board has two ISA slots, both with scsi adapter for different scanners. When I'm lucky I get one scanner working. I think it's the fault of the new bios. To cut that story short:
Is there somewhere an award bios for the MS 6163 VA board that is able to manage 60 GB HDD's?? :cry: Please help!!
Thanks a lot!
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Denniss
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Just to add MS6163VA Rev 1.x is the revision number(OEM-Board- MSI Germany lists Maxdata as Bios supplier).
Board has UDMA33 support and the newer/installed Bios is for Rev2.x aka MS6199 .
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The BIOS ID strings are the same 8O
Here are some old BIOSes http://www.microstar.ru/support/bios/bi ... =MS-6163VA
I can patch one of them (which one do you want?) to support HDDs over 32GB.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
UniFlash - Flash anything anywhere
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Denniss
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The problem is the newer Board uses UDMA66 (with 596B Southbridge) and the old one is UDMA33(with 596A Southbridge I think) and the no 80 conductor cable message won't disappear but the cable is installed as it should be .
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