I installed a 80GB HD and the drive is not recognized.
Motherboard MS-6118
Motherboard ID: 61-0814-001169-00111111-071595-440LX
BIOS Type: American Megatrends
Motherboard Chipset: Intel 440EX/LX rev3
Superio:Winbond 977TF rev 0 found at port 3F0h
Thanks in advance for any help.
80GB :61-0814-001169-00111111-071595-440LX
A BIOS upgrade MAY offer 80GB; but as a matter of fact, I think, probably not.
With that chipset, depending on the manufacturer and how much they put into the BIOS upgrades they make available, you might get to 80GB but if you do I am sure you will be pushing it. I recently installed a 40GB drive on a Gigabyte board thinking it may not recognise 60GB - it would have supported 60GB but not 80GB. And this was with the newer BX chipset.
The experience with the 40GB hard drive also was surprising - the drive would not even detect before the BIOS upgrade. I thought the drive would detect but only up to the limit supported by the previous BIOS.
With that chipset, depending on the manufacturer and how much they put into the BIOS upgrades they make available, you might get to 80GB but if you do I am sure you will be pushing it. I recently installed a 40GB drive on a Gigabyte board thinking it may not recognise 60GB - it would have supported 60GB but not 80GB. And this was with the newer BX chipset.
The experience with the 40GB hard drive also was surprising - the drive would not even detect before the BIOS upgrade. I thought the drive would detect but only up to the limit supported by the previous BIOS.
@Ritchie: excuse me, but you are wrong. Take a look at the list of tested patched Award BIOSes and you'll find several LX chipset boards supporting up to 137GB (128GiB).
@imal: The latest AMI BIOS released by MSI for the MS-6118 is 1.4, available from http://www.msi-computer.de/produkte/pro ... rod_id=125. The message it puts in the top left of the memory count screen is A6618MS V1.4B 011598 . What message does yours provide ?
At the main site
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/d ... 308&kind=1 there is an Award BIOS which is also quite old:
@imal: The latest AMI BIOS released by MSI for the MS-6118 is 1.4, available from http://www.msi-computer.de/produkte/pro ... rod_id=125. The message it puts in the top left of the memory count screen is A6618MS V1.4B 011598 . What message does yours provide ?
At the main site
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/d ... 308&kind=1 there is an Award BIOS which is also quite old:
This does appear to be patchable to support large HDD, but that would be at your own risk. (Thinks: I may have this board in a drawer at work). Would you like to try this? The alternative is an add-in board with its own BIOS (Promise, Maxtor, etc)BIOS ID string: 02/12/98-i440LX-W977-2A69JM49C-00
BIOS OEM string: W6118MS V1.1 041498
INT13h Extensions...Present: new-style
New-style code found at 3524
=> 32GB bug patched successfully
Tested patched BIOSes. Untested patched BIOSes.
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