80Gb: 4/12/1999-VP3-586B-W877-2A5LEF09C-00

BIOS update, EIDE card, or overlay software? (FAQ Hard disk recognition)
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evil_Homer
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Hi.
My Maxtor 80GB hard disk (4D080H04) cannot be detected by my VIA 503+ motherboard 4/12/1999-VP3-586B-W877-2A5LEF09C-00.
Award Modular BIOS v4.60PGA

when entering information manualy 16383 cylinders 16 heads 63 sectors,
i only get 8455mb.
I played around with the jumpers, on some strange setting the BIOS can read the drive as 32GB.

Current BIOS is 1.15JE36
have gone to FIC website http://www.fic.com.tw/techsupport/drive ... =VA-503%2B
and downloaded newst BIOS JE439 (5/23/00)
after flashing, no help. still crash when auto-detecting.

any ideas?

thanks
georgep
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There is a beta BIOS talked about in the 503+ FAQ at:

http://www.fic.com.tw/techsupport/faq/faqs01va-503+.htm

that appears to take care of it.
evil_Homer
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Thanks georgep! New bios flashed, all 80Gb on line.
:D
*** off topic *** i installed a new copy of win98. PnP moniter, viper V550
video card, everytime i try to run an mpeg file, the screen flash and goes black (as if going into full screen mode) i see my mouse pointer, but no sound or video. have tried mediaplay 6.4 and 7.1 no change. whats the deal? *** if you don't want to answer her maybe point me another channel or site ***
thanks
georgep
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Not sure about that. I'd try:

the latest Via 4in1 drivers from www.viaarena.com ?
later nvidia drivers (depending on what you have loaded now).
making sure the video card is not sharing an IRQ with any other peripheral.
www.nvnews.net for video card questions.
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