HP and larger disks

nsa_fever · Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:42 am

ive just bought an old mother board from HP, tu use with my pentium 3 at 500mhz.

but ive got a problem, is seems that the the mother board doesnt suppor large disks (Hard Drives)
and ive got an 80Gigs and other with 40Gigs.

Ive tried to format them with 20gigs partition and still theryre not recognised.

i can not test bios agent within the board beacause i dont have smaller
disks to install SO and put internet... !!

From bios i could read this: Award Software International, Inc. HW.27.08(QHW.08.03)

can it do an update so that the board could support larger disks or not?

can anyone help me??.. please.

pedro from Coimbra, Portugal.

Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:32 am

please read the posting rules. you should at least provide the BIOS ID string that is at the bottom of the screen while the BIOS output shows up...it should look like this: "10/01/1999-i440BX-SMC602-6A69KM3JC-00". please report back with the string.

Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:15 pm

nsa_fever wrote:ive just bought an old mother board from HP, tu use with my pentium 3 at 500mhz.

but ive got a problem, is seems that the the mother board doesnt suppor large disks (Hard Drives)
and ive got an 80Gigs and other with 40Gigs.

Ive tried to format them with 20gigs partition and still they're not recognised.

Have you put the 32GB clip jumper on the drive?

The BIOS you quote sounds like HP Brio BA600 - is that your HP system?

If so, go to the HP website and try the latest (2000) BIOS.

nsa_fever · Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:55 pm

ive tried to read the number from the bios but it seems that is all in black ... when the systems boots the bottom left is all black like the number was erased

nsa_fever · Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:05 pm

the 32gigs clip?? i dont have any manul to the motherboard.. and ive tried to found at the web site of HP.. hp.com to the bios and found nothing..

i tired again pressing the TAB key from keyboard to look to the serial number from the motherboard but the left buttom of the screen where the number should apeerar it shows nothing.. when i boot the system..

nsa_fever · Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:54 pm

some pictures:

nsa_fever · Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:59 pm

ive foun this numbers in the motherbaord and they are:

p/n: D7600-60004
s/n: S6330DK5585361

Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:00 pm

The 32GB jumper needs to be fitted to the HDD, not the motherboard.

Is the motherboard in an HP case? If so, can you confirm the system type?

Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:02 pm

nsa_fever wrote:ive foun this numbers in the motherbaord and they are:

p/n: D7600-60004
s/n: S6330DK5585361

Aha!
Use the HP Brio BAx BIOS from the "Tested patched BIOSes" link in my signature

nsa_fever · Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:08 pm

thankt oy ill try.. just another thing..

whats the name of the program that i can you to flash the bios.. ive just got one from asus can i use it..its called AFLASH.EXE

nsa_fever · Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:10 pm

uniflash

) right? from uniflash.org

Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:15 pm

Uniflash is very flexible; you should also be able to use Aflash.

nsa_fever · Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:11 pm

just bad luck for me..

my new (get if from store yesterday) AC power just said "pufff", doesnt work.. ive got to get to the store tomorrow to get a new one.. so only tomorrow i can try the flash bios!!!

ill say something tomorrow (if it works).. thanks for the help until now.

Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:31 pm

It was well that it didn't go "Puff" during flashing!

nsa_fever · Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:58 pm

no..

the problem was just when i press the button to turn on the power and the power DC just made a noise like was broken or something and didnt turn on

i have not tried yet the flash utility to the board, just tomorrow