Chaintech Mainboard with 8.4GB HDD problem

BIOS update, EIDE card, or overlay software? (FAQ Hard disk recognition)
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souler
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Hi there,

I´m new here because I have a Bios-problem, and this led me to your website. I have built and set up a few old DOS-PCs to play 3D-games with friends over IPX-network and now one mainboard of this PCs failed. I got a "new" one, but this board has a 8.4GB-Problem. It detects my harddrive (Maxtor Athena 20GB) with only 8.4GB instead of 20. I have a flash programmer and was able to try a few versions from the internet, but they all failed with the same 8.4GB-bug. Also I have tried to copy various blocks from a patched Bios with the same chipset to my bios with a hex-editor, but it was without success.
Here a few parameters:

BIOS: Award Ver. 4.50PG
Board: Chaintech 5IEM M101
Bios-string: 10/20/95 - TRITON - 2A59CC3AC-00
Chipset: Intel 430-FX

If you could help me would make my very lucky :D

Greetings to all
souler
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