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Hi
I bought for the amusing part only, a few days ago, an Intel D865 PERL board. The thing is that my 200 Gb Western Digital is seen as being of 132 Gb max.
Does anybody have the same problem?

Just a few minutes ago I discovered another thing Putting it on auto or hdd detection I get the size of the hdd at boot 2139GB ?!?!?!?, though in bios is ok( i think!?!?): SIZE 61496, CYLS: 7476, HEAD:255, PRECOMP: 0, LANDZ: 29436, MODE: LBA I found on net something like: MAX CYLS: 16,383 HDD:SECT: ...

I did all the ways possible. Ide hdd autodetection, and "Auto" from Standard cmos setup. Ididn't enter them manually 'cause I don't know them.
I'll start looking on the net

I already did that a few days ago, and 10 min ago. The same result. The boot manger from a Windows 2000 installation disk appeared, asking me what do I choose to boot Windows 200 or "previous C:", I chose Windows 2000. After that the loading bar flashed for 1 sec, the display gone blank, and restate...

I just did that! Now I'm getting worried. After flashing the bios, all the HDD's over 33 GB I put Master, though they are detected in bios at their right size, are not bootable. I tried with my cousin's HDD, a Maxtor 40 Gb, and as I said, the board dectects it, but when to boot from it , the pc rest...

I don't get the same message with the jumper on, the fact is I don't get anything. After the CD-RW is detected at startup, it halts forever. Nothing! I'm seriously thinking of formating my drive. Maybe being formated when I installed Xp for the first time, with the jumper on, must be the reason. Wha...

I flashed the bios on this board (Acorp 6bx67) several times, with the "limited" jumper on, using a *.bin I got from a link posted by someone on this forum. Now it's upgraded to v 1.5 C After that everytime I get the same: "missing operating system". I don't think it's the bios to blame, the harddri...