80GB : 06/16/1998-i440BX-W977-2A69KM4AC-00

[flezadoza]

Hi, I have an old PC that I'm trying to keep useful with a new Maxtor 80GB hard drive. I've set it as slave and tried running the EX-BIOS program that
comes with it to no avail. The BIOS and Windows only recognises 33 GB.
I believe its a Microstar MS-6119-HW motherboardbased on what I could find.
I tried Microstar's homepage but found no bios updates for this board.
Can someone help me with a bios update or a lead as to what to do next.


Pentium II running Win '98
Award Modular BIOS v4.51
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 2

[NickS]

Don't worry about the "-HW", that usually defines the OEM that MSI sold the board through. The important thing is which version of 6119 board you have - either "CPU plug'n'play" which is supposed to interrogate the CPU to find out the settings, or the version where the CPU setup is determined by switches or jumpers.

[flezadoza]

How do find out if it's plug and play or requires switches??

[flezadoza]

I ran sisoft and the motherboard model is w6119ms v 2.1 081198
I opened the case and the motherboard says ms6119 v1.1 bx2
Looking at the setup program, I don't see a special features setup option
which should have let me set the cpu speed. So I think this board uses
dip switches.

[Denniss]

6119 Rev 1.1 is standard mainboard
6119 Rev 1.2 and up is PnP one

The PnP Mainboard has MS-6119MJ instead of the MS6119MS your Board has in the ID-string

so you have the MS-6119 "Standard" mainboard with DIP-switches

http://download.msi.com.tw/support/bos_exe/w6119s2a.exe