80GB : 03/10/1999-i440BX-ITE867-2A69KV3IC

BIOS update, EIDE card, or overlay software? (FAQ Hard disk recognition)
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velo
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hello guys,
I bought a 80gb western digital hdd and wanna install it in my spare pc. However, when the computer booted, at the part where it detects devices on primary IDE master, slave and all that stuff, they can detect the primary master (my 3gb drive which has winxp installed) but when it comes to primary slave, it just stopped there and i have to press F4 to skip it. Is there any ways i can get my motherboard to recognise my drive? Or is there any bios i can flash? cuz i dunno what my mobo manufacturer is... all i have is this

03/10/1999-i440BX-ITE867-2A69KV3IC


Thanks guys for the trouble... :(
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velo
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More info :

Program: Unicore BIOS Agent Version 2.01
BIOS Date: 03/10/99
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 03/10/1999-i440BX-ITE867-2A69KV3IC
BIOS Eval: BIOS-I-2M (90310)
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3
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ajzchips
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That's a PCPARTNER board.

http://www.pcpartner.com/bios/i440.htm#440bx

Look for your PCB ID (check the mobo) and/or compare the pictures (see camera icon) and then download the latest BIOS.
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Rainbow
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It it's ATX board, get http://www.pcpartner.com/bios_zip/p829-2m.zip and use B1120IAG.BIN file inside:
11/20/2000-440BX-ITE8671-2A69KV3IC-00
BIOS-I-2M (2K001120)

If it's AT board, get http://www.pcpartner.com/bios_zip/p847-2m.zip. That BIOS has the same ID string but has some differences inside.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
UniFlash - Flash anything anywhere
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velo
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Thanks man... i go try.... :?
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velo
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Hey it works! Thanks a million, guys! Alright manz, tt solved the problem, but another cropped up. Now the pc is able to detect it, and i am able to create partition (1 partition only, taking up the full space). But when i format it in dos, i see the following :-

Formatting 10,772.71M
56%

But i thought its supposed to be about 76+GB? Why is there just 10GB? Can help me out once again? Thanks a lot for the trouble... :D


Btw i used this to flash my bios, which is the one u all found for me :-
http://www.pcpartner.com/bios_zip/p829-2m.zip

And i used B1120IAG.BIN as instructed. Is there any patch or something? Thanks again... :o
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Rainbow
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FDISK in Windows 98 has a bug with drives over 64GB - there's a update at Microsoft. There's also a bug in FORMAT - it shows wrong size but formats the full size correctly.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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velo
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hey u r right! It showed a wrong size during format, but when i boot to windows, it shows the correct size... thanks again... :P
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