120GB: 09/21/2000-i440BX/ZX-977-2A69KPABC-00

BIOS update, EIDE card, or overlay software? (FAQ Hard disk recognition)
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Gateke
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I bought today a Maxtor 120 Gb, but unfortunately my bios don't recognize it. I have an Epox motherboard.

BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID 09/21/2000-i440BX/ZX-977-2A69KPABC-00
BIOS OEM Signon 09/20/2000 For i440BX/ZX AGPset

I've asked at Epox but they dont do bios upgrade any more for this board.
Also i've installed Tualatin 1.2 Ghz but bios 'sees' it as a Celeron 333 Mhz (i think)

Ps: ive got also a Hd of 80 Gb Bios recognize drive .

Any help will be more than welcom :D

Greetings

Thibaud alias Gateke
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Rainbow
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That BIOS already supports HDDs up to 128GB. Make sure you have the jumpers set properly.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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Gateke
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Well Rainbow I put the new Hd on master configuration and unplugging other hd,but still Bios doesnt recognize it.

I suppose there isnt a bios upgrade for my bios. :(
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Make sure all jumpers are set in the correct way - with an 80 wire IDE-UDMA cable try cabel select on the drives but make sure the blue/red end is connected to your mainboard and the black end is connected to your master drive
If your Bios had IDE-detecting BUGs then it would hang while trying to detect the drive
If your Bios does not find your drive then something is damaged - mainboard or cable or HDD
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Gateke
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Denniss,

I tried to set my new hd as master and as slave, but every time the bios dont recognize it. It Says NONE instead of Maxtor ...
By the way its the new model Maxtor Diamondmax plus 9 7200 rpm with 8mb cache. Maybe my bios dont support that new hd.

When i put my old hd of 80gb again in place then it worked perfectly
So theres nothing damaged.

I m sure bios needs an update, but is there one?

Ps: when i used the bios wizard program for running the tests ,
i see one exclamation point before SMBIOS (DMI) Test and the Comment
says "BIOS supports minimum version 2.2 Latest version 2.3"
What should i do for upgrading to version 2.3 ? Would that help?
Or

Thanx again for helping :wink:

Gateke
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Try the new drive on the same cable position with the same Master/Slave setting as the 80GB drive

If the Bios does not find anything then your HDD is dead > Does it spin-up ?
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Gateke
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Well

I guess that my new bought hd didnt had a long time to live :cry:

Its not spinning up when i start up the computer.

Well Thanx for help Denniss.
I will change that hd for a new one.

Greetings

Gateke
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