40GB: FIC PAG-2130

nicosteel · Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:40 pm

hello been trying to get 40 gb hdd to work on this pc and think i need to do upate to bios as the disk canno0t be read.

The bios is from october 1999
Award bios v4.51PG
Vers. SA411G5 (390-M01GB)

MOBO name FIC
FIC PAG-2130

chipset VIAVT8501 Apollo MVP4

please help while i try and locate the correct bios

i seem to be a bit thick and can't work it out

Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:55 pm

ftp://ftp.fica.com/BIOS/motherboards/Socket7/pag-2130/

You'll need to know your PCB revision.

nicosteel · Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:00 pm

soupy wrote:ftp://ftp.fica.com/BIOS/motherboards/Socket7/pag-2130/

You'll need to know your PCB revision.

PCB?

Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:10 pm

ftp://ftp.fica.com/BIOS/motherboards/So ... b_bios.txt

Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:59 pm

As there's already a SA-type Bios in use this Bios should be correct and the latest available version :
ftp://ftp.fica.com/BIOS/motherboards/So ... SA4124.ZIP

nicosteel · Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:58 pm

Denniss wrote:As there's already a SA-type Bios in use this Bios should be correct and the latest available version :
ftp://ftp.fica.com/BIOS/motherboards/So ... SA4124.ZIP

Thanks for the speedy reply....i got the HDD recognised after a bios lflash, last night........not too sure that CMOS is picking up the HDD correctly though but windows XP has installed and all seems to be working. i,m sure that i've d/l'ed the above BIOS and Flashed it in.

I did have similar probems with a p6i440lx bios that is on my PII..untill i BIOS flashed. so the 40gb HDD could be recognised ..but, still the HDD could not bet set up using LBA for some reason or other......I set all to AUTO and it worked....what's confusing me though is that i tried using AUTO on the pc that i've been trying to install and all i got was a system disk failure....i had to let thee HDD muddle through NORMAL setting instead of LBA or AUTO...is there something that you think i've missed?