BIOS Updates forum

No, I didn't use a drive overlay as it was'nt needed on the previous mobo. I think I solved it though. after updateing the bios to 1011.005, I removed the jumper to select master instead of the jumper to select 32GBlimit. I noticed this because suddenly the drive was detected as a slave. I also repl...

This is what I actually did when this error started to appear: I had a computer with a very slow mobo (sis530 chipset) I was running win2000 on it on the 40GB disk. then I got this asus mobo from a friend. So I updated the bios, changed the mobo's, installed windows 2000 again after formating the fi...

Hmmm, Ok, the update solved the 32GB problem, but the "format" problem is still there.

any ideas what might be causing this?

Johan

Hello, I have an asus P5A mobo. There were 2 BIOS-updates available. It's an award BIOS. the old BIOS ID was 12/17/98-ALADDIN5-<<P5A>>-00 that was BIOS revision 1005. I upgraded to BIOS-revision 1007a ( bios date: 07/16/99) There was also revision 1011.005 (beta 5). Version 1007a still didn't suppor...

it's not because the computer is becoming more and more unstable, that you can conclude that you have a virus! I would think it's a heat problem!
Check your hardware monitors in the BIOS or use eg SiSoft Sandra to check the temperature.

OK, thanks!

Hi, I have an ASUS P5A rev. 1.04 mobo, with award bios (sorry, can't give ID yet...) v4.51 and ALI Aladin V 1541 chipset with 1543c IDE-controller. I'm planning to upgrade the bios, because I want to install my Seagate 40GB harddisk, but the bios has the well-known 33,8GB-limit. I was wondering abou...