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problem was there before putting on any sort of overlay software, i was using a 2 gig drive in the other system when it was working okay in.

i think it might just be the floppy drive, gonna try tossing in a different one when i have a chance. and yea, its possible the board just dosent like some ...

i hate to say it, but if that were the case, it would be an easy fix, but i probably should have mentioned that this problem was here before the bios update ever took place. I think im going to try changing floppy drives. strange story, this mobo was in a system running win xp before this, and it ...

well, i've been through every setting in bios, many times, even tried playing with a few that i thought might have some effect, if it were as simple as floppy b being enabled, i would have seen that, infact i tried enabling floppy b, and disabling floppy a to see what would happen. I will try ...

i have the floppy connected to to the ribbon after the twist, as far as i know, thats the A drive as i've been connecting floppys that way for years and they always work.

the swap floppy drive in bios is disabled, should it try to enable it?

thats a good idea, i might do that. and as far as the 2 floppy drives goes, nobody seems to know why that i've asked. im not new at this, so all the basics are covered, bios settings, drivers, etc. I've installed windows twice with the drive overlay and earlier without the overlay, exact same ...

so its not possible to enable larger drives with the old vx chipset then?

thats too bad, but its okay, i managed to get windows to recognise the 20 gigs using wd's utilitys. and all seems okay for now

just cant figure out why its showing up as generic ide disk type 46 in device manager, and also ...

here is a link to the bios file on the msi website

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/d ... 199&kind=1

I am trying to have my bios recognise a 20 gig WD hard drive, unsucessfully, as this bios only "sees" 8.4gb. I have updated to the latest bios from the MSI website. The purpose of said bios is apperantly to bring the bios up to y2k standards, and makes no mention of anything else on the website, so ...