BIOS Updates forum

Hi,

I purchased a HDD Maxtor 40 GB D740X . My BIOS recognize a 32 GB HDD.

ASUS Liveupdate give me these informations

ASUS P2B ACPI BIOS revision 1006
Chipset i440BX
Date 10/09/98

If I update my BIOS with this file P2B 1012 (proposed by Liveupdate), the 40 GB of my HDD will be recognize ?

As I'm really new in flashing BIOS, I prefer to use Liveupdate than AFLASH (another Flasher). Is this method secure ????

Thanks,

Bruno

(Excuse my poor English ... )

Bonjour Bruno
Don't worry about the English as long as we can understand you....
I loked at the 1012 BIOS with Rainbow's utility; it says

BIOS ID string: 03/03/00-i440BX-<<P2B>>-00
BIOS OEM string: ASUS P2B ACPI BIOS Revision 1012
INT13h Extensions...Present: Asus-style
=> BIOS already supports HDDs over 32GB (Asus-style)!

It may not support disks over 64 Gb, I don't know, but it looks good for 40Gb.

Good luck!

It will work with HDDs up to 128GB. The latest BIOS is 1014 BETA 002 which I'm currently using.

the latest beta is 1014beta3 (5.8.2002)

ftp.asuscom.de


Jan

Found it an hour before Waiting on the desktop to be flashed
Thanks anyway.