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AOpen AX63 - maximum cpacity?

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 9:17 pm
by evilwillow
What is the maximum HDD capacity for AOpen AX63 (not Pro) motherboards with Award R1.29 BIOS (respectively R1.30), please? I haven't been able to find an answer on the Aopen website nor with google. :(

http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/mb/AX63.htm
http://club.aopen.com.tw/downloads/defa ... model=AX63

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 10:18 pm
by ajzchips
Your answer is on the second link you provided :?

Reading the release notes is a very good idea... always... :!:

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 10:22 pm
by Rainbow
128GB (maybe more but I doubt).

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 10:22 pm
by evilwillow
Where? :?:

R1.30 English 198KB 2002/10/21
Chechsum E79Ch
Fixed WIndows XP/Administrator Tools/Event Viewer/ACPI error marked.
Supports EzRestore.


R1.29 English 196KB 2000/12/21
Checksum 9B45h
Displays CPU front side bus frequency and clock ratio seperately on POST screen.
No longer supports CPU ratio x2 and x2.5.
Fixed malfunction of serial mouse after resuming from suspend (Not every brand of mouse can work properly; Logitech mouse is recommended)


R1.28 English 196KB 2000/08/18
Checksum B7FFh
Supports Cyrix III CPU.
Updates microcodes for Coppermine CPU.


R1.27 English 193KB 2000/07/04
Checksum 43A5h
Correction of CPU detection: Reports 900MHz instead of 901MHz for Coppermine 900(100x9).
No longer displays 'B' or 'E' for Coppermine 128K (Celeron) CPU.
Reports 800 for Coppermine 800/100 instead of 800E.
Adds suffix 'A' to Coppermine128K 533MHz CPU.


R1.26 English 193KB 2000/05/31
Checksum 2DEEh
Adds "Boot Up Floppy Seek" , "Typematic Rate Setting" , " Typematic Rate (Chars/sec)", "Typematic Delay(Msec)" in BIOS feature Setup.
Fixes when there's no PS2 mouse connected the OS (APM, eg. Win 98, DOS...) can't shutdown.


R1.24 English 193KB 2000/04/18
Checksum 4FD2h
Fixes incorrect size detection of some SDRAM at DIMM slot #3 (eg. Apacer 128MB single side, chip: WINBOND )
Changes ACPI vversion from 1.00 to 1.00B to install Win98 SE and Win2000 in ACPI mode by default.
Updates CPU microcodes.
Supports ZIP 250 devices.
Supports Wake_On_Mouse for 4 frame PS2 mouse.

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:04 pm
by ajzchips
R1.19 English 275KB 1999/09/29
Supports Win2000 CD bootable function.
Supports IDE detection of HDD larger than 136GB.
Supports PCI routing table for 596 series following chipset manufacturer's suggestion.
Binary file ax63119.bin, checksum 0386h

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:22 pm
by Rainbow
Woow :)

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 4:10 am
by ajzchips
Which could be pure BS, as you can imagine, Rainbow, considering the release date... :?

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 10:26 am
by Rainbow
Could be...

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 11:09 am
by evilwillow
Thanks for your help!