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80GB: 07/01/1999-692-596-W977-2A6LGM4EC-00

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 2:27 pm
by keiler
hey guys,
i recently bought a new wd 80 gb drive, but as you can expect from my topic it does not really work with my bios. it seems to me that it has to do with the 32 and / or 64 gb bug. as there are no bios upgrades for MS-6163va Mainboards (yet ?), i decided to ask here if you guys could help me out.

Bios Wizard gave me those informations:

BIOS Manufacturer: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 07/01/1999-692-596-W977-2A6LGM4EC-00
BIOS Date: 07/01/99
BIOS ROM Size: 256K
BIOS OEM Signon: VMP 1.0B6f * MSI MS-6163VA
Chipset: VIA 82C597 rev 6
Super I/O Chip: Winbond 83977EF found at port 3F0h

i downloaded a bios from, but it looks the same i have on there right now (stupid me lol):
ftp://ftp.maxdata.de/MAXDATA_Computers/ ... MS-6163VA/

by the way, i searched for similar problems in here, but all i found was some guy having the same problem like me, just with another bios OEM singon.

thx for your help!
greetz, keiler

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 2:38 pm
by NickS
I'll take a look at patching that right now....

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:00 pm
by NickS
Patched and sent. Please give us feedback !

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:34 pm
by keiler
perfect :D

first i thought that it wont work bc it still showed me that my hd has only 32 gb, but after removing ez-bios by western digital, it worked very well.
thx for your work man, really good job!

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:39 pm
by NickS
Thanks for the feedback!

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 11:43 pm
by Denniss
Just for Info : This bios ist for 6163VA Rev 1.x - OEM-only board

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:08 am
by keiler
hey, its me again.
some software on windows 98 already had a cpl of problems with recognizing my 80 gb harddisk. i just reinstalled everything, this time with windows server 2003. This OS uses my hd again only as a 32 gb drive. i dont know if this is the right forum for that problem, but BIOS also shows me my drive (even after the patch) as a 32 gb drive. win98 just still used it as a 80 gb drive. does anyone know how to solve that problem?

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:38 am
by Rainbow
Make sure that you have the jumpers on the HDD configured properly - so 32GB clipping must be disabled.

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 12:39 pm
by keiler
ok, im gonna try that one.
thx again

(by the way: im born in slovakia, bratislava...so nice to see someone from my home country :D)

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:05 am
by edwin
Maybe fdisk from server 2003 has the same problem as windows 2000, no partitions over 32GB if you choose FAT. Try using NTFS...

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 10:39 am
by keiler
yeah, that was a lil bug too. had to download a new fdisk.exe from microsoft. but it was mainly bc of my jumper setting. before the bios upgrade he didnt recognize my hd at all, so i had to set those jumpers in another way. ok, so everything works 100% now ;)
thx for your help!