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It said to be a Packard bell multimedia 450k/bm with a packard bell mediastar motherboard

Program: eSupport.com BIOS Agent Version 3.2
BIOS Date: 03/22/99
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 03/22/1999-i440BX-W977-2A69KM4EC
OEM Sign-On: W6147P2 V1.4 032299
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3
Superio: Winbond 977TF rev 0 found at port 3F0h
OS: WinXP
CPU: Pentium III 450 Mhz MAX: 500 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 256K
Memory Installed: 128 MB
Memory Maximum: 64 MB
Memory Slot 01: 128 MB
Memory Slot 02: 0 MB

The bios doesn't detect it at all, just keeps searching for it.
Thanks in advance

There's an untested patched V2.1 Packard Bell BIOS at http://wims.rainbow-software.org/nicks/ or a tested MSI 1.8 http://wims.rainbow-software.org/.
If you want to try the PB version, as usual:
- you flash at your own risk
- read and follow the flash utility instructions.
- we recommend you clear the CMOS ( take notes of how it is set up first if you want) after flashing - use /cc/cd/cp switches with the Award flasher.
- remember that you *may* need to run the HDD manufacturer's utility to reduce the transfer rate of a UDMA66 or UDMA100 drive to UDMA33. See the post "links to ATA mode setting utilities" in the "Collected Wisdom" forum at WIM's BIOS forums.
- if you have already used Disk Manager, EZ-Drive or similar, getting rid of it may be VERY hard. You will probably have to "fdisk /mbr", repartition and reformat the disk and maybe run the manufacturer's utility to reset the disk size.
- remember that FAT32 in Windows 2000 does not allow single partitions over 32GB in size - an operating system which supports NTFS partitions is required.
- remember that for Windows 98 an updated FDISK is required from Microsoft to handle disks over 64GB in size. FORMAT may also have issues displaying the correct size but should work.
**Please note that to simplify the automatic patching process, the disk capacity display has not been patched and the capacity may not be displayed correctly in the configuration report screen or CMOS setup. For example, a 120 Gbyte disc could show as 2139 Mbytes.

**Please report success/failure to Wim's BIOS forums.

It worked!
I picked the untested 2.1 bios bewcause i didn't seem to find a msi 6147 nor a msi 1.8 bios in the tested section, might be because i'm bad at searching.
I put the bios and a vesion of awdflash 4.71 which i renamed to awdflash on a floppy.
Turned of the comp. Took out the battery, shorted between the two battery connectors (because i didn't find a cmos flash jumper). Reinserted the battery. Booted up, pressed alt f2. And then it was done. It even says the disk is a 120g in the bios. No problems at all, booted nicely into xp, no problem with the primary disk beeing a udma 66 and the 120g a ata133.
Thanks for the help!

Thanks for the feedback! The MSI 1.8 BIOS is further down on my page without brackets because it has been tested, but it has not been indexed on the main http://wims.rainbow-software.org page yet.