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I have a mainboard :
ECS P5SD-B+ Ver 1.1k 03/11/1999
03/05/1999-vVP3-586B-W877-P5SD-9

But I can't use my 120G hitachi HD.
And I can't find bios from this site for 120G HD.

Does anyone know where to find the bios supported 120GB?
Or How I can do?

Thanks ....

here is my bios image & flash.exe

http://umedia.myweb.hinet.net/aflash77.exe
http://umedia.myweb.hinet.net/sdbp11k.bin

Certainly patchable...if it's not already been done it will be at the "untested" link in my signature in about 10 minutes.

NickS,

Thanks for your help so soon.
I will go to check it.

But What's different between tested & untested?
And when will become tested?
If I need to wait it to tested or I can download the untested version to flash my bios?

Does any serious problem occur?


Thanks again.


Jackie

Hi Jackie

>But What's different between tested & untested?
Tested is known to work, untested is untested.

>And when will become tested?
>If I need to wait it to tested

We can modify the bios, but we need the board to test it. As we usually don't own the board, we have to wait until someone (you?) pops up which is brave enough to install the Bios we have modified at his own risk.

>or I can download the untested version to flash my bios?
That is what we are hoping, you are going to do

>Does any serious problem occur?
Usually, no.
IMHO I'd install the original unpatched version first, if not already done. If it works, I'd go for the patched.

Bye
Thomas

Jackie,

I have a patched and tested ECS P5SD-B+ Ver 1.1k 03/11/1999 BIOS on my site. This patched BIOS works fine with a 120GB drive. Check the link below and download the file P5sdbpj2.zip

Greetings,
Jan.

Thanks BiosMan

I'll download it and try it .


And I will try NickS's version for test when I will update it.



jackie

BiosMan wrote:Jackie,

I have a patched and tested ECS P5SD-B+ Ver 1.1k 03/11/1999 BIOS on my site. This patched BIOS works fine with a 120GB drive. Check the link below and download the file P5sdbpj2.zip

Greetings,
Jan.

Aaargh! I'll remove mine. I check all the ones here and forget your "other" site.

BiosMan,

I have tested this bios with Hitachi 120GB HDD.
But I can't enter the WINXP after I install the WINXP.

But, Everything is ok when installing.
And then it need to reboot to enter winxp.
I have had try 3 times, each time is the same, It can't enter WINXP.

The HDD is auto detection as you said.
and the partitions on HDD are partitioned by another computer that support 120GB HDD.

Can't the HDD bigger than 32GB use as Mater HDD.
I just only connect only one HDD (120G), I want to use it as the boot disk.

DO you know ohw to solve it.

Thanks.

Patched with BP's utility. Check my signature for the "beta" BIOSes.

Jackie - You mention the HDD partitioning was done on another machine.

Although I am unsure if this would be contributing to your problem, when transferring a drive from one machine to another, in particular when making it a boot drive on the new machine, I consider it good practise to backup everything up, wipe it clean and start from scratch.

If you have backed up everything on all partitions on this drive and are happy to do a clean install, the Windows XP setup should allow new to install a new instance of Windows on the drive, with partition management in the process. (If you are happy to delete everything on all partitions on the drive, you can actually delete each of the partitions, and then choose to setup on the unpartitioned space which will create a partition for you, format the drive, transfer boot files and install Windows all automatically).

I suspect your problem has something to do with the HDD boot which sounds to me like some form of software corruption or at least a software problem.

Ritchie,

Thanks, I try to move all the data from that HDD to others.
And then partition this HDD as I wish on other computer supported 120GB HDD.

And I preserve a partition for WinXP.
When install, I use the XP' procedure to delete this partition and then rebuild it using XP, And format slowly.

Now, this HDD is completely clean.
And then I finish the installation.

NOw I success to enter WinXP, Thanks everybody.

Glad it works nicely now.

I picked up on one of your entries in this thread that software was installed when the drive was in another computer, and that the drive was then transferred to the computer that you want to use it on. I suspected this had something to do with the problem.