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80GB: intel se440bx-2

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:22 pm
by cypher007
help i have a se440bx-2 running p17 bios but it still only sees my deskstar 120gxp as a 65535mb drive. any ideas?

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:33 pm
by NickS
Tried the 15-head jumper setting (clutching at straws)?

nope but

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:58 pm
by cypher007
ive checked winxp and its recognising the full 80gb wierd or what.

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:23 am
by Ritchie
I think Windows 2000 and XP bypass the hard drive size set in the BIOS and use as much as the O/S can rather than as much as the BIOS can.

However, I don't think your problem is due to a BIOS limitation. Sounds more like a setting as Nick suggests.