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120GB: 61-1108-001169-00101111-071595-440BX/ZX-1440B000

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:58 am
by biosupgrader
hi i have an old pc that i have added a larger hard drive id like to upgrade the bios (ami) to see a larger hdd (120gb) this is the info i get when i run the bios agent at present its only seeing 65gb

Program: BIOS Agent Version 3.42
BIOS Date: 11/08/99
BIOS Type: American Megatrends
BIOS ID: 61-1108-001169-00101111-071595-440BX/ZX-1440B000
OEM Sign-On: A6156P5 V3.3 110899
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 2
Superio: Winbond 977TF rev 0 found at port 3F0h
OS: WinXP SP2
CPU: Pentium II 450 Mhz MAX: 600 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: No
BIOS ROM Size: 256K
Memory Installed: 256 MB
Memory Maximum: 256 MB
Memory Slot 01: 128 MB
Memory Slot 02: 128 MB

the mother board is ms-6156 ver1 bx7 i believe, is it be possible at all to upgrade this bios to see the full 120gb western digital drive. i already tried the downloaded bios from the site but its award bios if i try keep getting message about winbond not being correct version and the program exits any advice would be much appreciated

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:16 am
by KURIAKI
Maybe it's an OEM Microstar board for NEC, model NEC Ready 95xx?

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:40 pm
by Denniss
It seems the 3.3 Bios is the latest one - it may work only up to 65GB or fully support up to 128GB.

For further information you may want to use the search function with A6156P5 as search object

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:25 am
by biosupgrader
id like to thank you for your time and the trouble you went to for replying to my question, after taking your advice about checking other posts i went the award route upgraded to 1.6 (info found in another post), drive autodected first time sees full 120gb in bios once again your time and patience it has been much appreciated, thank you.

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 4:09 pm
by Denniss
So you replaced the NEC OEM AMI-Bios with the standard MSI Awar Bios ?

Are you able to confirm it works flawless or are there some small problems ?

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:53 pm
by KURIAKI
biosupgrader wrote:after taking your advice about checking other posts i went the award route upgraded to 1.6 (info found in another post)
Are you upgraded from Amibios V3.3 to Award V1.6?

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:03 pm
by biosupgrader
http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopi ... ht=a6156p5

pc is in a plane case, i was only going by info on the mboard itself and taking a chance :twisted: ... but i backed up the bios that was on the board just in case, above post is where i got the info from it worked a treat for me :lol: now im wondering if there is a limitation on the bios at 137gb :? everything seems to be working have checked a few times all biso settings are still same as when flashed