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the Bios information on this board in the Bios is :

Award Modular Bios v4.50PG , An Energy Star Ally
Copyright(C) 1984-95 , Award Software , INC .

GREEN PENTIUM PCI SYSTEM BIOS

PENTIUM_S CPU at 100MHz
Memory Test 16384K OK

Award Plug and Play Bios Extension v1.0A
Copyright(C) 1995 , Award Software , INC .

Press DEL to enter SETUP
12/27/95-SIS-5511B-5512-5513-2A51DA1EC-9B

....this Bios is not named in any of the Bios sites I have been to and there is a link to tell someone on one of the sites of Bios not listed there but the link does not work .
edited: contact made with Bios Man
the Bios loaded only lets me use a 4224GB harddrive , the largest partition available to me though LBA 8448GB is available in the Bios . There are 3 options available to choose for a type of harddrive in the Bios . 2(Y) , 1 , 3 .
I put a Maxtor 91021U2 HD in , jumpered and cabled ok .

A very old Abit mainboard - model number should be printed somwhere onto the board.

But I don't think Abit release a new Bios supporting HDD over 8GB

I'm hoping I can use a 10gig hd at 7560mb's .
I've read up and set the hd in the Bios to 7560MB's .
I installed NT on a partion 4000MB's but I've been trying to reinstall because of the error message .
Model Number is PH5 v1.4 and I haven't seen a version 1.4 just a version 1.3 . I'm now looking at updating the Award Bios above 4.50 PG .
I still don't know what I will use this computer for but I'm having a lot of fun trying to use it .
I got to load Windows NT and used it for a while but now I can't boot passed Error Loading OS error message . The HDD Led is red all the time from boot up .
Maybe I just have to wait for the 64mb's of memory that's on it's way .
What about the power led staying red .
I think the hardware is ok .
I think I can put a Gigabyte 4MB graphics card in it , maybe .

lonktwond wrote:12/27/95-SIS-5511B-55112-55113-2A51DA1EC-9B

....this Bios is not named in any of the Bios sites
MEC Abit PH50705C v1.4

OEM Abit PH5 for Micro Equipment Corporation (MEC)

whichever bios is in the system did not let me much over 4gig . I've tried flashing with the Bios but I'm not sure what to name the files at the flash prompts . I think I should be trying awdflashph5e0 at the prompt but the power led is red all the time and I do not know why yet .
no worries now , I will leave the original bios , maybe later I will try an Abit Bios Flash for the Abit PH v1.3 motherboard .