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June 12th, 2002, 04:44 PM
#1
Registered User
Help! Hard drive bios size/mobo issue
Here's the problem:
The motherboard is a Aopen (I know) AX6BC Slot 1 Motherboard. The hard drive is a IBM DTLA-307015 15GB Hdd.
The motherboard was getting a checksum error on boot. I saw that the jumper for clearing the cmos wasn't even on either setting, it was missing. I replaced it on the "normal setting" pins 1-2. After that i got rid of the checksum error.
That isn't the real problem, however:
I can run autodetect hdd option, and the hard drive will come up as 15gb's, in lba mode. I can let it autodetect upon boot to see 15gb.
As soon as the machine actually boots, the bios status screen shows the hdd as a UDMA 2, 528mb hard drive. If you run fdisk, it shows the hard drive as 504mb, with a 14gb partition.
I've changed ide cables, updated the motherboard bios, tried putting the hdd on the seconday chain. I also changed the cmos battery as well. No luck. I also tried a new wd20gb drive, which was seen as the correct size, in bios and in fdisk.
The hard drive makes some weird noises when the machine is first powered on, and i have not tried it in a newer/other machine to try and duplicate the erroneous hard drive size seen in fdisk/dos/win9-whatever.
Originally this machine came in for trouble with the internet. It would lock up immediately after launching outlook express 6.0, or surfing the net for a few minutes.
I am somewhat confused as to why this is happening, anyone got a good idea about the hdd issue? I can't even tell if the windows problems and the hard drive problems are intertwined.
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June 13th, 2002, 10:15 AM
#2
Registered User
Did You try obvious solution - updating the BIOS?
I'm pretty sure, it's an_old_BIOS problem...
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June 13th, 2002, 11:01 AM
#3
Registered User
Never mind...glad You sorted things out... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
Mods, please close that duplicated topic...
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