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motherboard - hard drive size limit
Posted:
Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:57 amby leeegglestone
I have a MSI 7025 motherboard
i have been looking for an upgrade bios/patch so that it accepts higher hard drives. at present its about 137gb i think.
rather than getting an new motherboard as it has room for a better cpu i thought id try and update the bios.
I cant find an update which will make it take higher harddrives, any ideas?
Tried here
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/bios_result.asp
Posted:
Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:00 pmby Gecko
Please be aware that there are two models with that number (MS-7025)
model K8N Neo2 Platinum (MS-7025) and model K8N_Neo2-F (MS-7025)
Make sure you have the right one if you try and update your BIOS!
This is not a BIOS issue it is a windows xp issue that was fixed with sp1;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013/en-us
Posted:
Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:14 pmby leeegglestone
i have the K8N Neo2 Platinum
hmmm i have service pack 2 installed
would i only see the difference on the hard drive, the next time its reformatted/partitioned etc?
Posted:
Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:26 amby icecube
Check to see if your board has the VIA chipset.
I know that the Intel chip set coupled with XP SP1 allows you to see drives bigger than 140 meg on the older boards, and I also know that older VIA chipset boards need a hard drive pci card to get past 140 barrier. From my experience, the Service Pack 1 fix only works for Intel chip sets.
Posted:
Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:16 pmby peahead
i have the same problem i got a gigabyte/via motherboard...anyone no how i can sort this out? ive got sp2 installed and im running xp anymore questions just ask
Posted:
Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:42 amby icecube
From the desktop, right click on My Computer and select Manage. Go to Disk Managment and select the C drive.
Does XP see the real size of the drive--ie the part you are using and the part that you are missing?
Bear in mind that a 120 gig hard drive will list as about 111gig only because of the way it is counted 1000 vs 1024 per meg