The latest beta BIOS for the P5A and the P5A-B will recognise large hard drives. I'M running one of each with 40Gb Maxtor discs (Under W98) with no difficulties.(other than the MS related ones!) The BIOS is No 1011.005 and can be downloaded from http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=P5A
Be warned that the ASUS site is probably one of the most annoying that you are likely to come across - it seems to be designed to hide the information you are looking for and each page takes an eternity to load! If you can find your way into the German FTP site things go much quicker. There's also more to choose from. Ian In the interests of economy, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. ----- Original Message ----- From: "todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP-BIOS can't recognize new HD > On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:05 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:33:38 -0500 > > > > todd slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If anybody knows of a good but cheap mobo that will support large hard > > > drives and take an AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED], and at least 512MB RAM, I'm all ears. > > > > Todd, another option be to get an add-on pci ide controller card. > > Since they operate with there own bios they would be able to bypass the > > hd limitations of your mobo bios. > > > > You can find them online for $25 or less. > > > > > > Charles > > That's a great tip, thanks Charles! I'm going to check it out soon as I get > some thorns pulled out! > > Todd > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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