One of the most useful sites of this nature I've found is www.ping.be/bios.
There were specific information about BIOS upgrades and revisions, system
board manufacturers and more. You may have to search for your information
but it's probably there.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Abraham E Mandac Jr
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 9:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] need hard disk buying advice
>
>
> I was about ready to buy a 15 GB hard disk but then I read
> somewhere that I
> should first make sure that my BIOS can handle a disk of that capacity.
>
> My question is: could somebody give me a rough ceiling on hard drive
> capacity that can be handled by this sytem:
> Pentium II 300 MHz on an ASUS P2E-M motherboard, with 64 MB RAM
>
> I've exhausted the motherboard's manual and the ASUS website [which says
> next to nothing about any of their downloadable BIOSes], and I'm about to
> go nuts from reading as much as I can on hard drives and BIOSes, but I'm
> still unable to nail the specifics on my system [do I even have to, in the
> first place?].
>
> I've run across a lot of conflicting opinions about whether my
> system could
> handle anything larger than 8 gig. None of the people I've talked to
> face-to-face seem to know for sure, though.
>
> I apologize if this isn't exactly Linux-related. But I need a new hard
> drive soon on which to install LM so I can get started :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Abe Mandac
>
>
