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From: CBFalconer on 29 May 2005 11:26 kony wrote: > .... snip ... > > Check the bios notes- I'd expect there's a bios that handles > up to at least 128GB HDDs, but I don't know it for certain. > I am pretty confident there's one for over 8GB though, it > may've supported that even with first bios released. > > You might consider downloading and archiving all the > available bios, as I vaguely recall that board was able to > run Coppermine Celeron or P3 (socket 370 type) with an > appropriate slotket adapter. It "might" be able to run a > slot 1 Coppermine P3 too. For that matter, with appropriate > adapter (self-modified or a Powerleap) it might even run a > Tualatin Celeron up to 1.4GHz. Nothing seems to say. I tried to get the last issued bios, which appears to be stepping 17 (the installed one is stepping 15), but nothing comes over. -- Some informative links: news:news.announce.newusers http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
From: kony on 29 May 2005 12:16
On Sun, 29 May 2005 15:26:53 GMT, CBFalconer <cbfalconer(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >kony wrote: >> >... snip ... >> >> Check the bios notes- I'd expect there's a bios that handles >> up to at least 128GB HDDs, but I don't know it for certain. >> I am pretty confident there's one for over 8GB though, it >> may've supported that even with first bios released. >> >> You might consider downloading and archiving all the >> available bios, as I vaguely recall that board was able to >> run Coppermine Celeron or P3 (socket 370 type) with an >> appropriate slotket adapter. It "might" be able to run a >> slot 1 Coppermine P3 too. For that matter, with appropriate >> adapter (self-modified or a Powerleap) it might even run a >> Tualatin Celeron up to 1.4GHz. > >Nothing seems to say. I tried to get the last issued bios, which >appears to be stepping 17 (the installed one is stepping 15), but >nothing comes over. It does appear that v16 added several APCI power management support features for Win2k & newer, among other more trivial changes. It would be good to have at least v16, might as well make it v17. Your browser is probably unsupportive of the download mechanism or is overly restricted for security reasons. You can get it here, BIOS 17, file CRC 1EC35AA7 http://69.36.189.159/usr_1034/SE2BIO17.EXE Release Notes http://69.36.189.159/usr_1034/RNOTE171.pdf Considering the release data was Sept. '00, it would be very unusual for it to not support at least up to 128GB HDD, you might go ahead and connect the drive and see what the bios reports. Note that with Win2k or XP, installing the newer bios might require (or at least for the benefit of the bios changes to be in effect) reinstalling the operating system. I dont' think that applies to Win9x, don't know about other OS. IIRC Win9x had some method of changing APM power management to ACPI after installed, it required a registry change and something else (perhaps going through the Add/Remove Hardware, "search for..." routine. I don't recall all the details but Google should be able to find them. |