[BC] RE: A Puzzling Computer Problem

[Ron Cole]

My experience was the older BIOS's would not recognize the larger drive for
what it was.
a 100gb showed up at a 74gb HD.  This was a machine I built the night of
12/31/99.
Turned out there was a Flash update for the BIOS and all was well after
that.

Got to watch old machines and large drives.


Ron



On 12/5/05, Vernon Kuehn <vkuehn at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> There is one possible problem that has not been mentioned.  Some of
> the symptoms you have listed seem to go beyond what havoc this
> problem can cause, but when it happened to me it was close to what
> you are describing.
>
> Older machines, maybe as new as 5 years,  have a BIOS that supports
> only smaller hard drives.  Depending on who made the motherboard  and
> who made the BIOS,  the results can vary:  Put in a 40GB drive in a
> machine that supports up to 32GB and it will sometimes refuse to boot
> period.... does not recognize the drive... and sometimes will work
> very normally until you start trying to write data out to the space
> between 32 and 40GB.
>
> Other machines will handle an 80GB but not a 120.  I went through
> about 3 weeks of chaos on my two home machines about two years
> ago.  I bought a new drive and began moving drives around between the
> two machines.  Ended up getting BIOS updates on both machines and
> everything has been peaches and cream since then.
>
> Quick.  Give me some wood to knock on!
>
>
>
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