Motherboard not seeing whole HDD

[markmccown]

I recently got a new motherboard and a 17 gig hard drive. The motherboard specs say it will support drives bigger that 8 gigs. however, it only sees 4 gigs. I would understand that if it was just seeing 8 gigs it could be a bios problem... but.... why it only sees 4 I don't understand.

 

markmccown,<br>
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Any motherboard will only see up to 4 gigs if the LBA mode in the bios is turned off. If this is the case, activate all of the LBA functions in your bios and try detecting the drive again.<br>
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I hope this helps.<br>
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mblyde

 

[DaveGoTech]

Assuming this is an IDE drive (not SCSI) have your motherboard &quot;auto-detect&quot;<br>
the hard drive. If it only reports a 4GB drive, check your hard drive documentation.<br>
Usually the manufacturer will supply a utility program to correct this. Also, did<br>
you visit the manufacturer's web site? They almost always have information<br>
posted on the most common problems.

 

[robherc]

Also; you can try setting all of the drive specs in the BIOS manually & see if you can override the error.<br>
Get into youre IDE configuration for that drive & enter the Cyls Heads & Sectors data from the drive; make sure LBA is on, make sure 32bit I/O is on; then make sure you allow block I/O...see if that doesn't get the BIOS to recognize all 13GBs of it <p>-Robherc<br><a href=mailto:robherc@netzero.net>robherc@netzero.net</a><br><a href= > </a><br>*nix installation & program collector/reseller. Contact me if you think you've got one that I don't

 

[Karl Blessing]

I have a 13Gig Seagate HDD, and yes what i do is i set my BIOS to autodetect it everytime it starts up(LBA mode on also), this way, it never had to save the HDD settigns right in the bios, my theory is that some bios with that 8G barrier will only hold the settings it allows when the PC is off, but if you have it autodetect it, the correct settings remain in memory everytime you start up.<br>
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Might help, give it a try, also check your MB manufacter, for the latest Bios Firmware. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@bellsouth.net>kb244@bellsouth.net</a><br><a href=

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