If any of you have the latest BIOS update for this old motherboard (my home comp ) please let me know. www.esupport.com asking me to call them and I don’t know if they gonna charge me for that or not.
I think the latest revision is 1013 or something like that.
My current BIOS for this old Asus P2-99 motherboard
BIOS Date: 03/03/00
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 03/03/00-i440ZX-P2
OEM Sign-On: ASUS P2-99 ACPI BIOS Revision 1012
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3
Superio: Winbond 977TF rev 0 found at port 3F0h
CPU: Pentium® III (0.25 µm) 450 MHz
Memory Installed: 255 MB
I need this so my Western Digital 160 GB hard drive can be recognized with its actual size. Right now Windows XP recognising it as 120GB only. This BIOS needs to be upgraded in order to recognise hard drives larger than 137 GB. This is a limitation as you all aware of. WD Lifeguard tool didn’t work.
However it still didn’t resolve my problem and XP won’t see the drive as 160GB. I searched and found the solution, so sharing with you guys.
After installing Windows XP, in the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\atapi\Parameters create a new DWORD, called EnableBigLba, and set it’s value to 1. Simply reboot the system.
It worked for me :k:
For those who don’t want to mess with registry, this tiny tool will create the entry for you automatically and then you just need to reboot.
hey, smoothie bhai...a random question about your drive. do u think it makes more noise than your older one. i recently put in a 160GB wester digital hard drive, and i think its pretty noisy.
check other components, the noise might be coming from a fan or something. Latest Hard drives makes less noise than anyother oler ones, and less than all other components in any PC. Or else your drive must be broken or something.
I think DT has a point, I recently installed 200 Gb Western as well and I m a feeling a lil more noise than usual.
and my Xp was showing it as 120 gb as well, but it took me a few minutes to solve the problem.
I went to Device Manager, collapsed Disk Drives, right click properties on the specific drive, went to volumes and clicked POPULATE.... the problem was resolved immediately.
^-- The 120Gig thing is a limitation in XP (with no SP installed!!). It just doesn’t support Hard drives larger than 137GB.
And I find it really strange that both you have a modern drive and it makes more noise/ I still have to come across any such drive. Maybe it makes more noise when making read/write movements?? Otherwise It is completely new to me.
And believe me I have a new drive in my hands every week. It could also be a WD (western digital) thing? :-/ I mostly use Maxtor harddives :k: Or more recently even Seagate is doing good, both performance wise and noise reduction :k:
i have a western digital 160...and it DOES make more noise. but XP does recognize it properly. the only issue is the noise. i installed it myself...and i am wondering if i didn't put it in right...but i doubt thats the case. its been working fine for more than 3 weeks now...just the noise makes me wonder if there's something wrong.
Gizzy, thanks once again. As for the SP, I do have SP2 installed which should have the SP1 features and the latest. Strange, isn't it. I also read somewhere about having SP1 installed resovles the problem, but it didn't.
DT, brother I just did a stress test on the new drive by moving three folders (each of 'em was 2GB of size) simultaneously and I did monitored the noise closely. I didn't notice any noice from my new drive. However the old drive, also a WD8GB from where I was copying the data from was noiser as usual. So the new one I would say is very quiet in fact.
when the shyte hits the fan, it hits SO fast, u wouldn't have time to extend arm, and grab the lota.. take it from a surviver of 11 data-loss crashes in 9 years ;-)
Take a backup as Faizy suggested on optical media (CD/DVD). If its a recent purchase, less than a year that is, than take it back to BestBuy/Circuit city or ship it to WD’s TX head quarters. They will send u a new one. IT SHOULD NOT BE NOISY AT ALL. Must be a platter hitting a head.
) please let me know. www.esupport.com asking me to call them and I don’t know if they gonna charge me for that or not.
I updated the firmware to the latest 1013.
noisy.
