FORC5 wrote:
problem solved, flashed with latest bios and now it will not post at
all. was the correct bios from GB
fate says it was time to upgrade :{) unless someone has a ga-6bx7 bios
laying around ?
thanks
fp
At 09:19 AM 6/22/2005, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with:
At 01:15 PM 22/06/2005, FORC5 wrote:
have a ga-6bx7 needs a new drive. had a 80gb wd ( will not post )
20gb will not post. 16gb will post.
drive in box ( bad) is a 13 gb
Make sure you have recent BIOS updates (I've gone as big as 120GB on a
BX.) Make sure the drives are set to either master or slave, and not
cable select if they are by themselves.
T
Try booting up without the new harddisk. Two problems can be occuring
1) Your harddisk has too many cylinders, no bios patch will fix this.
You have to set the jumper on your harddisk to force it down to 32GB or
whatever value it is to go under the 4000 or so cylinders. At least
this was the case for a much older TX Chipset board.
2) Your harddisk is having problems with UDMA negotiation. While UDMA
is backwards compatible, there was a bug in the old implementations
where it would hang while negotiating. Download the UDMA utilities from
your hardware vendor to hardlock the UDMA to some value that is support
instead of relying on autonegotiation.
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