Well, I gave up...
I had been pushing off a full system update for the longest time, and after tinkering with the old GA-7N400 for three, long nights in a row, flashing and re-flashing it 'till the chips were smoking, I still couldn't convince it to report two different SATA disks correctly...
Well, that appears to explain a thing or two...:sneaky:
Funny, I seem to remember that POST and Windows used to report a disk size a little bit closer to the advertised size. I knew about these differences before, I just never realised they could get this big. Thank you for the reminder...
OK, here's a quick update: I flashed the 4384 BIOS, and noticed no difference from the 4379 BIOS. I had allready installed the latest BASE-drivers, so WinXP didn't even notice any new hardware. No new fix, but also no new bug, as far as I can tell.
That means it also doesn't fix the 8%...
Thanks, I'll try that, when I have cleaned up the mess from my last attempt. However, from your previous options I found that the 4.3.79 ROM works better for me than the 4.3.83 version. I don't remember the exact problem I had, but I agree with the other reports you mentioned.
No problem. The...
First off, you are a genius in my book for modding this BIOS like this.
However...
I also tried to add a WD7500AADS to my system, a GA-7N400 Pro2 v2.0 with a 320 GB PATA bootdisk and a WD6400AACS SATA data disk.
At first, the system kept freezing right after recognising the 750 G disk, no...
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