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[Twista]

Whats the biggest estiamted hard drive size on a old pc with the specs of p2 233mhz and had the daughter board with the isa and pci. Right now my friend pc has only a 4gb and hes thinking about getting a 40gb and i rember on my p2 350mhz my 20gb worked fine so would a 40gb work on a older pc.

 

[DaveSimmons]

The last 3 size limits were 8 GB, 32 GB, 137 GB IIRC. For a 233 it's most likely 32 GB, but you might be able to flash the BIOS to raise the limit to 137 GB.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The last 3 size limits were 8 GB, 32 GB, 137 GB IIRC. For a 233 it's most likely 32 GB, but you might be able to flash the BIOS to raise the limit to 137 GB.

Yep, even though it's a 233 a BIOS flash should fix you up to 137GB... What chipset?

 

[mikecel79]

Most LX boards can be flashed to 137GB. The LX had the same IDE controller as the BX boards and all of them go to 137GB.

 

[Twista]

im gussing its the Lx C.S. board. I put windows 2000 on there i had a dec. between xp or 2k3 or 2000. He needs a new os b/c the cable guy came today and said he couldnt install cable modem on windows 95.. so i had to put 2000 and it runs pretty fast and better than xp on a p2 233 and 128mb ram.

 

[EeyoreX]

i had a dec. between xp or 2k3 or 2000

\Dan

<edit>To be somewhat on topic, yeah, probably a 137GB limit is what you'll find.</edit>

 

[redbeard1]

Most motherboards makers quit updating their bios's on those older lx/bx boards. So usually their last bios gets you 40 gig.

 

[gnumantsc]

Ok you stated that LX can work with 120 gig drives quite interesting that my MSI 5169 can't recognize a 40gig drive in the bios.

I heard today something of a new bios flash that makes it possible to read bigger drives but I'm not sure for what boards or not... I would love to run my 40 gig as master on my k6-3 400 but it won't boot because of the bios not seeing it.

 

[Ionizer86]

Our P233MMX had a 8GB limit till we flashed it to get a 20GB reading properly.

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: gnumantsc
Ok you stated that LX can work with 120 gig drives quite interesting that my MSI 5169 can't recognize a 40gig drive in the bios.

I heard today something of a new bios flash that makes it possible to read bigger drives but I'm not sure for what boards or not... I would love to run my 40 gig as master on my k6-3 400 but it won't boot because of the bios not seeing it.

The MSI 5169 is not based on the LX chipset. It's based on the Ali Alladin V chipset.

 

[charlie21]

Worst case, you could pick up a controller card, then you wouldn't have to worry about the onboard IDE limitations.