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I am using Award Modular BIOS V4.51PG . The processor is Pentium 233 MHz, with 64 MB RAM . What is the maximum capacity of hard disk that can be connected to this system? Will this BIOS support 40 GB Hard disk?
No one will be able to tell you the answer to this question with the information you've provided.
You may be using an Award BIOS version 4.51PG, but it's customized by the motherboard manufacturer--sometimes heavily. A dozen motherboards could have Award BIOS 4.51PG and each would be different if they were each from a different manufacturer.
To get the answer, check with the motherboard manufacturer and/or chipset vendor. The motherboard manufacturer is really the one responsible for the BIOS, since the BIOS--although it might be from Award--is customized for your specific motherboard and chipset. For example, if you know you're using a Tyan Trinity 100AT s1590s motherboard and you're using BIOS version 1.16c, you can find out the maximum supported hard disk capacity (which, in this case, would be 36GB.).
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No, Jefro, it doesn't matter how you partition the disk. These limitations have nothing to do with partitions, file systems, or logical disk structures.
The combination of motherboard and BIOS rev I mentioned in the example can only handle a maximum hard disk capacity of 36GB. If you were to connect an 80GB drive, you could not partition more than 36GB of disk space because 36GB is the most you'll see.
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I didn't mean no to you Andrew. I meant no to Joji, his/
her bios won't support a single 40 gig hard drive
partition. (well,95% sure) Then it would be unlikely that
the OS used would support it is my guess based on the
age of the machine and nature of the question. Your
post didn't show up when I wrote my answer. Most HD's
have some sort of dynamic device overlay to overcome
some bios' limitations but that causes trouble later. With a
HD costing $100+ and a brand new spanking machine I
saw for $300 I would wonder why upgrade? Just get a
new machine ORRRRR use that old machine for BeOS.
With a machine that old BeOS is the only smart choice.
Any other OS will have Joji waiting tooooooo long.
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I have the same version of bios installed on my computer with a Pentium 166 Mhz and today only I tried to install a 40gb hard drive and the bios sees only 8gb out of it.
Now I am wondering how to upgrade my BIOS. Will I have to upgrade just the bios or the motherboard too?
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I'm upgrading my PII 400 mz with a 40 GB HD.
I bought a Ultra ATA 133 PCI card. When I try to load the new OS (Win2000) it says "The ACPI BIOS in this system is not fully compliant with the ACPI specs. I tried to find a free download on the net but was unable to do so. Could somebody point me in the right direction. thanks
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need to upgrade my bios to support large HDD
bios information :
ID string : 04/12/99-I440bx-w977-2a69kl1bc-00
board/bios-version :#9kb6-01
OEM : lucky star
chipset : I440bx-w977//intel
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i'm useing
Award Modular BIOS v4.51PGbios id : 2A6LFZ1AC
bios date : 10/27/98
bios signon : 10/27/1998-691-586B-8661-2A6LFZ1AC-00
super i/o : ITE 8661/SiS 6801 rev 2 found at port 279h
chipset : VIA 82C691 rev 1
OEM sign on : BX98 Ver 1.03 (981029)
how can i upgrade this bios
pls help me
thank u
i'll wait for ur mailjasmin
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Ladies & gentleman, I am using the same BIOS and have been using a 10 GB hard disk without problems. The problem as some of you know is that it doesn't support more than 8.4 gig FAT. So use a thing called ontrack overlay which should do the trick. I got it from the hard disk vendor. Best of luck.
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dear sir
i am using spacewalker via intel chipset mother board.
my bios is : award modular bios v4.51pg,an energy star ally copy right (c) 1984-98;award software,inc. (591pwiq9) via apollo mvp3 award plug & play bios extension v1.0a
10/27/98-mvp3-586b-ite86-2a5leh2bc-oo
my configaration is
processor:cyrix 300 Mhz
ram:163
hdd:30 gb
agp: 8mb
internal tv card 4mb vga built in
sound card:creative vibra 128.
using broad band lan connection (10Mbps)now i want to upgrade my bios cause some time it does not work properly.
please reply asap.
thanks
trislam
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Can't Config The Bios On Pentium Pro. 200 Because I Don't Have The Password Is There A Password That Will Allow Me To Get In?
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I have the same specifications as that of Jasmine's(VIA 82C691 rev 1 chipset). When i connect 40GB HDD, my bios does not detect the HDD at all. Only when i limit the capacity of the HDD to 32GB by inserting a Jumper, it detects. As per Sumant, he mentioned about Dynamic Drive Overlay which comes with Ontrack Disk Manager,it does help to utilize the full capacity of the drive. But it works with Win98 only. And when tried to install Windows 2000/XP it cannot read from the last cluster of the drive & then comes the horrible "Blue Screen Death...........
Thanks,
Muksmart.
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Subject: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG Details
Reply:
I have the same version of bios installed on my computer with a
Pentium 166 Mhz and today only I tried to install a 40gb hard
drive and the bios sees only 8gb out of it.
Now I am wondering how to upgrade my BIOS. Will I have to upgrade
just the bios or the motherboard too?
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Any one know wher i can download the these bios Award modular bios v4.51PG not just the page, but the download.
Thanks
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I am using a P100 main board with Award Modular Bios v4.51. The system could not recognise my sound card and network card even after correctly installing them. These two cards worked perfectly well on my PR133 AMD K-5 with the same Bios Chip. Can you please profer a solution. The sound card is Ensoniq PCI and the NIC is Realtek 8029
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Hi
The BIOS of my PC doesn't recognize a 40Gb HD, only 32Gb. How do I do to get an upgrade to it and also a progr to flash it?
This are the data:
Program: Unicore BIOS Wizard Version 1.8
Program: Unicore Chip Detect v0.72 2000.03.10
BIOS Date: 07/16/99
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 07/16/99-ALADDIN5->-00
BIOS Eval: ASUS P5A ACPI BIOS Revision 1007.A
Chipset: ALi M1541 rev 4
CPU: AMD K6II 300MHzPlease, answers for an almost dummy.
Thanks in advance
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There is not any problem about the version of BIOS that the board have. Most of manufacturers have an utility for upgrade the bios (try in his website). If the manufacturer of your disc has no sowftware about it, then try with Seagate's or WD software. I'm sure that will work. Good luck¡.
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Hey, I've got an Award Modular BIOS v4.51 PG and I need to know how to get past the password on it. Is there a default or backdoor password for it, or any other way to evade the password? The OS of the computerit's on is WinMe (if that helps) and I want to evade the password (if you want to know why, ask) or find out how to get it. If it's not too much trouble could you email me with information? BeccasVampire@Netscape.net
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Can't Config The Bios On Pentium Pro. 200 Because I Don't Have The Password Is There A Password That Will Allow Me To Get In?
v4.51pg
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response to Mike check the jumpers on your board and there is one jumper that you can jump in order to reset the bios to default
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Call me stupid but to my knowledgre and experience using a 20 master and 40 slave on a Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG machine using a Pentium 233 chip, recently upped to a cyrix m11 333 chip.
What i found was the limitations on the motherbourd will not see more than 8gb of space when formatting or using fdisk to partition the machine.
But however if you format the HDD on a machine with the capabilitys to see such HDD the machine will see the available space.
Hence you cant format a HDD larger than 8gb on this machine but it will see them without issue if already formatted to its full capabilities on a larger chipset machine.
I had this problem for some time and discovered this by advise from a very kind gentleman in a computer shop.
Hope this helps.
TONY.
Please don’t spend two weeks arguing with me and saying in your text book you cant because I have. Just try it, I was fortunate to have a large chipset (1gb jobby) machine available to me but your local pc shop will format it for you (I think) then install windows with it on your machine. You should be laughing and if not sorry but it worked for me and worth letting you know to see if it helps.
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I am using Award Modular BIOS V4.51PG . The processor is Pentium mmx/k6 200 MHz, with 128MB RAM . What is the maximum capacity of hard disk that can be connected to this system? Will this BIOS support 40 GB Hard disk? if it is not possible how i can upgrade bios setup?is there any site from which i get the latest version of bios setup.
my computer motherboard manufacturer (2a59it4c)TX3-TX pentium MMX/k6
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Hello,
can anyone tell me of what manufacturer my motherboard is?
Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG string: 12/02/97-i440LX--00
i read you can tell by this string, but i do not know how.
greetings,
pp
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