Does the Abit BH6 rev. 1.0 support a 60GB hard drive? I have a Western Digital 7200 RPM hard drive and I'm having problems installing it. I've gone to Abit's web site and can't seem to find any info there.??? I'm still waiting on them to respond to my email. Thanks!

if you run windows 95,98,or millenium that shouldn't be a problem for partionong the hard drive to read all 60 gigs if you are using system commander for muliple os'es then the only thing I can tell you is I've been able to run 3 startable partitions maybe you should go to the western digital site and download the utility files it is pretty easy to do it will help you create a boot disk make sure you have a boot disk for your windows.P S if you happen to have the driver cd that came with your motherboard maybe you could let me download it I do have a cable modem so it would be fast also if you have any other questions you can email me.

you should flash a newer bios. i got a 40g maxtor and setup freezed when they met. upgrading to the "s" bios (sp and ss depending on board revision 1.0x/1.1x, make sure you check this) solved the problem very well. ps, your primary partition still needs <8g for win9x/me and <2g for <=dos6.

Hi! there, I want to buy some more RAM. I'm not sure if I should just buy a 256M chip. In the manual the maximum supported for one chip is 128M, but I guess a 256M one would just fit it since I think there was no 256M chip around when the manual was out. However, I am buying one buy mail order, and it would be troublesome if there is any trouble. Another question is that 133M/s should be all right, isn't it? A 100M/s is not any cheaper and so I don't want to buy that unless necessary. Thanks for answering the question!! Erich

Sorry that I posted it in the wrong place. Erich

I had exactly the same problem. My bh6 rev 1.0 hung when it tried to detect a 40 gig maxtor drive (5400). I flashed the bios to "ss" as suggested by Borg and it worked first time. This whole problem took me 15mins to sort out thanks to u people. Cheers Borg for your 100% accurate advice. PS. I believe that u can tell what revision of bh6 u have by if it has colour co-ordinated ports (com/lpt etc) its a rev 1.1 if they are black its a 1.0, but if u are unsure ask abit. Thanks again :)

I am trying the same thing with the 40g harddisk upgrade on a BH6 version 1.05 and I'm running into some problems that I'm hoping someone can help me with. I flash upgraded the BIOS to the SS (from HN). With SS running however, the Soft Menu II is not holding the CPU description and the system will not boot properly from the BIOS interface. I'm getting the 'CPU is unworkable or has been change' error but when I follow the advice to disable "speed error hold" it doesn't seem to make any difference. In fact, it won't save any of the CPU information including that setting. If I go back to the HN BIOS version, everything returns to normal. I've also tried this with the QN and NV BIOS versions with no luck. The CPU is a PIII 500. Thanks.