Hello, my brother has an Asus A7V motherboard (very old) recently the hard drive stoped working, im not sure if this is due to a hardware issue or not, but we wanted to replace the harddrive anyway. the hard drive currently in the comp is a fugitsu 30 ig 5400rpm ATA-66 drive can i put a ata-100 80 gig hard drive in this computer? if so is it easy to do, i mean to i have to install Promise drivers? or where can i buy the same hard drive from, i cant seem to find any anywhere i prefer a uk site please. Thanks,

You should be able to install any ATA/IDE Hdrive up to 137GB in size. The drive may perform at ATA-66 because that is what the HDrive controller runs at. Look for 120GB size if possible, or consider a controller card, which SHOULD allow any size HDrive. You should try to determine exactly what the problem is BEFORE buying another HDrive. If the issue IS the HD then the computer should boot but stop at a screen stating something like invadid system disk. If the computer does nothing at all then it probably isn't the HDrive. What ARE the symptoms?

Hi thanks for that, i get a message saying disk boot failure, insert boot disk and press enter, i figured the hard drive was gone, what i did is open the hard drive so check what the problem is, and what i found was that sometimes the drive doesnt spin on startup, and other times it does, when it doesnt i get the boot failure message, i have changed the PSU aswell, from experience i can safely say that it is the harddrive rather than anything else, i need a new hard drive anyway as this comp only has 30gig but from what you said, i will buy an IDE 120 gig hard drive speed 7200? this will work right? Thanks,

I'm fairly sure you are fine with any IDE hard drive you want. I have a K7V which is the same m/b only Slot A instead of Socket A. I have a new 80GB drive in it without any problems. I'm sure it could handle drives over 120Gig if you just update the BIOS. No drivers are needed. Obviously you are going to have to install windows and everything again. If that 30Gb drive is still good you may as well just format it and get it going again instead of buying a new drive. Mattwizz3 : ) Sempron 2600+ @ 2.2GHz 1Gb DDR400 Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe 200GB SATA 2X 80Gb IDE 256Mb MSI 6800 Ultra

The BIOS may or may not have any updates available. The 28bit LBA limit is just above the 120GB HD size. I simply suggested a 120GB because it is larger and should work fine. Anything under that size should do.

excelent, well i have just ordered myself a new 450watt psu and a brandnew 120 gig hard drive, lets see what happens. Thanks alot everyone.

Woohoo, I have some very fond memories of that motherboard. I put it through Hell, and it never let me down. "If it ain't broke, upgrade anyway."