can anyone work this one out?

i have fitted a new 60gb hard drive to an old pc but the pc can't see it
using the default bios and jumper settings.

if i change the jumper settings to reduce the size of the hard disk to 2 gb
and change the bios settings to manually detect a 2 GB hard drive then the
pc will see the hard drive ok.

the original hard drive was 4gb so thanks to a bit of research i found it
must be a bios limitation, fairly common in older pcs, where the bios is
programmed to only see a maximum of 4GB. upgrading to a newer bios would
solve the problem because the 4gb limitation would be fixed.

however, the latest bios version for my motherboard is 1999 and isn't much
later than the original bios. i've upgraded and the 4gb limitation still
exists.

my question, is what else can i do to get my pc to recognise a large hard
drive?

fyi the pc is a pentium II, 233Mhz, 64MB ram, lengend-v motherboard.

cheers!

Buy a contoller card for the PC that supports the big drive. Another way
(bad ...bad .. bad) is to use a drive overlay available fron the drive
manucacturer's site (free)

irrelevantelephant wrote:
>
> can anyone work this one out?
>
> i have fitted a new 60gb hard drive to an old pc but the pc can't see it
> using the default bios and jumper settings.
>
> if i change the jumper settings to reduce the size of the hard disk to 2 gb
> and change the bios settings to manually detect a 2 GB hard drive then the
> pc will see the hard drive ok.
>
> the original hard drive was 4gb so thanks to a bit of research i found it
> must be a bios limitation, fairly common in older pcs, where the bios is
> programmed to only see a maximum of 4GB. upgrading to a newer bios would
> solve the problem because the 4gb limitation would be fixed.
>
> however, the latest bios version for my motherboard is 1999 and isn't much
> later than the original bios. i've upgraded and the 4gb limitation still
> exists.
>
> my question, is what else can i do to get my pc to recognise a large hard
> drive?
>
> fyi the pc is a pentium II, 233Mhz, 64MB ram, lengend-v motherboard.
>
> cheers!

Buy a contoller card for the PC that supports the big drive. Another way
(bad ...bad .. bad) is to use a drive overlay available fron the drive
manucacturer's site (free)

irrelevantelephant wrote:
>
> can anyone work this one out?
>
> i have fitted a new 60gb hard drive to an old pc but the pc can't see it
> using the default bios and jumper settings.
>
> if i change the jumper settings to reduce the size of the hard disk to 2 gb
> and change the bios settings to manually detect a 2 GB hard drive then the
> pc will see the hard drive ok.
>
> the original hard drive was 4gb so thanks to a bit of research i found it
> must be a bios limitation, fairly common in older pcs, where the bios is
> programmed to only see a maximum of 4GB. upgrading to a newer bios would
> solve the problem because the 4gb limitation would be fixed.
>
> however, the latest bios version for my motherboard is 1999 and isn't much
> later than the original bios. i've upgraded and the 4gb limitation still
> exists.
>
> my question, is what else can i do to get my pc to recognise a large hard
> drive?
>
> fyi the pc is a pentium II, 233Mhz, 64MB ram, lengend-v motherboard.
>
> cheers!