ASUS Intel BX chipset support how big HardDisk?

[frankelma]

Can my ASUS Intel BX chipset based motherboard support 80G HardDisk or more? What is the Maximam?

 

[Crashman]

Yes. As far as I know 127GB. You'll need the latest BIOS release. Should be BIOS 1014 Beta 3 or something like that.

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[TheRod]

Just to add some info about big HDD support : I had to update Windows XP to SP1 when I installed my 160Gb HDD. Before SP1 Windows only saw 127Gb HDD. I have an A7N8X MB, I know it's not an Intel BX chipset, but I think that you might need to have WinXP SP1 even if your BIOS support big HDD.

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[Crashman]

I think you need 48-bit addressing to overcome that limit, which is the same for older BIOS and software as far as I know. So even though the latest Asus BIOS supports hard drives over 80GB, I doubt it supports drives over 127GB (because the latest BIOS for their BX boards is still a couple years old).

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