Max drive on K7S5A

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Anyone know what the maximum drive that can be run on a K7S5A board? TIA

 

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Which K7S5A do you have, version 3 or Pro or other ?
Do you know the date of your bios version ?
Up to a 137GB should be workable on any K7S5A
The K7S5A PRO with latest bios update (8/25/2003) should work with up to a
160GB.

"KookaLuke" <wireball@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Anyone know what the maximum drive that can be run on a K7S5A board? TIA
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120 gigs is the max with the on board IDE controller. If you use a PCI
IDE card, there is no limit. If you have a K7S5A Pro, there is also no
limitation.

KookaLuke (wireball@comcast.net) wrote:
: Anyone know what the maximum drive that can be run on a K7S5A board? TIA

 

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"KookaLuke" <wireball@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<s62dnX1HXN0ggVjdRVn-tA@comcast.com>...

> Anyone know what the maximum drive that can be run on a K7S5A board?

137GB, but www.48bitlba.com/hdinfo.htm has a utility, HDinfo, that can
tell you if a mobo supports 48-bit LBA or not.

 

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"KookaLuke" <wireball@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<s62dnX1HXN0ggVjdRVn-tA@comcast.com>...

> Anyone know what the maximum drive that can be run on a K7S5A board?

I made a mistake in my previous reply. You want a program from Intel
called 48LBACHK.EXE to check your BIOS HD capacity:

http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/sb/CS-009302.htm

ftp://download.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/48lbachk.exe

 

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"Tod" <no_spam_me@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> The K7S5A PRO with latest bios update (8/25/2003) should work with up to a
> 160GB.

So far it can't see my new 80GB Western Digital, I'm
having to use an overlay that WinXP doesn't seem to like.
Xeno

 

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It really sounds like a BIOS problem.
I have a K7S5a 3.1 and I use a Maxtor 120GB HDD. The mb and BIOS recognized
the HDD with no problem.
I use the HoneyX 1209 BIOS.
Try looking up a HoneyX BIOS here:
http://www.geocities.com/honeymoon36/bios.html


"Xeno Chauvin" <arfulbrank@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "Tod" <no_spam_me@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:ZVbxc.15666$4S5.2966@attbi_s52...
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> > The K7S5A PRO with latest bios update (8/25/2003) should work with up to
a
> > 160GB.
>
> So far it can't see my new 80GB Western Digital, I'm
> having to use an overlay that WinXP doesn't seem to like.
> Xeno
>
>