KT3 Ultra hard drive limit?

[Eric]

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Greetings,
I have a KT3 Ultra running WinXP Home SP2 and it would be great if someone
could point me towards info on the maximum hard drive size this board will
take.

Thanks, Eric

 

[Eric]

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Eric wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> I have a KT3 Ultra running WinXP Home SP2 and it would be great if someone
> could point me towards info on the maximum hard drive size this board will
> take.
>

More specifically, will this motherboard natively support a hard drive
greater than 128 GB? If not, then is a bios update available? Or perhaps a
new bios chip? The motherboard is currently using bios v5.3 dated
04-10-2002.

Thanks, Eric

 

[Gollum]

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On Sat, 21 May 2005 14:01:42 -0700, Eric <say.no@spam.now> wrote:

>Eric wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>> I have a KT3 Ultra running WinXP Home SP2 and it would be great if someone
>> could point me towards info on the maximum hard drive size this board will
>> take.
>>
>
>More specifically, will this motherboard natively support a hard drive
>greater than 128 GB? If not, then is a bios update available? Or perhaps a
>new bios chip? The motherboard is currently using bios v5.3 dated
>04-10-2002.
>
>Thanks, Eric

Even if it doesn't support HD over 137GB you could always use multiple
partitions.

HTH
Gollum

 

[Guest]

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Eric wrote:
> Eric wrote:
>
>>Greetings,
>>I have a KT3 Ultra running WinXP Home SP2 and it would be great if someone
>>could point me towards info on the maximum hard drive size this board will
>>take.
>>
>
>
> More specifically, will this motherboard natively support a hard drive
> greater than 128 GB? If not, then is a bios update available? Or perhaps a
> new bios chip? The motherboard is currently using bios v5.3 dated
> 04-10-2002.
>
> Thanks, Eric
Well I have a 250 GB drive in my system, but my BIOS is 5.70. I hope
this helps some.

Mike Skuczas

 

[Eric]

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Mike Skuczas wrote:
>
> > More specifically, will this motherboard natively support a hard drive
> > greater than 128 GB? If not, then is a bios update available? Or
> > perhaps a
> > new bios chip? The motherboard is currently using bios v5.3 dated
> > 04-10-2002.
> >
> Well I have a 250 GB drive in my system, but my BIOS is 5.70. I hope
> this helps some.
>
> Mike Skuczas

Thanks for the reply. This is encouraging news. Do you happen to know the
PCB revision of your KT3 Ultra?

Thanks again, Eric

 

[Guest]

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I wasn't sure until I went to MSI's website and looked it up, but the KT3
Ultra uses the same BIOS version as the Ultra2. Version 5.7 (2/24/03) was
the last revision. 250GB is probably getting close to the max.
Robert
"Eric" <say.no@spam.now> wrote in message news:4297B058.E787146A@spam.now...
> Mike Skuczas wrote:
>>
>> > More specifically, will this motherboard natively support a hard drive
>> > greater than 128 GB? If not, then is a bios update available? Or
>> > perhaps a
>> > new bios chip? The motherboard is currently using bios v5.3 dated
>> > 04-10-2002.
>> >
>> Well I have a 250 GB drive in my system, but my BIOS is 5.70. I hope
>> this helps some.
>>
>> Mike Skuczas
>
> Thanks for the reply. This is encouraging news. Do you happen to know
> the
> PCB revision of your KT3 Ultra?
>
> Thanks again, Eric