need to flash the Bios??

[Stealer]

Hi All,

I was just given a old computer that was running windows 95. I ran fdisk and then did a format. I then added a 2'nd hard drive to the first. They are set as master and slave on the primary controller. Both drives are different sizes.
The first drive is a Seagate and the second drive is a western digital. The problem is that both drives are being detected in the bios as the same size. (1.6 mg)

I am thinking that I must need to flash the bios, but have been unable to find where to get the bios upgrade from.

The main board is a Intel 82430VX

The bios is a Award Modular Bios v4.51pg

Can someone please tell me where to download the flash bios from. (If that is what you all think that I need to do)

Thanks for all your help.

And thanks to all who support this forum.


Stephen

 

[edfair]

Did you try manually setting the sizes? Mfg web sites generally have cyl, head, and sector info handy. You could be having ID problems.
BTW , did they identify correctly for Mfg? Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[Stealer]

Hi Ed.

Wow! Thanks for the fast reply. It looks like I finally got it figured out. The hard drives in the bios were set at "user" instead of auto. After I set them to auto the bios correctly detected the size of each drive.

Thanks for your help.
Stephen