As tealeaf and some of the other members of our clan may recall i have an old northwood 2.0ghz computer made by dell i need to know however if my computer supports 48-bit lba support! Without this my 160gb hard disk drive is not
compatible with my motherboard it seems as only 127gb in windows of the drive is seen! i need to know where to get a 48bit pci controller card in that case and if any1 knows where to get one that would be great! My bios is up to date so this is not the problem!
My motherboard is a Intel® Pentium® 4 Northwood (478 pin) processor with 2.0ghz chip and all tech specs r below
Thanks
GhostMjr
Microprocessor
Microprocessor type
Intel® Pentium® 4 microprocessor
1.50, 1.60, 1.80, 1.90, 2.00, 2.20, or 2.40 GHz (400 MHz); or
2.26, 2.40, 2.53, 2.66, or 2.80 GHz (533 MHz)
L1 cache
8 KB first-level
L2 cache
256-KB or 512-KB (displayed in the system setup program) pipelined-burst, eight-way set associative, write-back SRAM
System Information
System chip set
Intel 850 or 850E
DMA channels
eight
Interrupt levels
15
System BIOS chip
4 Mb (512 KB)
System clock
400- or 533- MHz data rate
Expansion Bus
Bus types
PCI and AGP
Bus speed
PCI: 33 MHz; AGP: 66 MHz
AGP connector
one
AGP connector size
172 pins
AGP connector data width (maximum)
32 bits
AGP bus protocols
4x/2x modes at 1.5 V
PCI connectors
four
PCI connector size
120 pins
PCI connector data width
(maximum)
32 bits
Memory
Architecture
RDRAM
Memory connectors
four
Memory capacities
64-, 128-, 256-, and 512-MB non-ECC RDRAM
Minimum memory
128 MB
Maximum memory
2 GB with Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows XP; 512 MB with Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
Memory type
PC800 (non-ECC)
Memory speed
40 ns or faster
BIOS address
F8000h
Drives
Externally accessible
two 5.25-inch bays
two 3.5-inch bays
Internally accessible
two bays for 1-inchâ€"high IDE hard drives
Available devices
ATA-66 or ATA-100 Ultra DMA hard drive, CD drive, Zip drive, DVD drive, and CD-RW drive
Ports and Connectors
Externally accessible:
Serial
9-pin connector; 16550C-compatible
Parallel
25-hole connector (bidirectional)
Video
15-hole connector
Keyboard
6-pin mini-DIN connector or USB connector
Mouse
6-pin mini-DIN connector or USB connector
USB
two front-panel and two back-panel USBâ€"compliant connectors
Headphone
front-panel miniature jack
Audio1
three miniature jacks for line-in, line-out, and microphone
Internally accessible:
Primary IDE channel
40-pin connector on PCI local bus
Secondary IDE channel
40-pin connector on PCI local bus
Floppy drive
34-pin connector
1 Present only on computers with integrated audio capabilities.
Audio2
Audio controller
Analog Devices AD1885 AC97 Codec
2 Present only on computers with integrated audio capabilities.
Video
Video controller
AGP 4X
Controls and Lights
Power control
push button
Power light
green
Hard-drive access light
green
Diagnostic code lights
four bicolor (amber and green) located on back panel
Power
DC power supply:
Wattage
250 W
Heat dissipation
534 BTU (fully-loaded computer without monitor)
Voltage (switch-selectable
on back panel)
90 to 135 V at 60 Hz; 180 to 265 V at 50 Hz;
100 V at 50 to 60 Hz for Japanese computers
Backup battery
3-V CR2032 coin cell
Physical
Height x Width x Depth
42.5 x 18.1 x 44.7 cm
(16.7 x 7.13 x 17.6 inches)
Weight
12.7 kg (28 lb)
Environmental
Temperature:
Operating
10º to 35ºC (50º to 95ºF)3
Storage
â€"40º to 65ºC (â€"40º to 149ºF)
Relative humidity
20% to 80% (noncondensing)
Maximum vibration:
Operating
0.25 G at 3 to 200 Hz at 1/2 octave/min
Storage
0.5 G at 3 to 200 Hz at 1/2 octave/min
Maximum shock:
Operating
bottom half-sine pulse with a change in velocity of 50.8 cm/sec (20 inches/sec)
Storage
23-G faired-square wave with a velocity change of 508 cm/sec (200 inches/sec)
Altitude:
Operating
â€"15.2 to 3048 m (â€"50 to 10,000 ft)3
Storage
â€"15.2 to 10,600 m (â€"50 to 35,000 ft)
3 At 35°C (95°F), the maximum operating altitude is 914 m (3000 ft).
What SP level is your OS install disk? Gold XP will only see 127GB. SP1 and up will see the full 160GB. I recon that is the problem. A P4 mobo should be fine with big hdd's
If the drive is seen as 160GB in the bios then your problem is windows. Report back what the drive shows as in the bios splash screen or setup.
You are correct gandalf i have sp2 installed on my pc i forgot to mention that! but it still does not recognise the full hdd space! I may have to get one of those controller cards but i can't find them anywhere :(
A Highpoint controller should work fine - I think scan and dabs both sell them
QuoteOriginally posted by Gandalf-LordOfJelly@Nov 3 2004, 07:57 PM
What SP level is your OS install disk? Gold XP will only see 127GB. SP1 and up will see the full 160GB. I recon that is the problem. A P4 mobo should be fine with big hdd's
If the drive is seen as 160GB in the bios then your problem is windows. Report back what the drive shows as in the bios splash screen or setup.
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you may have SP2 now, but what was it when the OS was first installed? That is the key.
We need to see what the bios reports the drive as before recommending a course of action.
QuoteOriginally posted by Gandalf-LordOfJelly@Nov 4 2004, 08:16 AM
you may have SP2 now, but what was it when the OS was first installed? That is the key.
We need to see what the bios reports the drive as before recommending a course of action.
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Ok bios says
primary drive OFF
capacity n/a
So is it set up as a slave/secondary drive?
It may also be worth checking which version of the bios you have and updating it if its not the latest version. You should be able to get all the info you need to do that from the Dell site.
QuoteOriginally posted by GhostMjr@Nov 4 2004, 07:53 PM
Ok bios says
primary drive OFF
capacity n/a
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ok, that doesn't sound right. could be that dell have their own custom bios.
as GFK says above, check for bios updates.
the drive should show in the bios.