do i have 48 bit lba support?

[GhostMjr]

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).

[Gandalf]

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.

[GhostMjr]

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

[Anonymous]

A Highpoint controller should work fine - I think scan and dabs both sell them

[Gandalf]

Originally 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.

[GhostMjr]

Originally 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

[Gh0st Face Killah]

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.

[Gandalf]

Originally 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.