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Replacing an OEM Mobo...
My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive. Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive? Thanks! Jimmy Roberts jkr1963.at.verizon.dot.net |
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Jimmy Roberts wrote:
My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive. That appears to be a parallel ATA drive. I can't really find much on the mobo. Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive? That's a parallel drive as well? The WD2500BB comes in serial and parallel versions. Assuming that it's a parallel drive, you should be alright. If for some bizarre reason this Pentium III machine did not support LBA-48, you would not be able to address more than 128GB of your new drive, but I think that's unlikely. Have at it. |
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Jimmy Roberts wrote:
My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive. Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive? Thanks! Jimmy Roberts jkr1963.at.verizon.dot.net The Asus motherboard is new enough that there should be no problem using a 250GB PATA drive... Ben Myers |
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replacing the old 40gb 3.5" parallel ata drive with another of a larger
capacity should not be a problem. however, you should make sure that you have a 40pin/80 wire ide cable and there is a chance that your system will not natively recognize the full capacity of the new larger drive. if you purchase a new drive as an 'oem' package then you get just a bare drive, but if you purchase it in a 'retail' package you will get the drive, the cable, utility cd and instructions. the newer/larger drives need the newer cable to work correctly. the cable looks very similar to the old but with twice as many wires running thought the ribbon cable. i have not seen the western digital drive you mentioned available for sale for some time so suspect you are talking about a used one. either way, you can get the utility software from the cd that is included with the drive or from the drive manufactures web site. among other things, the utility software allows you to clone the software image from the current drive to the new (so you do not need to reinstall any software), and to enable the system to be able to recognize the full capacity of the drive if you find that your computer is not able to 'see' the full capacity of the drive. "Jimmy Roberts" wrote in message ... My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive. Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive? Thanks! Jimmy Roberts jkr1963.at.verizon.dot.net |
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On Sep 25, 11:41*pm, Grinder wrote:
Jimmy Roberts wrote: My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive. That appears to be a parallel ATA drive. *I can't really find much on the mobo. Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive? That's a parallel drive as well? *The WD2500BB comes in serial and parallel versions. Assuming that it's a parallel drive, you should be alright. *If for some bizarre reason this Pentium III machine did not support LBA-48, you would not be able to address more than 128GB of your new drive, but I think that's unlikely. Have at it. Yes, they are both parallel. |
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no cross posting please. lol
Christopher Muto wrote: replacing the old 40gb 3.5" parallel ata drive with another of a larger capacity should not be a problem. however, you should make sure that you have a 40pin/80 wire ide cable and there is a chance that your system will not natively recognize the full capacity of the new larger drive. if you purchase a new drive as an 'oem' package then you get just a bare drive, but if you purchase it in a 'retail' package you will get the drive, the cable, utility cd and instructions. the newer/larger drives need the newer cable to work correctly. the cable looks very similar to the old but with twice as many wires running thought the ribbon cable. i have not seen the western digital drive you mentioned available for sale for some time so suspect you are talking about a used one. either way, you can get the utility software from the cd that is included with the drive or from the drive manufactures web site. among other things, the utility software allows you to clone the software image from the current drive to the new (so you do not need to reinstall any software), and to enable the system to be able to recognize the full capacity of the drive if you find that your computer is not able to 'see' the full capacity of the drive. "Jimmy Roberts" wrote in message ... My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive. Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive? Thanks! Jimmy Roberts jkr1963.at.verizon.dot.net |
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On Sep 26, 11:27*am, Dan Sgambelluri wrote:
no cross posting please. *lol Christopher Muto wrote: replacing the old 40gb 3.5" parallel ata drive with another of a larger capacity should not be a problem. *however, you should make sure that you have a 40pin/80 wire ide cable and there is a chance that your system will not natively recognize the full capacity of the new larger drive. *if you purchase a new drive as an 'oem' package then you get just a bare drive, but if you purchase it in a 'retail' package you will get the drive, the cable, utility cd and instructions. *the newer/larger drives need the newer cable to work correctly. *the cable looks very similar to the old but with twice as many wires running thought the ribbon cable. *i have not seen the western digital drive you mentioned available for sale for some time so suspect you are talking about a used one. *either way, you can get the utility software from the cd that is included with the drive or from the drive manufactures web site. *among other things, the utility software allows you to clone the software image from the current drive to the new (so you do not need to reinstall any software), and to enable the system to be able to recognize the full capacity of the drive if you find that your computer is not able to 'see' the full capacity of the drive. "Jimmy Roberts" wrote in message .... My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive. Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive? Thanks! Jimmy Roberts jkr1963.at.verizon.dot.net- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Do some newsgroups allow cross-posting and some newgroups discourage it? |
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posted to a.c.h.p-h only
Jimmy Roberts wrote: Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, alt.comp.hardware, alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt, alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Subject: Replacing an OEM Mobo... User-Agent: G2/1.0 Googlegrouper excessively crossposting; thus that those who filter out googlegroupers *or* multiple group xposts will not see his post/question. -and- Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive .... discordance between the subject 'replacing a mobo' and the actual message 'replacing the hdd'. -- Mike Easter |
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On Sep 26, 1:05*pm, "Mike Easter" wrote:
posted to a.c.h.p-h only Jimmy Roberts wrote: Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, alt.comp.hardware, alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt, alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Subject: Replacing an OEM Mobo... User-Agent: G2/1.0 Googlegrouper excessively crossposting; *thus that those who filter out googlegroupers *or* multiple group xposts will not see his post/question. *-and- Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive ... discordance between the subject 'replacing a mobo' and the actual message 'replacing the hdd'. -- Mike Easter Sorry about the incorrect subject line. It should have read "Replacin an OEM HD..." Must have been a brain-fart! |
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Replacing an OEM Mobo...
posted to one group a.c.h.p-h only; if JR doesn't read that group, he
won't see it Jimmy Roberts wrote: Do some newsgroups allow cross-posting and some newgroups discourage it? There are a number of problems with crossposting; and the most popular/common crossposting is done by -1- spammers -2- googlegroupers hoping to expose their question to as many as possible to get the most answers the fastest and -3- spamming googlegroupers Consequent to -1-, many many people who can filter, which doesn't include GGers, filter out all messages which are crossposted. The result of that filtering is that -2- the wish to expose your question all over the place - doesn't work, because many of the same people who do such xpost filtering are the ones who could answer your question. It is better to -a- search for an answer to your question with a websearch tool such as google and a usenet search tool such as googlegroups -b- notice which one single group's questions and replies are most appropriate for your question; or even find the answer to a question similar to your own by your search -c- before posting (or crossposting) a message into any group, familiarize yourself with what is going on in that particular group by reading some scores of messages in that group. That means that if you were crossposting, the -c- requirement would require you to not only read a lot of messages in 4 different groups, but also to subscribe to 4 different groups and follow the responses in 4 different groups, because... -d- ... there are many people like myself who do not post (or crosspost) a message into a group they don't read. Thus, if one of those people has the answer you want and you aren't reading all of the messages which are replies to your messages in all of the groups where you crossposted it, you won't see the reply which you wanted. -e- ... some newsservers filter out excessively crossposted messages because of -1- above, and the term 'excessive' means different things to different newsserver admins. -- Mike Easter |
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