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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 -

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Do some newsgroups allow cross-posting and some newgroups discourage
it?

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

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!

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