Compaq5190 HD upgrade

I'm looking at this Compaq 5190 Presario I've inherited. I checked out its
primitive BIOS by doing an f10 and I'm wondering: Does anyone know; if I
put a larger (13G) drive in it, will it autodetect and run? If not, is there
any kind of BIOS upgrade for the thing?
Thanks,
Mike

If the current hard drive is over 8GB, it should support any drive up to
127GB.

Tom
"r" wrote in message
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I'm looking at this Compaq 5190 Presario I've inherited. I checked out
its
primitive BIOS by doing an f10 and I'm wondering: Does anyone know; if I
put a larger (13G) drive in it, will it autodetect and run? If not, is
there
any kind of BIOS upgrade for the thing?
Thanks,
Mike

Thanks Tom...that makes sense.
Hmmmm....I think this is a 5G drive...that's bad isn't it? I'm gonna need a
bios, some kind of compatible eide HD controller or a new motherboard.
Am I looking at any extraordinary probs putting a new moboard and HD in it?





"Tom Scales" wrote in message
...
If the current hard drive is over 8GB, it should support any drive up to
127GB.

Tom
"r" wrote in message
...
I'm looking at this Compaq 5190 Presario I've inherited. I checked out
its
primitive BIOS by doing an f10 and I'm wondering: Does anyone know; if
I
put a larger (13G) drive in it, will it autodetect and run? If not, is
there
any kind of BIOS upgrade for the thing?
Thanks,
Mike

Maybe not. A simple controller card should fix the problem if it doesn't
work. Many BIG drives come bundled with the card (my 250GB WD did). I'd
leave the little drive in as a boot drive and put in a second drive as a
data drive.

I wouldn't do a Motherboard upgrade. Just not good economics.

Tom
"r" wrote in message
...
Thanks Tom...that makes sense.
Hmmmm....I think this is a 5G drive...that's bad isn't it? I'm gonna need
a
bios, some kind of compatible eide HD controller or a new motherboard.
Am I looking at any extraordinary probs putting a new moboard and HD in
it?





"Tom Scales" wrote in message
...
If the current hard drive is over 8GB, it should support any drive up to
127GB.

Tom
"r" wrote in message
...
I'm looking at this Compaq 5190 Presario I've inherited. I checked
out
its
primitive BIOS by doing an f10 and I'm wondering: Does anyone know;
if
I
put a larger (13G) drive in it, will it autodetect and run? If not, is
there
any kind of BIOS upgrade for the thing?
Thanks,
Mike

Thanks Tom...sounds like the way to go...
Mike

"Tom Scales" wrote in message
...
Maybe not. A simple controller card should fix the problem if it doesn't
work. Many BIG drives come bundled with the card (my 250GB WD did). I'd
leave the little drive in as a boot drive and put in a second drive as a
data drive.

I wouldn't do a Motherboard upgrade. Just not good economics.

Tom
"r" wrote in message
...
Thanks Tom...that makes sense.
Hmmmm....I think this is a 5G drive...that's bad isn't it? I'm gonna
need
a
bios, some kind of compatible eide HD controller or a new motherboard.
Am I looking at any extraordinary probs putting a new moboard and HD in
it?





"Tom Scales" wrote in message
...
If the current hard drive is over 8GB, it should support any drive up
to
127GB.

Tom
"r" wrote in message
...
I'm looking at this Compaq 5190 Presario I've inherited. I checked
out
its
primitive BIOS by doing an f10 and I'm wondering: Does anyone know;
if
I
put a larger (13G) drive in it, will it autodetect and run? If not,
is
there
any kind of BIOS upgrade for the thing?
Thanks,
Mike