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C. Presario 7QSM11 (7000z-series) Installed a new 120GB HD but cant see more than 23G



 
 
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Old January 16th 05, 05:10 PM
bdubslawman
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Default C. Presario 7QSM11 (7000z-series) Installed a new 120GB HD but cant see more than 23G


Ben Myers Wrote:[color=blue][i]
Not exactly a governor. We have a governor in Massachusetts to limit
the speed
of OUR progress. The motherboard BIOS has a built-in limitation on
hard disk
capacity, just like the BIOSes of motherboards before and motherboards
of the
future. They all have some sort of BIOS limit at some point, because
drives of
a given capacity weren't built or designed when the motherboard was.

The only choices are to stick to drives no bigger than the BIOS limit
for a
notebook computer, to do the same for a desktop computer, or to buy a
3rd party
disk controller card (e.g. Promise) with its own disk BIOS to replace
the one in
the motherboard. I'm not sure if Unicore would offer a flash BIOS
replacement
for the 7000z motherboard, but that's another remote possibility to
try.

The frustrating part is that the motherboard BIOS is a small
hand-written
program that cannot be easily changed because it is burned into flash
memory.
If the computer was running Linux, this message thread would never have
started,
because Linux was written by smart programmers who know how to deal
with BIOS
limitations... Ben Myers

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:53:02 +0000, bdubslawman
wrote:



First, the BIOS that I Flashed correctly reports- WD 120JBGB hard
drive.

Second, as I wrote, this is NOT a BIOS LIMITATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HP/Compaq support was kind enough to confirm this.

I am freaking going out of my mind here. NNNOOOTTT AAA BBBIIIOOOSSS
LLLIIIMMMIIITTTAAATTTIIIOOONNN!

So although I am going to try it, because a guy offered me one from
another tech board for only the cost of S/H, a Controller card is not
likely the answer to my problem. But I don't care because I found a
60GB hard drive.

All I know is any company that was that short sighted in there building
practices, is never going to get my business! Next one I build myself.

Mr Bios would have one (custom bios) or would write one if that were
the problem!

NO SISTER FOR YOU!


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bdubslawman
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Old January 16th 05, 11:08 PM
Ben Myers
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What the BIOS reports about and how it works with a hard drive are unfortunately
independent of one another, i.e. separately written, possibly by two different
BIOS programmers. It's like the left hand does not know what the right hand is
doing. I've run into a similar situation with the BIOS in the small form factor
Compaq DeskPro Pentium III boxes, and with other manufacturers' systems as well.

FWIW, the original 7000z was outfitted with a 60GB hard drive, so the 60GB you
have ought to work just fine. Compaq had the 7000z motherboard built by a 3rd
party. It is a 1200MHz Athlon, which places its age in the late Pentium 3 era.
It is not surprising to see this sort of BIOS limitation, but it is downright
disappointing and plain STUPID of Compaq. I think we can agree on that one,
even if there is no agreement yet about what to do with or to your possibly
fictional sister.

.... Ben Myers

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:10:37 +0000, bdubslawman
wrote:
[color=blue][i]

Ben Myers Wrote:
Not exactly a governor. We have a governor in Massachusetts to limit
the speed
of OUR progress. The motherboard BIOS has a built-in limitation on
hard disk
capacity, just like the BIOSes of motherboards before and motherboards
of the
future. They all have some sort of BIOS limit at some point, because
drives of
a given capacity weren't built or designed when the motherboard was.

The only choices are to stick to drives no bigger than the BIOS limit
for a
notebook computer, to do the same for a desktop computer, or to buy a
3rd party
disk controller card (e.g. Promise) with its own disk BIOS to replace
the one in
the motherboard. I'm not sure if Unicore would offer a flash BIOS
replacement
for the 7000z motherboard, but that's another remote possibility to
try.

The frustrating part is that the motherboard BIOS is a small
hand-written
program that cannot be easily changed because it is burned into flash
memory.
If the computer was running Linux, this message thread would never have
started,
because Linux was written by smart programmers who know how to deal
with BIOS
limitations... Ben Myers

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:53:02 +0000, bdubslawman
wrote:



First, the BIOS that I Flashed correctly reports- WD 120JBGB hard
drive.

Second, as I wrote, this is NOT a BIOS LIMITATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HP/Compaq support was kind enough to confirm this.

I am freaking going out of my mind here. NNNOOOTTT AAA BBBIIIOOOSSS
LLLIIIMMMIIITTTAAATTTIIIOOONNN!

So although I am going to try it, because a guy offered me one from
another tech board for only the cost of S/H, a Controller card is not
likely the answer to my problem. But I don't care because I found a
60GB hard drive.

All I know is any company that was that short sighted in there building
practices, is never going to get my business! Next one I build myself.

Mr Bios would have one (custom bios) or would write one if that were
the problem!

NO SISTER FOR YOU!


--
bdubslawman


 




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