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PackardBell Legend 822CDT and IDE disk sizes?
On Feb 22, 7:32*am, "philo" wrote:
"metronid" wrote in message ... On Feb 20, 8:08 pm, "philo" wrote: "jglong3" wrote in message .. . Hello,,,,, I have a (circa)1995 Packard Bell Legend 822CDT with the PB600 Motherboard. The original BIOS has been upgraded. The files included in the update are PHFLASH.EXE, Autoexec.bak (a bat file to execute the PBFLASH), BIOS.ROM, BUILD.MAP, CRISDISK.BAT, MAKEBOOT.EXE, MINIDOS.SYS, and PLATFORM.BIN. There is a README.TXT which contains the following: Short Description: PB600 Agoura Flash BIOS Version 1.20 Disk 1 of 1 Long Description : PB600 Agoura Flash BIOS Version 1.20 Disk 1 of 1 Note: This BIOS upgrade is to resolve the Year 2000 issue. On Boot the BIOS displays the following: PhoenixBios Version 4.04 Copyright 1987-1995,,,,,,,, AGOURA release 1.20 Also, this system has been upgraded to the Windows98SE and is running as expected (GREAT) with 88MB RAM. No problems with the CIRRUS 5430/40 Graphics PCI card, the Axtech Sound Galaxy Washington 16 PCI card, or other devices. Several years back when disks greater than 5GB were evolving, I think Ben Meyrs, etc. commented on disk drive inserts relative to the IDE .vs. PCI controllers and drivers as well as the maximum size BIOS's and Windows could handle on the IDE. I tried looking for these comments but could not find them in this Newsgroup. Also, around 1999-2003 I found an artivcle that mentioned if a BIOS date is 1998 or newer all of the GBs on the larger size IDE drives should be available. At that time several systems with BIOS's 1998 or newer were upgraded with 20 and 40 gb drives on the IDE and the BIOS and Operating systems used all GBs on these IDE drives. For this PackardBell Legend 822CDT inserting more IDE Hard disks should not be a problem (IDE 1 Slave, IDE 2 MASTER and IDE 2 Slave are available). But, can this BIOS version handle a disk drive that is at or greater than 5GB????? If not, is there a BIOS update to allow IDE hard disks greater than 5GB???? If so, can you provide a link to that location????? THANKS for your Time, Advice, and Help. Jerry I have a PB Legend circa 1995 that came with an 850 meg HD The bios could recognize 8 gigs... but with drive overlay software you can go bigger...(such a EZ bios) as I later put in a 20 gig drive with no problems. For whatever reason...the machine would not recognize a PCI controller card.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - *Your PCI controller card may or may not be supported by the pci version on your computer. *Circa 1995 is to vague. *Download Sandra sisoft for more detailed info about you motherboard *Socket 4& *5 motherboards by PB *in general support pci 2.0 *Socket 7 support pci 2.1 *486 motherboards that do have the PCI riser card Most newer pci hd controller cards are PCI are pci 2.2 I think they once made a pci 2.0 card *that supported *10.4 gigs ata 33/66 Well, when I retired my machine I returned it pretty much the way it was originally. One other thing I might was well mention is that when I got the 20 gig drive... If I partitioned and formatted it on another machine... then put it in the PB...the OS *(Win98) could use the full 20 gigs even without the overlay software. The only thing is, dos utilites saw the drive as mis-configured... I imagine because the bios only reported the first 8 gigs... so to avoid any possible problems I used the overlay- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I have no problem with using overlay bios. It slows it down a little. Is it really not as bad a people say. If you keep your unit tuned with a program like registry mechanic or such as opposed to one that does not but has normal bios then the one with the registry optimizer is probably faster. |
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PackardBell Legend 822CDT and IDE disk sizes?
"metronid" wrote in message ... On Feb 22, 7:32 am, "philo" wrote: "metronid" wrote in message ... On Feb 20, 8:08 pm, "philo" wrote: "jglong3" wrote in message .. . Hello,,,,, I have a (circa)1995 Packard Bell Legend 822CDT with the PB600 Motherboard. The original BIOS has been upgraded. The files included in the update are PHFLASH.EXE, Autoexec.bak (a bat file to execute the PBFLASH), BIOS.ROM, BUILD.MAP, CRISDISK.BAT, MAKEBOOT.EXE, MINIDOS.SYS, and PLATFORM.BIN. There is a README.TXT which contains the following: Short Description: PB600 Agoura Flash BIOS Version 1.20 Disk 1 of 1 Long Description : PB600 Agoura Flash BIOS Version 1.20 Disk 1 of 1 Note: This BIOS upgrade is to resolve the Year 2000 issue. On Boot the BIOS displays the following: PhoenixBios Version 4.04 Copyright 1987-1995,,,,,,,, AGOURA release 1.20 Also, this system has been upgraded to the Windows98SE and is running as expected (GREAT) with 88MB RAM. No problems with the CIRRUS 5430/40 Graphics PCI card, the Axtech Sound Galaxy Washington 16 PCI card, or other devices. Several years back when disks greater than 5GB were evolving, I think Ben Meyrs, etc. commented on disk drive inserts relative to the IDE .vs. PCI controllers and drivers as well as the maximum size BIOS's and Windows could handle on the IDE. I tried looking for these comments but could not find them in this Newsgroup. Also, around 1999-2003 I found an artivcle that mentioned if a BIOS date is 1998 or newer all of the GBs on the larger size IDE drives should be available. At that time several systems with BIOS's 1998 or newer were upgraded with 20 and 40 gb drives on the IDE and the BIOS and Operating systems used all GBs on these IDE drives. For this PackardBell Legend 822CDT inserting more IDE Hard disks should not be a problem (IDE 1 Slave, IDE 2 MASTER and IDE 2 Slave are available). But, can this BIOS version handle a disk drive that is at or greater than 5GB????? If not, is there a BIOS update to allow IDE hard disks greater than 5GB???? If so, can you provide a link to that location????? THANKS for your Time, Advice, and Help. Jerry I have a PB Legend circa 1995 that came with an 850 meg HD The bios could recognize 8 gigs... but with drive overlay software you can go bigger...(such a EZ bios) as I later put in a 20 gig drive with no problems. For whatever reason...the machine would not recognize a PCI controller card.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Your PCI controller card may or may not be supported by the pci version on your computer. Circa 1995 is to vague. Download Sandra sisoft for more detailed info about you motherboard Socket 4& 5 motherboards by PB in general support pci 2.0 Socket 7 support pci 2.1 486 motherboards that do have the PCI riser card Most newer pci hd controller cards are PCI are pci 2.2 I think they once made a pci 2.0 card that supported 10.4 gigs ata 33/66 Well, when I retired my machine I returned it pretty much the way it was originally. One other thing I might was well mention is that when I got the 20 gig drive... If I partitioned and formatted it on another machine... then put it in the PB...the OS (Win98) could use the full 20 gigs even without the overlay software. The only thing is, dos utilites saw the drive as mis-configured... I imagine because the bios only reported the first 8 gigs... so to avoid any possible problems I used the overlay- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I have no problem with using overlay bios. It slows it down a little. Is it really not as bad a people say. If you keep your unit tuned with a program like registry mechanic or such as opposed to one that does not but has normal bios then the one with the registry optimizer is probably faster. Yes... I've always heard about how drive overlay software will give a performance hit... but I never noticed any difference... it always worked fine for me... even when I was using a P1 75 MHz, 40 megs of RAM and win98 Of course later moved the RAM up to 128 megs and put in a 200mhz cpu |
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