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by swat3commander 1 view

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Hello , I brought a 120 gb hdd for my computer.
Motherboard Properties
Motherboard ID 08/28/1998-i440BX-W977TF-2A69KF29C-00
Motherboard Name ECS P6BX-ATX

Front Side Bus Properties
Bus Type Intel GTL+
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 100 MHz
Effective Clock 100 MHz
Bandwidth 800 MB/s

Memory Bus Properties
Bus Type SDR SDRAM
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 100 MHz
Effective Clock 100 MHz
Bandwidth 800 MB/s

Motherboard Manufacturer
Company Name Elitegroup Computer Systems Inc.
Product Information http://www.ecsusa.com/products
BIOS Download http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/bios.html

I have tried to find the BIOS but have had no luck. So, I went and brought a ultra 133 pci card for my seagate barracuda hhd. I have installed the pci card and the computer will not take it. The drive Primary and master registered as none. Then the direction instructed me to used window 2000 boot disk and install as a sisi or raid controller.I followed the step and still this card is not registering. My hard drive nad the BIOS in this card becomes disable. I do see it as a mass storage on my irg. No conflicts. I have gone into cmos and change all hhd type to auto or lba no change. I would like to know what I can do to get this card to work in my computer. I presently have the jumper setting to accept only 32< gb I have lost 88 gb of space or have I?If the computer is not registering the other 88 gb where are they. I am sorry for a long post but I wanted to be very detail about this so I can get good feedback.
Thanks

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by thechas

First, you need to identify which of the 6 or so P6-BX motherboards you have.

If you do not use the CORRECT BIOS file, you may loose your motherboard.

Second, with an IDE controller card, your drives do NOT show up in BIOS settings.

You normally need to set the BIOS to boot from SCSI to boot from a drive connected to a PCI IDE card.

If the W2K install works the same way as XP, there is a spot where you are prompted to load a 3rd party controller driver.
At the prompt, you should load the driver for the IDE card.
Then, you should be able to install W2K using the entire drive if so desired.

At this point, to regain full use of the drive, you have 2 options:

1. Start over. Begin by deleting ALL partitions on the drive.

2. Use a 3rd party solution, such as Partition Magic, or Partition Commander.

Chas

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