First post, by markjw
Hi All,
First off, I'm new here so hi to everyone!
Got myself a Shuttle SN41G2 (FN41 motherboard) that has an Athlon XP 2700+, nForce2 chipset, 1GB RAM and has ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb AGP and Creative Audigy 2ZS PCI cards fitted. My plan is to get Windows 98SE running on the system for old games however I have an issue with drives and have had nothing but bad luck so far.
Drive #1 - Deskstar 400GB HDT725040VLAT80 - seems to be OK and is correctly detected by the BIOS - however only appears as around 50GB to 98SE and the jumper settings only offer a 32GB clip option
Drive #2 - WD1200JB 120GB - incorrectly detected by the BIOS as 8447MB - doesn't seem to be a jumper to limit the drive size and will not format so either not compatible or the drive has gone bad
Drives #3 & #4 - Samsung SV4084H 40GB - neither of these are detected by the system and a very noisy so suspecting they are both bad.
So as you can see I'm not doing that well so far! Options I can see going forward are:
1. Live with the 50GB'ish on the Deskstar
2. Find some way of making the Deskstar appear as a 120GB drive to be within the 98SE limits
3. Locate and purchase a used 120GB IDE drive off somewhere like eBay
4. Get a SATA to IDE converter and find a 120GB SATA drive
Would like anyone's thoughts and opinions and am open to other options, however there are no free PCI slots in the machine unless I remove the Audigy (which I would rather not have to do)
thanks, Mark