First post, by nizce
Hi,
Got a Packard Bell with a ms-6168 rev2 motherboard.
It comes with AMI bios as standard but reflashed it to the latest Award bios i could find, v1.3.
However I’ve got no clue how big HDD it supports, more than that the v1.3 MSI award bios changelog states:
“-Fixed system hang when IDE HDD size over 65GB”
But as soon as I try to partition my 120GB SSD disk it hangs.
I’m able to create and initialize the first two primary partitions without any problem, first 512MB, second 4GB. But when creating and initializing a logical partition for the rest of the free space it hangs.
I’ve tried to use seatools to limit the capacity of the SSD to 90GB and 100GB but still the same issue.
Think I managed to partition the disk when I limited it to total 32GB(before updating the BIOS, so the disk should work)
Anyone know if this might be a problem with the disk or simply the BIOS having a limit between 65GB and 90GB?
Also another strange thing is that I cannot run seatools on that computer, it simply exits with some page fault error when trying to start it.
So I’ve had to connect the disk to my other computer running P3B-F which happily launches seatools(using sea gates bootable CD)
Any idea what could cause this? Also related to the bios perhaps not being able to handle the size of the disk?