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GA-586DX need a custom bios hard drive issue

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First post, by Turboman

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Hey guys, I have a GA-586DX dual socket 7, I have the latest bios installed. I have been having nothing but problems with this board, I can not get anything over 8gb to be detected in the bios, I have no idea why a board this new has such a limitation. I was wondering what I could do? can anyone create a custom bios to allow for larger HD support? I have attached the bios from Gigabytes website. I have been trying to use the SCSI 2 port but I don't know if I am doing something wrong. I can see the hard drive in the Adaptec bios, I tried both win 2K and XP, I can finish the part where all the files are copied but when the PC restarts it says disk read error and then I can not finish the installation. I'm not very experienced with SCSI setup.

Reply 1 of 2, by Rackatack

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Hello, what options do you have in your bios regarding the hard drives? Do you have an option to change the drive type?

Reply 2 of 2, by Mamba

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Hi Turboman,

I owned a Ga-586DX board years ago.
I remember I had the same issue, I asked Jan Steunebrink to help with the bios ( http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm ).
But it seems that the board is simply not capable to handle nothing more than 8gb hard disk.

The best option is to install a Promise ATA100 PCI card.

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