First post, by boxpressed
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I've been tearing my hair out over the past few weeks trying to get my usually trusty Intel SE440BX-2 to work. For the longest time, I was running a 120GB HDD with no problems.
The problems started when the bootup would get stuck on the Intel splash screen for a long time. Sometimes it would work after that delay, and sometimes I would get an "Operating System Not Found" error.
I was pretty sure the problems had to do with the HDD because when I disconnected it, the bootup from floppy was fast.
I tried three different 440BX-2 mobos, three different power supplies, three different Slot 1 CPUs, a couple different CR2032s, and three different sticks of RAM and could replicate the problem.
It didn't seem right that five or six different HDDs and IDE cables would be malfunctioning.
But as a last resort, I put in an old 6GB HDD--and everything worked normally. I realized then that all of the other HDDs I tried were 40GB or more.
Does it seem possible that the board would suddenly stop being compatible with a large HDD? Does the P13 BIOS have a 32GB limit? Thanks for any help!