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I have a MSI 875 Motherboard, 1 GB ram pc-3500, one 40 GB
IDE HD working fine, cd, dvd and floppy.
I have no SCSI devices.
The motherboard is serial ATA capable and I have been to
the MSI website to seek new updates, etc.
I added a 250 GB Serial ATA drive.
It has no jumpers installed on the drive.
The serial cable plugs directly onto the motherboard in a
dedicated serial conection. (no serial controller card)
The BIOS serial setting is set to enable.
Windows XP see the drive but only as about a 32 GB IDE HD.
I have seen the serial controllers in Device Manager and
they say working properly.
I have updated to Win XP-SP1, then I manually went in and
did "hotfix" on Atapi.sys file and get the correct verion
installed. For some reason SP-1 did not install the newest
version file.
Then I did a "Regedit" to check to see if the
setting "EnableBigLba" was enabled and there ws no such
setting in the registery.
I manually drilled down to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\
Parameters\
and there was no EnableBigLba setting.
Please help, I have reached the limits of my hardware
knowledge and I really want this new HD to work properly.
thanks
IDE HD working fine, cd, dvd and floppy.
I have no SCSI devices.
The motherboard is serial ATA capable and I have been to
the MSI website to seek new updates, etc.
I added a 250 GB Serial ATA drive.
It has no jumpers installed on the drive.
The serial cable plugs directly onto the motherboard in a
dedicated serial conection. (no serial controller card)
The BIOS serial setting is set to enable.
Windows XP see the drive but only as about a 32 GB IDE HD.
I have seen the serial controllers in Device Manager and
they say working properly.
I have updated to Win XP-SP1, then I manually went in and
did "hotfix" on Atapi.sys file and get the correct verion
installed. For some reason SP-1 did not install the newest
version file.
Then I did a "Regedit" to check to see if the
setting "EnableBigLba" was enabled and there ws no such
setting in the registery.
I manually drilled down to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\
Parameters\
and there was no EnableBigLba setting.
Please help, I have reached the limits of my hardware
knowledge and I really want this new HD to work properly.
thanks