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From: Roland Scheidegger on 20 Jan 2006 22:49
Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> DaveW wrote:
>> You would have to update the motherboard's BIOS in order to use a
>> harddrive larger than 137 GB.
>
> No. According to asus, all boards manufactured after 1st jan 2003
> support hds larger than 137 GB without updating the bios - and the
> a7v8x-x (in contrast to the a7v8x) was released half a year later I
> believe (though not sure).
> Not that it wouldn't hurt, if windows is new enough and it still doesn't
> work it's certainly worth a try.
Err, that should be "not that it would hurt" of course, a new bios is
always a good idea (especially if you run a very early version).

Roland
From: Philip Wright on 21 Jan 2006 07:38
My A7V8X-X has a Hitachi 160Gb drive and all of it is recognized
by the BIOS, by Windows XP SP2, and by Fedora Linux Core 4.
Some drives have a jumper that "clips" them to a reduced size
for older BIOSes and the jumper has to be removed or moved to
enable the full capacity of the drive. Look at your jumper block
and check your documentation.

Good luck!
Philip

The Wanderer wrote:
> I have the A7V8X-X motherboard. I also have a WD 250 GB hard drive.
> Computer is only recognizing 127GB hard drive. Does this motherboard
> support large hard drives and if so how can I get mine to recognize it.
> I'm a newby so go easy. Thanks for the help.
From: tomcas on 25 Jan 2006 20:15
The Wanderer wrote:
> I have the A7V8X-X motherboard. I also have a WD 250 GB hard drive.
> Computer is only recognizing 127GB hard drive. Does this motherboard
> support large hard drives and if so how can I get mine to recognize it.
> I'm a newby so go easy. Thanks for the help.
What OS and service pack level are you using?
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