Re: P90 won't recognise more than 500MB

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From: leo
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <816388484snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk>
           nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk "Nikki Locke" writes:

> I have recently rebuilt a Pentium P90 - I took out the SCSI drives for use
> in a new machine, and replaced them with an 800MB IDE drive attached to 
> the motherboard controller. This is an early (last year) P90, _without_ a 
> Triton chipset, and with an AMI BIOS.
> 
> DOS fdisk does not recognise more than 500+odd MB. Installing Windows 95 
> doesn't seem to help. Are there any Win95 settings I can tweak to get back
> the extra 300MB? Or should I change the BIOS settings? Or look at a BIOS 
> upgrade?
> 


Check through the BIOS settings - it should be possible to get large drive
support 


-- 
leo

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