Re: Older PC with larger HD's
- From: thewises <thewises@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Aug 2006 14:20:25 GMT
Rick <rickajho@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:44F5BAA4.CBD03058@xxxxxxx:
David L. Beem wrote:
Hi Rick
Only 2G? That seems odd for a Pentium motherboard. EvenTo me it seemed more like a FAT16-derived number. My general
the 486 boards I've used allowed for up to 8.4G hard drives...
take is
that once you were through the 512Mb barrier it was easy sailing
until the 8Gb waves. BIOS manufacturers (and Phoenix did pretty good
at the time) usually follow what the chipset capabilities were. That
can often provide more data (reading & saying here the numbers of the
few large chip on the motherboard), or motherboard markings in
addition to listing the BIOS.
I was thinking that too, but didn't want to "go there" regarding the
2G per partitions FAT16 limit, since the OP didn't say what OS he was
running. You can find MP3 players that will work even with plain old
DOS. He said the BIOS was placing the limitation - not the operating
system.
Even a clone SOYO Pentium board I have, which has a CPU speed support
limit of 233 MHz, doesn't have any BIOS limits on hard drive sizes. I
put a 20G hard drive in that thing and the BIOS recognized it just
fine.
It's just puzzling to think that there may be an early pentium class
board out there with a 2G hard drive BIOS limit - but anything's
possible.
It will also tell what the CPU potential is. Even though there
is
motherboards that will stop at a P166 (and non-MMX, as my recent work
with a Gateway "Thor" motherboard) that seems an odd number to me
too. Bill might be better to get up to the MMX (166 is the bottom end
of that), even though it introduces the two voltage supply, his
motherboard, or one he could easily find would do it.
I'm a little more liberal than "just work with the system
without
upgrades" these days, especially with such low-cost parts available.
A common form-factor AT or ATX motherboard can be replaced so easily
by a better design (say the same capabilities otherwise, but the
abilities to run DIMMs instead). No, I'm not talking about the
upgrade escalator to go to XP, but enough of a system to take it over
the top of running W98SE very well, rather than W95 ordinarily (as
everyone knows, typically put as much RAM as you can on the older
systems).
I've been meaning to ask this question for a while: What's a
reasonable OS to put on a Pentium 233 MHz MMX CPU system with only 96
MB RAM? Win 95 ran on it ok. But is this just too slow and not enough
RAM to reasonably support Win 98 or Win 2000? (I've seen Win 98SE run
dog slow on Pentium III 800MHz systems with 128MB RAM)
I'll have you know that my Pentium/133 runs 98SE just fine (it has 80MB of
memory).
The computer I still do 99% of my work on is a 486VLB system with an
80586 processor installed, running DOS and WFWG.
I also use my Pentium for everything, but mainly because my 1Ghz Pentium IV
died (long story there).
.
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