It appears that I do have a PATA drive, as it has the same sockets (plugs?) as in all the pictures from wikipedia and Google, and differs from the SATA connections. I also noticed that the RAM can go all the way to 128 MB, so currently, I have half of what I could have. I'll do some testing with various harddrives.<br>
<br>Thanks everyone for the help!<br><br>Jon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/27 Michael H. Warfield <<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 06:52 -0400, Jon Reagan wrote:<br>
> Thanks, everyone. The memory (RAM) apparently has 4 chips, but I<br>
> noticed I had only half the RAM when I removed just one.<br>
<br>
> Is there any place I can look to see the maximum harddrive size that I<br>
> could get? (in BIOS, etc.)<br>
<br>
</div> Having been down this road several times... Yes... But it's not easy.<br>
Write down the make and model of your motherboard and then note the make<br>
and version of your BIOS when it boots up. Get everything, even if it<br>
means rebooting several times (my average is 3 to 4 reboots to get every<br>
string of numbers). I suppose you might also find it by doing a string<br>
search through memory but I've never tried it.<br>
<br>
If the BIOS predates about 2000, your probably going to have trouble<br>
much above 20G. IIRC, 20G will work and 80G will not (at least with the<br>
older motherboards I tried). Do a google search on that motherboard and<br>
look up the latest BIOS available for it. Look through the revisions<br>
for any changes relating to drive size and compare your revision to that<br>
revision change. If you predate that revision change, you'll have to<br>
reflash your BIOS. If you postdate that revision change you may still<br>
want to reflash your BIOS but you probably don't have to.<br>
<br>
This article has more information on hard drive and BIOS limitations:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/resolving_drive_barriers.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/resolving_drive_barriers.htm</a><br>
<br>
The symptoms you will experience, if you have an older BIOS (and I've<br>
had this happen with Phoenix, AMD, and Award BIOS's) is that the BIOS<br>
will hang when it's testing the IDE drives. So you have to upgrade that<br>
BIOS before connecting the large hard drive or you will not boot at all.<br>
<br>
> Thanks,<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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> Jon<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:39 AM, William Bagwell <<a href="mailto:rb211@tds.net">rb211@tds.net</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> On Saturday 26 April 2008, JK wrote:<br>
> > James Sumners wrote:<br>
><br>
> > > 2) RAM for that thing is going to be pricey. If memory<br>
> serves, it will<br>
> > > be 72 pin SIMMs[1]. And you might have to install them in<br>
> pairs. So<br>
> > > you wouldn't be able to install just one 128MB chip. You<br>
> would have to<br>
> > > install two 128MB chips at the same time. I never had a<br>
> PPro so I<br>
> > > can't say that for certain.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > [1] --<br>
> <a href="http://crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=8F6080A28C0EB3BE" target="_blank">http://crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=8F6080A28C0EB3BE</a><br>
> ><br>
> > eBay might be worth a shot, as well. Though you may have to<br>
> buy five<br>
> > sticks to get two working ones.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Or possibly computer shows. Another problem the OP may<br>
> encounter, RAM back<br>
> then was in diffrent densities. Had an old P1 200 that maxed<br>
> out at 128MB,<br>
> yet I was never able to get it to see more than half of that.<br>
> Tried various<br>
> combinations through the years and never succeeded. In most<br>
> cases, other old<br>
> computers could see the full size so it was not like I was<br>
> being sold<br>
> mis-labled stuff.<br>
><br>
> Poor old thing died about a year ago at about 11 years old!<br>
> RIP <sniff><br>
> --<br>
> William<br>
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