Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Dumb and Dumber
Been trying to fix up an older computer for the past few days. All I get was fustrations and more fustrations. Its a P3 450Mhz Creative Blaster PC which my parent bought 4-5 years ago.
Though its tedious to merge new technology with the old Mobo(mother board), I get to experience/discover new ways of fixing the computer. It seems that after a few years, Mobo manufacturer do release newer fixed Bios. For older computer, the maximum Hard disk space which the Mobo can support is only 32GB. Getting newer bios should increase the hdd space support. Nowadays people tend to ignore such cheaper ways of upgrading their computers. Flashing the bios(reprogramming the bios with a more updated version) can mean an increase in performance of the computer or better support of the current or newer hardwares.
I have been racking my brains, trying to think of a better way for the old Mobo to support a 40GB Maxtor Hard disk. Its only after 4 days of late sleeping that I finally remembered, you can limit the capacity of any hard disk to 32GB by shorting the 2nd last 2 rows of pin.... Dumb eh? Well hope these piece of information is useful ^^
Been trying to fix up an older computer for the past few days. All I get was fustrations and more fustrations. Its a P3 450Mhz Creative Blaster PC which my parent bought 4-5 years ago.
Though its tedious to merge new technology with the old Mobo(mother board), I get to experience/discover new ways of fixing the computer. It seems that after a few years, Mobo manufacturer do release newer fixed Bios. For older computer, the maximum Hard disk space which the Mobo can support is only 32GB. Getting newer bios should increase the hdd space support. Nowadays people tend to ignore such cheaper ways of upgrading their computers. Flashing the bios(reprogramming the bios with a more updated version) can mean an increase in performance of the computer or better support of the current or newer hardwares.
I have been racking my brains, trying to think of a better way for the old Mobo to support a 40GB Maxtor Hard disk. Its only after 4 days of late sleeping that I finally remembered, you can limit the capacity of any hard disk to 32GB by shorting the 2nd last 2 rows of pin.... Dumb eh? Well hope these piece of information is useful ^^
# posted by Pairdes : 3/29/2006 10:54:00 AM
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