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Upgrading 4550
I just purchased another hard drive ( a Seagate 160 gig ultra ATA/100) that I would like to put in our 4550 as a second. Can I do this? Is there anything I need to do before or after? Dimension 4550 Pentium 4 Processor at 2.0 GHz
512MB DDR SDRAM at 266MHz
64MB GeForce4 MX Graphics Card with TV Out
40GB ATA-100 7200 RPM
XP Home
512MB DDR SDRAM at 266MHz
64MB GeForce4 MX Graphics Card with TV Out
40GB ATA-100 7200 RPM
XP Home
PETER345
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December 16th, 2005 04:00
1. The primary slave is enabled in the bios (presuming you are putting the drive on the primary rather than the secondary controller).
2. That the jumpers for both drives are set correctly. Normally Dells are jumper for "Cable select". If you jumper the new drive the same way, it should work fine. Otherwise, make sure one is jumpered for master and one for slave.
When you boot the first time, check to see if the drive is detected during the POST.
The one thing I am not sure about is whether there will be any problem with BIOS issues and a drive that size. I think some BIOS's can only recognize partitions up to 137G, but I could be wrong.
Good luck,
Peter
Majestic
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December 16th, 2005 10:00