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Old Dell SE440BX-3 board Intel
Trying to find out if this old Dell/Intel board supports 48 bit LBA. Have had not luck finding info on Dell or Intel so far. Have found info that there is no bios upgrade for this board, made by Intel for Dell only.
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December 21st, 2008 14:00
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No, I believe the SE440BX-3, is Dell XPS Txxx series motherboard, you should be able to install a IDE 60gb hard drive without a problem.
For a 60gb to 120gb harddrive, you will need to upgrade the BIOS to version A11. For any drive larger than 137gb you will hit a BIOS limitation and need to use a PCI IDE/ATA Controller Card.
Is your motherboard similar to THIS
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December 21st, 2008 17:00
Cannot be sure if my board is similar at the minute. I have been told that either my motherboard bios or pci controller bios does not support 48 bit lba by W/D. That info brought about my posted question as I could not find any info at Dell or Intel.
The system is a xps 600t with a powerleap, xphome sp3, & a w/d 250gb hd that only shows 137. Some how I lost about 100gb of this drive. Some time back the drive did show as 137 & the balance as unallocated. Don't know what I have done or what may have happend that this changed. Have run W/D data lifeguard tools and it states that there is no unallocated space, and the size LBA sectors 137.44gb, CHS 255.63 (137.44gb). The drive adapter is a promise ultra 133TX2 controller, that I upgraded from a 66. I have been living with this loss for some time, and I have finally decided it is time for me to correct the problem. So far the W/D knowledge base has not helped either, or I have not tried the correct fix. Checked disk management and disk 0 shows 128.00 gb ntfs healthy system -- no unallocated. Next two items listed are a cd rom :D, and cdrw rom :E. The computer when purchased came with w98se and was upgraded to XP home and I have done all of the security and MS updates. The current driver for the harddrive is 5.1.2535.0, the Intel 82371 pci bus master ide controller driver is 5.1.2600.2180, the Promise ultra 133tx2 controller driver is 2.0.0.43. The motherboard is an Intel SE440BX-3 via Dell, and the Intel system check tells me that I don't have an Intel mother board. The chip set is 440 -82440BX-82443BX and the Intel accelerator program does not list the 440 chip set as being one supported for this chip set. When I check for the file version for the atapi I find it to be 5.1.2600.5512 not the .1135 that the MS Q303013 tells me it should be. I have also run the Enable Big Lba tool checker and it tells me it is ok as Windows Service pack 3 is installed.
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December 21st, 2008 18:00
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As you have install a IDE promise controller card, this has it's own BIOS controller and the XPS Txxx Series BIOS are not needed for the hard drive.
Have you tried Promise Technology's support for the answer, see HERE
A thought, for XP to recognize a larger than 137gb hard drive, you need to install XP SP1, or higher, not XP with a SP1/SP2/SP3 upgrade
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December 26th, 2008 12:00
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See if THIS can help.
Bev.
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December 26th, 2008 12:00
Here is further background on the system. It started out at w98se factory installed by Dell, upgraded by me to xp sp2, and then converted to ntfs. In system properties, General tab, service pack 3 is listed. In my registry settings I do not have the EnableBigLba in the parameters section. Could the adding of this to the registry, as stated in pctools.com article take care of my problem?
dg