Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus

I was thinking about getting a 250 gig Maxtor hard drive. Does anyone know
if the Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus will recognize that large of a drive? I am
running Win Xp Pro. Not sure it matters but the processor is the x86 Family
6 Model 6 Authentic AMD 1466 Mhz.
Thanks for the help...
tcoop

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tcoop wrote:

I was thinking about getting a 250 gig Maxtor hard drive. Does anyone know
if the Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus will recognize that large of a drive? I am
running Win Xp Pro. Not sure it matters but the processor is the x86
Family 6 Model 6 Authentic AMD 1466 Mhz.
Thanks for the help...
tcoop

The manual for the board:
http://www.soyousa.com/dl/manuals/k7/mK7VXA13.pdf
doesn't show an upper limit.

You may need an upgrade to your BIOS: (the link may be split over two lines)

http://www.soyousa.com/downloads
selectresults.php?language=&col1=Motherboard&col2= 37&col3=BIOS+Upgrade

Buy the drive, plug it in, and try it; you may need to use the drive's
installation software if it is supplied.

If the system can see the entire drive: terrific!

Should the system not see the entire drive I would strongly suggest using an
add-in IDE interface from Promise, Maxtor, or SiiG to handle the drive.
The Promise 'Lite' interface on the mainboard will *not* be sufficient as it
uses the system BIOS.


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Ron n1zhi

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