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Socket A Motherboard Question

  • 24-10-2005 12:27pm
    #1
    strat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭


    I have an old Athlon XP pc here what I’m considering upgrading the motherboard on. I'm wondering if there are any socket A chipsets that allow big drives to be connected, bigger than the 137gb cut off that is an issue on so many. I have a few 200gb drives I have connected to controller cards already but if i can connect these to the onboard ATA controllers then it would free up some slots.
    Anyone know if such a chipset exists?


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  • #2
    jozi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,391 ✭✭✭jozi


    Did you check to see if there is an bios update available? Could be that with a new bios the mobo does address 137+gig drives. Have to say thou with the 3 sktA mobo's ive used all of them could address more than 137gigs, sure its not windows maybe??? What version are you using?

    Jozi


  • #3
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Every socket A board I've used in the last couple of years supported big drives anyway. The two I owned myself were an Abit NF7-S 2.0 (nforce 2) and an MSI KT3 ultra (some via chipset).


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    There are plenty of Socket A's out that will handle big drives. I have an Abit VA-20 at home. It's a microAtx form factor, but it has support for 2 x SATA + 4 x IDE/133. Drives. I'm running my home server on it.


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