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Motherboards - Asus A7V8X-X maximum HDD size posted in the Hardware forums; Im looking to get a new IDE Hard Drive to replace the 5 year old 80GIG that died. I can't seem to find any info on the maximum capacity size ...

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Im looking to get a new IDE Hard Drive to replace the 5 year old 80GIG that died. I can't seem to find any info on the maximum capacity size the motherboard will recognize. I want to go between a 160gig to a 320 gig. I also currently have a 120gig which my PC does recognize. Also would I have to upgrade the BIOS as well?

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POWER SUPPLY: Coolmax, Model: AP-450X(V-400), sorry dont know "number of amps on +12V rail(s)."
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS A7V8X-X, sorry dont know what "socket type" means
CPU: AMD Athlon Barton XP 2500+
RAM: DDR 1gig
VIDEO CARD: ATI Radeion 9550 AGP 8x/4x 256 MB
HARD DRIVE: Western Digital Caviar Enhanced IDE HD, Model: WD800JB-00ETA0
OS: Win xp home SP2

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Marco it should easily take 250 gig HDD in my opinion.As a main HDD.


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But is there a way to know for certain since I cant return the drive once its bought.

I looked up "EnableBigLba" and found that since I'll be installing winXP service Pack 1, then there is no need for any software change. Am I correct?

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I have same mainboard on a pc upstairs and it has 250 gig HDD fitted and was formatted to XP at one time.

Installing XP with SP1 you should realy download at least SP2 once formatted so you can keep the system up to date properly.


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