Tomay 0 Posted January 24, 2003 ;( I have a WDC WD205BA 20gig hdd on a QDI BrillianX IS/2000. When I autodetect the hdd it detects it correctly TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE USER 20523 2495 255 0 39769 63 LBA But the nex time I boot even if I press ctrl+alt+del the disk turns into a 7927MB drive, or at least the bios reports it as sutch. Standard cmos menu: TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE User 7921 963 255 0 39769 63 LBA The drive seems to work ok even with this settings (XP sees drive as 20Gb) Has anyone had similar problems? I tested the WD200EB 20GB drive and it works correctly with no problems. It only comes up with the WD205BA. I'm going to test it on another motherboard, but I doub it will show the same error, cos I asume the error is bios related (Yes I have the latest bios). I don't know if this is just a cosmetic error or can it do harm. As a workaround I've set the drive on autodetect, so it's detected on every boot. SYSTEM: Windows XP SP1 HDD: WDC WD205BA MOBO: QDI BrillianX IS/2000 CPU: celeron 300A RAM: 128Mb spacewalker GPU: inno3d geforce2 MX 200 SCSI: Initio INI-9090-U BIOS Ver 1.09 CDROM: SCSI TEAC CD-R55S SOUND: Creative awe64 LAN: Compex RL2000 PCI Share this post Link to post
Marktait 0 Posted January 24, 2003 have you looked on the manufacture's website to see if there are any FAQ's on this issue? Share this post Link to post