Re: What IDE Drive for my 5 year old Dell8200

Thanks for that info, from that can I assume that with XPSP2 i should be able to
use an HDD bigger than the dell statement of 100GB?

Steve
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The Intel 850 Chipset employs a 82801BA ICH controller. It does
provide 48-Bit LBA ( Logical Block Addressing ).

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Have found that the motherboard is Dell 7E598, have found some for sale but
only info found so far is

Form Factor ATX
Processor a.. Support for an Intel? Pentium? 4 processor in a PGA478 s
1.5 - 2.0

Memory a.. Four Rambus Memory Slots Up To 4Gb

Chipset Intel? 850 Chipset
I/O Control SMSC LPC47M172 LPC bus I/O controller
Audio Audio subsystem AC97 3D Sound
Video AGP Slot
Peripheral Interfaces a.. Two USB ports
b.. One serial port
c.. One parallel port
d.. Two Parallel
e.. Dual IDE interfaces
f.. One diskette drive interface
g.. PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports

Expansion Capabilities 2 PCI Slots


Not sure if this means anything to anybody as to whether i can use a 160GB
HDD on it.

Thanks
Steve



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Hi Anna
Yes it is a Dimension8200

I asked Dell if it was 100GB in total and they said yes, I asked if i could
use 2 of them and they said only 100GB in total.
I am running XPSP2 and once if replace my Floppy Drive I will upgrade the
Bios to A09 (latest on dell downlaods).

If i was to put a large (say 160GB) disk in as a slave and it is recognised
in the Bios and once formatted indicates about +150GB in My Computer then
can I presume it is OK to use. I want to clone my existing 60GB disk to the
new 160GB disk.

The RDRAM is great, never had a problem with it, have now got 1250MB
installed but the P4 1.9GHz could do with being a bit faster as it's not as
quick as it could be!!

Thanks
Steve

I wouldn't trust Dell tech support. Get the model number of your
motherboard and look up it's specs online direct from the manufacturer.
My PC is 4+ years old and works just fine. I don't really have any speed
issues, running an AMD Athlon 1 GHz with 512 MB RAM on a K7S5A MB with 2
hard drives, a 120GB and a 40GB. I don't believe I've done any BIOS
updates. Both my hard drives are WD 7200, which I recommend if you're on a
budget. If you feel a need for speed and have some extra cash, look into a
Raptor drive.







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