Packard Bell bios not recognizing all of hard drive

[CookingnBrewing]

Hello,

I just found this forum and hope it can help me revive an old computer for my workshop. In looking at a past posting, my Packard Bell is pretty much described as the same as a posting from an individual called Eye_of_the_Tiger here on previous postings.

I was told the problem is likely that the bios needs to be updated in order for this computer to recognize all 8 GB of the main drive. At present, it only recognizes the first 2 GB and therefor shows the drive is nearly full already.

The version of Biso I see on boot up is:

Award Modular Bios v4.51PG
Packard Bell Bios FR500 v1.03

This computer is a 333 MHz AMD K-6 3D processor with 128 MB of RAM


Can anyone help walk me through how I can fix this please? I have a more modern computer for my main office work and the Packard Bell is one I thought I could use out in my woodworking shop.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks,

Tim

[dammit]

Hi buddy welcome to CTH :wave:

See if you can find the info you need here (http://support.packardbell.com/uk/download/) ;)

[jtdoom]

hi

found two mentions of FR500 on this page

http://support.packardbell.com/uk/mypc/?PibItemNr=platform_legacy_PB&PibLinkGroup=2000#show

a version 2.0 is posted LATER than the version 2.06, and the technical note says somerthing about an IRQ problem some boards have with versions 2.05 and/or 2.06

PLEASE VERIFY THAT THIS FR500 relates to your motherboard by comparing the modelnumbers for which it applies

[huggy_bear]

the drive is formated in fat 16 which only supports up to 2 gb
download a windows 98 disk and format the drive with that
ull probibly have to fisk it 1st