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Originally posted by tritium
What brand of BIOS? Phoenix?
The computer is 2 years old, but the HDD is new. Right?
yes, the hdd is brand new. How can my pc tell me what type of BIOS i use>
Have you run the Maxtor boot utility that came on CDROM with the harddrive?
the damn hard disk came with my invoice. not one thing else.
How makes your motherboard?
First International Computers, Inc.
IDE 100/33/66? What kind of ribbon cable? SATA?
I do not know. I have people work on it for me . I cannot physically do it and i forget. how can I tell?
How many amp's is your PS rated for? How many other devices are you currently running on that same power supply? Give me the break down the power supply channels, if you can.
I have no idea whatsoever. it's old and pretty much running everything.
Do you hear the HDD spin up when you boot your computer?
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actually i haven't, but it seems to be on. when i go into system management it is detected.... and then i go to format it: this is where the problem is. it swears it is only 131gigs.
i tried partition magic just cuz and it said the same thing.
that is what baffles me. if it didn't work or went crazy i'd be like.... damn. bu t the fact that it seems ok....... just doesn't wanna show it's full capacity.
I have a 17gig as my primary i've had since like 1997 or 98 or so. i have an 80 i bought about a year 1/2 ago.
I'm using winxp.... 768 megs of ram....
fix this problem and i'll like thank you and stuff.