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Author Topic: help! please tell me what hd is compatible /w my motherboard  (Read 1980 times)

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my motherboard is a msi ms-7005. I know that i need to get an IDE hard drive but im a bit confused on things like "Ata-100" and all of that. I'm thinking of buying this hard drive (http://e3wwwtest.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144309). Can you please comment and tell me if that hard drive would be able to work on my computer? Much appreciated

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Re: help! please tell me what hd is compatible /w my motherboard
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2007, 01:24:08 PM »
The only issue that might arise is whether your BIOS will support a 250GB drive.  This Western Digital reference, Why is the full capacity of EIDE drives larger than 137GB (128GB binary) not recognized in Windows 2000/XP?, only mentions motherboards with certain Intel chipsets as not supporting drives larger than 137GB.  Since your motherboard has an SiS chipset, I gather your motherboard will recognize the full capacity.