[Pc_Support] Asus CUV4X-E mbd question ....

[Bruce Metcalf]

At 10:33 AM 4/1/2006, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

>.... I have a 933 MHz PIII (this box, as it happens), running SuSE 
>8.2 Personal. The box has an Asus CUV4X-E S370 (PIII) mbd, with a 10 
>GB HDD mounting root (/) & swap partitions, and a 20 GB HDD mounting 
>/home. I want to upgrade the 20 GB to something larger. I have had 
>1st hand problems w/ boards from that era being limited in the size 
>of HDD they could use (often limited to 33.4 GB HDD's). The solution 
>was usually to flash the BIOS w/ an upgraded BIOS from the 
>manufacturer. I haven't looked, but I doubt anything is still 
>available from Asus for this board.

Current BIOS downloads available from ASUS at
<http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us> are revisions
1005.005 and 1006.005, depending on whether you have onboard sound or 
not. Both are dated 2002/09/11.


>The question (finally) is: Does anyone know 1st hand if this board 
>has any limitations on the size of HDD it can accomodate ? I did 
>read the manual & it was mum about such limitations. I also goggled 
>'Asus CUV4X-E HDD size limitations' & only saw references to a ~131 
>GB limitation.

ASUS claims that your motherboard will handle up to 137GB hard drives 
if the BIOS is revision 1004.002 or higher.

The ASUS web site is difficult to navigate, and is unavailable to 
indexing, but so far I've found that persistence will reveal all the 
data I've needed over the years.


Bruce Metcalf,
Lake Buena Vista, FL