Asus P2B-F motherboard

[gunnercooper]

I have an old Asus P2B-F motherboard with a P3 550 that I cannot get to recognize a hard drive.It will find a smaller hard drive, but will not even find a hard drive at all if I install my 40 gig.Is there a jumper setting I need to change?

[John Prophet]

doubt there is a jumper..do you have the latest bios?

[gunnercooper]

I can't seem to find the right one.I was at the Asus site and the only one they had, the link was dead for.Everyone I talked said I need ver. 1012,but cant seem to find it anywhere.

[John Prophet]

http://www.asus.com/support/download...-F&Type=Latest

I think this is 1013

while your there you may as well get the "flash utility" to flash it with.

Ever flashed one before?

[gunnercooper]

Thanks for the help.

[John Prophet]

yeah, lol....I got out my pc with its P2-B board..and now it wont boot, lol. So now I am troubleshooting it....see what youve caused!!

j/k, lol JP

[gunnercooper]

These thing must be contagious.

[John Prophet]

ahhh, took it out of the case and now it works...hmmmm..somehow was shorted to the case....cie la vie

[gunnercooper]

Might have to give that a try. Thanks again.

[John Prophet]

no, I was saying that mine was shorting to the case so it was doing weird things and wouldnt boot.

But I did get it booted and it in fact DOES detect a 40g drive no problem....so I think you just need the bios flash and youll be straight.