I want to upgrade my Hard Drive to 200 or 160 GB. Which of them can support my PC.
My PC specification are as follows.
Mother board Intel base 800 CPU speed
cache ram 256
Ram 128 want to upgrade to 512 or 256
2007-10-13 08:19:58 · 4 answers · asked by Abdul Hameed 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Some do. The size of the disk supported depends on the BIOS. You might check to see if there is a BIOS upgrade available.
2007-10-13 08:28:17 · answer #1 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully your new harddrive will come with a software installation disk. This will help the BIOS in your computer to 'see' the harddrive. You may have to partition your harddrive into two partitions, of 80, or 100GB's as some BIOS'es have a hard time 'seeing' anything bigger than 132GB's. Your motherboard BIOS is what supports the harddrive, not the other way around. I suggest upgrading to 512MB's of Ram, you'll be much happier. This is, of course, if your motherboard will support 512. I upgraded an old eMachines T1090 to 512MB's even though the mobo said 256 was the max. Be careful, doesn't apply to all! You could be sittin' around with a 'stick' of Ram, you can't use. I suggest using Crucial.com's Crucial System Scanner to see EXACTLY what ram your computer will take,(size, how many, what kind, etc.) Check out this page for partitioning: http://www.bootdisk.com/
2007-10-13 08:27:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Weather or not your PC will support a larger hard drive is dependent on the bios in the motherboard. Most older systems can support larger hard drives if the bios is updated (flashed) . Determin the manufacterer and model of your motherboard then go on-line and see if there is a bios update available for it and follow the directions given on the web site EXACTLY. (You can kill a motherboard if it's done incorrectly)
2007-10-13 08:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by garidor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, PIII does not support 200 or 160 GB hard disk..
2007-10-13 08:32:43 · answer #4 · answered by manohar g 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋