i'm using windows xp pro and my mother board is intel D875PBZ. i got 80gb hard drive in the system right now and the one that i'm gonna install is Maxtor 160gb ata 133Originally posted by lynx@6 December 2003 - 21:06
If your motherboard supports ATA100 it will almost certainly handle drives greater than 137GB. If not, there should be a bios upgrade available which will enable this feature.
You can get information about your motherboard by running "System Information" if you've got Win2k or XP, though you may need to go into bios setup to find out which version you've got at the moment. Use that info to look up it's capabilities on the manufacturers web site.
The speed of the drive/motherboard is not an issue - they will negotiate the highest common speed, in this case ATA100.
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