120GB HD Bios HELP

[GilbertsGrape]

Help
I bought a 120 GB Western Digital Hard drive and my Bios will not support it. It just freezes up where the bios is detecting drives.

Bios information:

Program: Unicore BIOS Agent Version 1.8
BIOS Date: 09/16/98
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 09/16/1998-i440BX-W977TF-P6BX
BIOS Eval: P6BX-Me Ver 1.1d 09/18/1998
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 2
Superio: Winbond 977TF rev 0 found at port 3F0h
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Is it possible to update my bios to allow me to set up this new drive.
I am running Win XP Professional and I don’t have any free expansion slots for those up date cards.

So basically I need to know if there are any workarounds for my problem or is my bios upgradeable. Or can I get a new chip or something. And if my bios is upgradeable where do I get the up grade from.

Thanks
GrapeDude

[topane]

What is the make and model of your mobo? Have you checked the vendor's site for BIOS updates?

[Tommy Boomfiger]

do you have the right settings for the jumpers? also if you have more than one connector on the ide cable which one is it hooked up to? it may make a difference

[GilbertsGrape]

it is a MainBoard brand board and model P6BX

the reason i think it is the bois is that i called WD and they told me my jumper settings where correct and that it is a BIOS problem tehy said my only 2 options where to try and upgrade teh BIOS and to buy a controler card. and i dont have any empty slots for a controler card.

also they said their software that is suppose to resolve these problems will not work because it is not compatible with Windows XP Pro

also i was wondering if i could get around this problem by buying a firewire enclosure and conection the drive to my FireWire card. or would there still be the size limitation. i am not wanting to boof from this frive i just want it as a data storage drive if that makes any differance.

Thanks,
Gary