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> Do you suppose that as part of the driver installation for your new hard drive, a software translation driver of this type was loaded onto your drive?

Nope. I don't install 'em. I did once, on another machine, and later ripped it all out and reloaded the CMOS. Mainly because of the above reason.

> ...although I'm not sure why the original boot disks would still work.

That one beats the breath out of me, too.

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> It's good that you're planning to upgrade to a new motherboard in the relatively near future, at any rate.

I hear you, er, read you. If I'da spent another $50, I would've gotten a P133 instead of a machine that went obsolete as it was riding to my house.


I traipsed around the Intel and Phoenix sites a bit. What I gathered there tells me that I am extremely fortunate that the puzzling boot-to-a-floppy situation is the extent of my problem. Seems the most common result of installing a larger-than-2G drive in one of these antiques is a total lockup.
So I'll be happy with 1.6G unaccessible on the drive of a system that, overall, performs a lot better with the faster drive.
Makes me want to get that new mommieboard, brains, and processor sooner than I'd planned.
But I won't.
Gotta have SOMETHING to whine about!

Thanks for the link, Iss.