I put a large HD on one of these boards a couple of years ago.
Two possibilities:
1.  Update the flash Bios - Instructions and file available from
www.asus.com.tw
2.  Check the jumpers.  Some of the more modern drives won't detect with the
drive set to master if they're the only drive on a cable.  You may have to
remove the jumper altogether....

PCPhill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Zuccarello" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:26 AM
Subject: Asus P2B motherboard


Does anyone know what I need to do to use a 40gb drive on this mb? When I
use autodetect...it just hangs at the primary master and never recognizes
the drive. Do I need to update the bios?

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