I have a 40 gigabyte hard drive, while i must admit it is working, it is falling short by about 6 gigabytes.
I have read a topic about bios updates, downloaded the CORRECT up date for the board, however i am getting a bios tag error when attempting to update the bios.
My mother board is a 6wmmc7 and the bios is a award bios 6.0pg.
Any solutions or helpful hints ????????:_|
Davey6 has supplied the following information:
this board is made by gigabyte and there is two versions of it.
the GA-6WMMC7
that bios can be found here.
http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Motherboard/S...6WMMC7.htm
and the GA-6WMMC7-1
that bios can be found here.
http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Motherboard/S...MMC7-1.htm
you must choose the correct version number for your board or you will get errors.
have you upgraded the drive from a smaller one ?
if you have the bios may still be set for the old drive.
to change the bios back to full auto please do this.
just as you computer posts its bios screen push the delete key.
go into standard cmos features.
check and make sure you primary ide 0 is set to auto
the last bios version f9g beta for this board allows the bios to support a drive bigger then 130 gig, the hard drive is not listed before that in any other bios update so
i would take that as the board should support upto 130gig when it first came out.
if the bios reports the drive as 40gig but windows is reporting less then that it may be the way the drive was set up when it was partationed and formated.
I can also tell you that there are also different devices (and therefore different drivers) on this bloody motherboard.
I have had a bit of a play with the bios updates, as supplied by gigabyte and have found that the one that works best with my board and the type of problem is the 6wmmc7.f8 version this has given me full drive capacity without any problems what so ever.
Excellent, well done!! Thanks for posting back that the problem is fixed.
Hi!
I have the same problem with the same Board... Each time I try to flash a new Bios, I get a Bios tag error. I both tried the 6WMMC7 and the 6WMMC7-1 Bios and it always failed.
The Problem is that I have to run a 250GB-Harddisk, so I need the F9G...
Can anyone help, please?
Thanks a lot and sorry for my english (I'm from germany...)
make sure you are trying to update your bios with the correct version number or it will fail.
just had a quick look at gigabyte site under the 6WMMC7 number there are four versions you list two yourself. its important that you get the full version number correct or it will fail or even worse it will flash and your board will go dead.
if you have no luck with the uk site try gigabyte main site.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw
Never liked that board. They had different NIC drivers which made life difficult (school had a 64K ISDN line).
This is an old motherboard (at least 5 years old, maybe more). I think I would be more inclined to purchase an IDE controller and use that rather than do a BIOS flash.