Upgrading Hard Drive - what size will motherboard support?

[DavidNW]

Hi, all.

I want upgrade my hard drive and would like to know what size I can go up to - and any suggestions for a particular make would be appreciated. Many thanks.

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional (build 2600) ECS K7VMM+ 3.1
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.25 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ECS K7VMM+ 3.1
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 04/02/01
Drives Memory Modules c,d
41.11 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
34.14 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

52XATAPI CD-ROM
LITE-ON LTR-40125W [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Maxtor 6E040L0 [Hard drive] (41.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n E19HBNPE, rev NAR61590, SMART Status: Healthy 224 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot '0' is Empty
Slot '1' has 256 MB
Slot '2' is Empty
Slot '3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 41.11 GB 34.14 GB free

 

[Big B]

Given that you have the ATA133 support thanks to the chipset you have (VIA KM400 + VT8235), basically, any drive size out there should work.

 

[megamaced]

Slot '0' is Empty
Slot '1' has 256 MB
Slot '2' is Empty
Slot '3' is Empty

Are you refering to RAM slots there?

You should put that stick in the first slot (slot 0)

 

[DavidNW]

Given that you have the ATA133 support thanks to the chipset you have (VIA KM400 + VT8235), basically, any drive size out there should work.

Many thanks, BIG B, you have told me all I need to know.

David.:)

 

[Karanislove]

:ohah:

Are you refering to RAM slots there?

You should put that stick in the first slot (slot 0)

How does it affects the computer, if I leave the first slot Empty and use the second one........ U mean it increases the distance and RAM takes more time to access the Memory.........lol......~!

 

[megamaced]

How does it affects the computer, if I leave the first slot Empty and use the second one.

Some motherboards require that the first slot (nearest the processor) be used first. Otherwise they don't work properly (sometimes not at all). It's as simple as that.

U mean it increases the distance and RAM takes more time to access the Memory.........lol......~!

If you re-read what you've wrote, you will see it doesn't make any sense :)

 

[Addis]

Although some motherboards may require the first slot to be used before anything else, if it doesn't have any problems then its fine to use other slots. I have done this before and never noticed any performance degrading.

 

[megamaced]

Although some motherboards may require the first slot to be used before anything else, if it doesn't have any problems then its fine to use other slots. I have done this before and never noticed any performance degrading.

Some motherboards will work fine with the first slot empty. However it makes good practice to always fill the first slot.

 

[Karanislove]

In my computers motherboard....I never noticed, which 1 is slot1 or 2 or 3

I just put it in any slot.....So I thought may b i m doin wrong.......

U mean it increases the distance and RAM takes more time to access the Memory

Nd according to the logic I said this is..... if you think about electricity supply... person at last will recieve at last......and will recieve lesser than all others.......U must have studied token ring topology in networknig...... Person at the end recieve data at the end........Now u got my point.

 

[megamaced]

In my computers motherboard....I never noticed, which 1 is slot1 or 2 or 3

I just put it in any slot.....So I thought may b i m doin wrong.......


Nd according to the logic I said this is..... if you think about electricity supply... person at last will recieve at last......and will recieve lesser than all others.......U must have studied token ring topology in networknig...... Person at the end recieve data at the end........Now u got my point.

Hehe, I understood what you were trying to say in the first place. But the way you wrote it doesn't make any sense:

You are saying RAM takes more time to be accessed by memory? RAM and memory are the same thing! Are you trying to say it takes more time to access itself :D I'm only playing around, this is what you should have said:

You mean RAM takes more time to be accessed by the processor, hard drive etc

 

[Karanislove]

Hehe, I understood what you were trying to say in the first place. But the way you wrote it doesn't make any sense:

You are saying RAM takes more time to be accessed by memory? RAM and memory are the same thing! Are you trying to say it takes more time to access itself :D I'm only playing around, this is what you should have said:

My Bad...applogise