Hey cross - thanks for responding.

I can't answer most of your questions yet, except to say that the HD is on an IDE cable with the floppy. I must confess i didn't really pay much attention to the slots on the mobo itself.


in any case, after doing soem reasearch, i'm gonna try doing a BIOS upgrade first, altho the bios revision that's suggested on ASUS site is a beta, they're products tend to generally be good.

according to the FAQs that's supposed to sort out the Large HD problem.

option 2 will be to run Samsung's Disk manager utility. if that doesn't work then it's back to the drawing board.