Updated AMI BIOS Needed for Large IDE Drives and 64+ MB Memory (123739)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5

This article was previously published under Q123739
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AMI BIOSs dated prior to 7/25/94 do not provide Logical Block Addressing (LBA) and the necessary enhanced registers to work correctly with IDE hard drives larger than 540 megabytes.

AMI BIOSs dated prior to 10/10/94 do not support more than 64 MB of RAM on ISA systems. AMI BIOSs dated 10/10/94 and later support up to four gigabytes on ISA systems.

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:5/4/2005
Keywords:KB123739