Your computer seems new enough. It shouldn't be a problem. Why not try first and see what happenes?
Hello--
I have a Dell Dimension 2350 that i purchased back in 2003 with a 40Gb hard drive and an Intel Celereon 2Ghz processor (400Mhz).
I'm wanting to add a 200Gb hard drive to one of my external bays but I'm wondering if i'm gonna have a problem with my Bios not recognizing a hard drive that big (i read somehting about needing bios that supports "big LBA"?). I've read that if your bios doesn't support "bigLBA" it won't recognize the full capacity of the drive.
The only spec i've seen on my bios from Dell is that the system bios chip is 2Mb (256kb), but i don't know what that means. Unfortunately i'm on another computer so i can't say at this point how the bios identifies itself on startup, which might help as well.
Operating system wise i think i'm in the clear as i'm running XP sp2.
Two questions:
1. Is there a way to find out if i'm going to need to upragde my bios prior to installing the big hard drive to get full capapbility out of the hard drive?
2. If i do need to upgrade my bios, where do i go to buy what i need and how do i install it? (I've put in memory, hard drives, pci cards etc, but never messed with bios before.
Thanks,
Brian

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