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12-30-2005, 05:35 PM
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I'm about to build my first PC.
I just bought all the components and am ready to throw together my first "self-built PC." I've never actully installed anything myself, but I've seen many of my friends build their PCs. I have a quick question... My motherboard is a Gigabyte with Intel 945PL chipset - http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard...-8I945PL-G.htm
I bought a Seagate 300GB HDD Ultra ATA/100. Now, I want to know if my motherboard will support a hard drive higher than 137GB or do I need to buy a controller adapter card. It may be silly that I don't know this, but I'd appreciate if someone checked it out for me - to make sure 
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12-30-2005, 05:47 PM
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You'll be fine with that hard drive - it's not your motherboard that determines support of hard drive capacity, but your operating system. I believe that XP with at least service pack 1 (and potentially Windows 2000 SP4) is needed to show your hard drive as having capacity above 137GB.
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12-30-2005, 05:47 PM
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It depends more on the OS that you use. XP with SP2 will support drives over 137gb.
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12-30-2005, 05:50 PM
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Thanks a lot for the comments. I will actually start putting everything together right now and see how it turns out...
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