PXI-8156 will not boot past hard drive detection screen

[Fred Rahmer]

I have a PXI-8156 that will not boot after installing a new 60 gb hdd and installing windows xp. Is this due to the size of the drive? I have a slightly newer PXI-8176 that the harddrive works fine in when in the same chasis (PXI-1002). When I go into the bios it only show 8gb as the hdd size. Is there a flash for this bios?

[Jeremy R.]

This may happen if the controller is older and was not designed to detect today's larger hard drives. This also accounts for your 8176 working being that it is a newer controller. I was able to find a 3rd party software package from Ontrack that may allow the larger hard drive to be detected by any older system/bios. This is not a tested solution, but I have provided the url below in case it is an option worth pursuing in your situation.

http://www.ontrack.com/diskmanager/

Jeremy R.
NI � Applications Engineer