New Harddrive Conflicts?

I have a FIC VA503+ motherboard and recently replaced a smaller hard drive with a 40 GB Drive. Then Fdisked the drive which only gave me 32 GB total. I also Fdisked the existing drive which is 4.1 GB, formatted both, and then installed Windows 98SE on the 4.1 drive.

Windows hangs the computer when I use Win Explorer, control panel, and the computer will not shut down properly.

Apparently I need to install some drivers for this hard drive or do something to make it handle the drive.

Would I be best to replace the motherboard, or are there drivers to download to correct this problem, or would an IDE hard drive controller card be the best solution?
Thanks for help,
Joel P

 

With newer motherboards, you need to install the motherboard drivers right after installing windows98. 98's drivers are not up to date. Your harddrive problems may go away after this.

 

If I recall that MB was for PII Socket 7 up to 233MMX, possibly 266 and had a HD limit of 8.4 GB in the original bios. Best bet may be to check the FIC support page and see if there is a newer bios available or you may need to install HDD mfg workaround (like EZ Bios) for fooling the bios into accepting a larger HDD (40GB).

What is the readable formatted capacity of your new 40GB HDD?