Xp and EZBIOS don't work

[Jeff B]

I have a 40 gig hard drive in an old 1995 gateway PC. I
>>had to use a drive overlay from Western Digital so the
PC
>>would see the drive. I install Xp over Windows ME.
During
>>the install the first reboot occurs and I get an error
and
>>it say's XP install can't continue. Microsoft say's it's
a
>>BIOS error and that XP doesn't like drive overlays.
Funny
>>that ME runs fine. So I bought a card that adds to the
>>BIOS during boot up so the PC can see the drive but I
get
>>the same error. Now I'm trying to put an ATA 100 IDE
>>controller card in but I get a PCI memory error. It
say's
>>to increase the PCI memory in BIOS but I don't find a
way
>>to do that in my BIOS. I think my PCI bus is to old for
>>the controller. Looks like I have to use my older 8 gig
>>hard drive that runs XP fine, but the drive speed
cripples
>>the PC. Any one run into this befor?
>
>A 1995 Gateway? One that isn't in a museum?
>
>On a more serious note, I'd dump that thing. The BIOS is
obviously
>outdated, since it won't accept large HDD. XP more than
likely will
>NEVER work with the overlay that let you great-
grandfather age BIOS
>work with your larger HD. You could possibly flash your
BIOS to a
>newer version, but with that older hardware you run into
other
>problems - no AGP video, older RAM slots, slower FSB
speeds, etc. All
>this will combine to make your XP experience a very non-
pleasant one.
>
>.
>
I built a new PC but I'm trying to upgrade this one to
have 2 PC's. I will try to get a new BIOS.
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