865-PE Neo2 P -- BIOS 48 LBA mode

Hi, I am having some problems with a Maxtor ata-160G drive, with the MSI 865-PE Neo2 P board. I read the maxtor lists, and based on their recommendations used the maxblast3 software to create 3 partitions.. however when I load Windows XP Pro, it doesn't recognize the partitions. Worse, even after loading XP SP1 and running the maxtor big_drive_enabler.exe, Windows thinks it's a 148G drive rather than the 160 G it is. I was told that the BIOS might need tweaking if it doesn't properly support 48-bit LBA mode .. question is, does anyone know whether the bios shipped w/ this board supports it, and how do I go about enabling it?
Thanks.

if that bit was not working it would see it as sub 137 gb
thats about right any way
as drive makers use a metric gb
not a proper on
and you loose by the format as well
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