Owner's manual

Interface (Ports & Jacks)
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Computer Ports and Jacks
Item Description
Card Reader Port The card reader allows you to use some of the latest digital storage cards. Push the card into the
slot and it will appear as a removable device.
COM/Serial Ports The COM/serial is a communication interface for data transfer, through which information
transfers in or out one bit at a time. This port can be used to connect the computer to devices
such as terminals and peripherals.
DC-In Jack Plug the supplied AC/DC adapter into this jack to power your computer.
e-SATA Port Plug external Serial ATA hard drives into this e-SATA (external Serial Advanced Technology
Attachment) port.
Not: The eSATA port only supports hot-swapping if you have selected AHCI mode in SATA Mode
Selection in the BIOS (see “SATA Mode & eSata Port” on page 5 - 10), enabled DOFORM sup-
port (see “DFOROM (Robson) Support (Advanced Menu > SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]” on
page 5 - 10) and installed the Intel Matrix Storage driver (see “Intel Turbo Memory & Matrix Stor-
age Setup and Driver Installation” on page 7 - 24). If you have selected IDE mode, then hot-
swapping devices connected to the eSATA port is not supported.
Note that hot-swapping is NOT supported in the Windows XP O/S.