User`s guide

Motherboard User’s Guide

If you want to install more IDE devices, you can purchase a second IDE cable

and connect one or two devices to the Secondary IDE channel connector IDE2

on the motherboard. If you have two devices on the cable, one must be Master

and one must be Slave.

Serial ATA Devices

The Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is the standard interface

for the IDE hard drives, which is designed to overcome the design limitations

while enabling the storage interface to scale with the growing media rate demands

of PC platforms. It provides you a faster transfer rate of 150 MB/s. If you have

installed a Serial ATA hard drive, you can connect the Serial ATA cables to the

Serial ATA hard drive or the connector on the motherboard.

On the motherboard, locate the Serial ATA connectors SATA1-2, which support

new Serial ATA devices for the highest data transfer rates, simpler disk drive

cabling and easier PC assembly.

It eliminates limitations of the current Parallel ATA interface, but maintains

Analog Audio Input Header

If you have installed a CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, you can connect

the drive audio cable to the onboard sound system.