User`s guide

Motherboard User’s Guide

Floppy Disk Drive

The motherboard ships with a floppy disk drive cable that can support one or

two drives. Drives can be 3.5" or 5.25" wide, with capacities of 360K, 720K,

1.2MB, 1.44MB, or 2.88MB.

Install your drives and connect power from the system power supply. Use the

cable provided to connect the drives to the floppy disk drive connector FDD1.

IDE Devices

IDE devices include hard disk drives, high-density diskette drives, and CD-ROM

or DVD-ROM drives, among others.

The mainboard ships with an IDE cable that can support one or two IDE

devices. If you connect two devices to a single cable, you must configure one of

the drives as Master and one of the drives as Slave. The documentation of the

IDE device will tell you how to configure the device as a Master or Slave device.

The Master device connects to the end of the cable.

Install the device(s) and connect power from the system power

supply. Use the cable provided to connect the device(s) to the Primary IDE

channel connector IDE1 on the motherboard.

Install Other Devices

Install and connect any other devices in the system following the steps below.

FDD1

SATA1

SATA2

IDE1

IDE2