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Serial ata hard disk drive connection – Asus P5GC User Manual

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Chapter 2: Hardware information

Important notes on Serial ATA
• You must install Windows

®

2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows

®

XP

Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives.

• When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary

(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table

below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector

Color

Setting

Use

SATA1/SATA2

Red

Master

Boot disk

SATA3/SATA4

Black

Slave

Data disk

4.. Optical.drive.audio.connector.(4-pin.CD)

This connector is for the 4-pin audio cable that connects to the audio

connector at the back of the optical drive.

P5GC.Internal.Audio.Connector

P5GC

CD

(black)

Righ

tA

udio Channel

Lef

tA

udio Channel

Ground

Ground

5.. Digital.Audio.connector.(4-1.pin.SPDIF_OUT)

This connector is for the S/PDIF audio module to allow digital sound output.

Connect one end of the S/PDIF audio cable to this connector and the other end

to the S/PDIF module.

The S/PDIF out module is purchased separately.

P5GC.Digital.Audio.Connector

P5GC

+5

V

SPDIFOU

T

GN

D

SPDIF_OUT