Asus Motherboard P5Q-VM - Manual (Page 48)

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Connect the right-angle side of SATA
signal cable to SATA device. Or you may
connect the right-angle side of SATA
cable to the onboard SATA port to avoid
mechanical conflict with huge graphics
cards.
• These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard
IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these
connectors. See section 2.3.5 Storage Configuration for details.
• AHCI mode is not supported in Windows ® XP.
right angle side
3. ICH10 Serial ATA connectors [red] (7-pin SATA1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disc drives.