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Preparing an IDE Drive for Use
IDE disk drives are already low-level formatted, with any bad-track er-
rors entered, when shipped by the drive manufacturer. Do not attempt
to do a low-level format or you may cause serious damage to the drive.
To use an IDE drive, you need to enter the drive type (this information
is provided by the drive manufacturer) into the system’s CMOS setup
table. Then run FDISK and FORMAT provided with DOS. You may also
use the IDE HDD Auto Detection function which will allow the BIOS to
auto detect your hard drive type. Refer to the IDE HDD Auto Detection
section for details.
Warning:
Do not run FDISK and FORMAT programs on a drive that has already
been formatted or you will lose all programs and data stored on the
drive.
VGA Port
One card-edge bracket mounted with an analog VGA port cable is pro-
vided with the system board. Connect the VGA port cable to connector
J3 on the system board. Make sure the colored stripes on the ribbon
cable is aligned with pin 1 of connector J3. Mount the card-edge bracket
to the system chassis.
Installing Expansion Cards
The G586SPB AIO system board is equipped with 3 dedicated PCI
slots and 4 dedicated 16-bit ISA slots. All PCI slots are bus masters.
Refer to page 12 for the locations of the expansion slots.
Due to the size of the CPU with its accompanying fan/heatsink compo-
nent, the length of the add-in cards in PCI slot 3, ISA slot 1 and 2 is
limited to 18cm (7.07", measured from the bracket of the card). With the
cache module installed in the cache module slot, the components on
the solder side of the add-in card in PCI Slot 2 and the components on
the component side of the add-in card in PCI Slot 1 must not protrude
more than 5mm.
