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Installing the Motherboard
About SATA Connectors
Your motherboard features five SATA connectors supporting a total of five drives.
SATA refers to Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is the standard inter-
face for the IDE hard drives which are currently used in most PCs. These connectors
are well designed and will only fit in one orientation. Locate the SATA connectors on
the motherboard and follow the illustration below to install the SATA hard drives.
Installing Serial ATA Hard Drives
To install the Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, use the SATA cable that supports the
Serial ATA protocol. This SATA cable comes with a SATA power cable. You can
connect either end of the SATA cable to the SATA hard drive or the connector on the
motherboard.
SATA cable
(optional)
SATA power cable
(optional)
Installing SATA Hard Drives
This section describes how to install IDE devices such as a hard disk drive and a CD-
ROM drive.
COM: Onboard serial port header
Connect a serial port extension bracket to this header to add a serial port to your
system.
1
DCDB Data Carrier Detect
2
SINB Serial Input
3
SOUTB UART B Serial Output
4
DTRB UART B Data Terminal Ready
5
GND Ground
6
DSRB Data Set Ready
7
RTSB RART B Request to Send
8
CTSB Clear to Send
9
RI Ring Indicator
10
Key No pin
Pin Signal Name Function