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Chapter 2 Installation Instructions
Rear, Line in/side, Line out, Microphone, CEN/LFE
When using a 2-channel sound source, the Line out jack is used to connect to
speaker or headphone; the Line in jack connects to an external CD player,
tape player or other audio device. The Microphone jack is used to connect to
the microphone.
When using a 6-channel sound source, connect the front speaker to the green
audio output; connect the surround sound speaker to the black audio output;
connect the center speaker/subwoofer to the yellow audio output.
When using a 8-channel sound source, connect the front speaker to the green
audio output; connect the rear sound speaker to the black audio output; con-
nect the center speaker/subwoofer to the yellow audio output; connect the side
sound speaker to the blue audio output.
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This motherboard includes connectors for FDD devices, IDE HDD devices,
SATA devices, USB devices, 1394 devices, IR module, CPU fan, system fan, and
others.
FLOPPY
This motherboard includes a standard FLOPPY interface, supporting 360 K, 720 K,
1.2 M, 1.44 M, and 2.88 M FDDs.
HDD Connectors: PIDE & SIDE
These connectors support the provided UltraDMA133/100/66 IDE hard disk rib-
bon cable and you can configure as a disk array through NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
IDE RAID controller. Refer to chapter 5 for details on how to set up RAID
configurations.
Connect the cable’s blue connector to the primary (recommended) or second-
ary IDE connector, then connect the gray connector to the slave device (hard
disk drive) and the black connector to the master device. If you install two hard
disks, you must configure the second drive as a slave device by setting its
jumper accordingly. Refer to the hard disk documentation for the jumper settings.
Other Connectors