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4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives.
5. Optical drive audio connector (4-pin CD)
These connectors allow you to receive stereo audio input from sound sources such as
a CD-ROM, TV tuner, or MPEG card.
• Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 2 or later version before using Serial ATA.
• The motherboard does not provide a oppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB
oppy disk drive when installing Windows
®
XP operating system on a hard disk drive
that includes a RAID/AHCI set.
• Due to Windows
®
XP limitation, Windows
®
XP may not recognize the USB oppy disk
drive.
• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI supplementary guide included
in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.