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ASUS A7V8X-MX motherboard user manual

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1.12 Connectors

This section describes and illustrates the connectors on the motherboard.

1. IDE connectors (40-1 pin PRI_IDE, SEC_IDE)

This connector supports the provided UltraATA133/100/66/33 IDE hard disk

ribbon cable. Connect the cable’s blue connector to the primary

(recommended) or secondary IDE connector, then connect the gray connector

to the UltraATA133/100/66/33 slave device (hard disk drive) and the black

connector to the UltraATA133/100/66/33 master device. It is recommended that

you connect non-UltraATA133/100/66/33 devices to the secondary IDE

connector. 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. BIOS supports specific device bootup.

If you have more than two UltraATA133/100/66/33 devices, purchase another

UltraATA133/100/66/33 cable. You may configure two hard disks to be both

master devices with two ribbon cables – one for the primary IDE connector and

another for the secondary IDE connector.

Pin 20 on each IDE connector is removed to match the covered hole on the

UltraDMA cable connector. This prevents incorrect orientation when you

connect the cables.

For UltraATA133/100/66/33 IDE devices, use 40-pin 80-conductor cable.

A7V8X-MX

A7V8X-MX IDE Connectors

NOTE: Orient the red marking

(usually zigzag) on the IDE

ribbon cable to PIN 1.

SEC_IDE

PRI_IDE

PIN 1

1 2 ... 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ... 63 64

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