Microsoft Computer Hardware Mainboard User Manual download pdf (Page 17)

Installing a Hard Disk Drive/CD-ROM

This section describes how to install IDE devices such as a hard disk drive

and a CD-ROM drive.

About IDE Devices

Your mainboard has a primary and secondary IDE channel interface (IDE1 and

IDE2). An IDE ribbon cable supporting two IDE devices is bundled with the main-

board.

If you want to install more than two IDE devices, get a second IDE cable and

you can add two more devices to the secondary IDE channel.

IDE devices have jumpers or switches that are used to set the IDE device as

MASTER or SLAVE. Refer to the IDE device user’s manual. When installing two

IDE devices on one cable, ensure that one device is set to MASTER and the

other device is set to SLAVE. The documentation of your IDE device explains

how to do this.

About UltraDMA

This mainboard supports UltraDMA 66/100. UDMA is a technology that accel-

erates the performance of devices in the IDE channel. To maximize

performance, install IDE devices that support UDMA and use 80-pin IDE ca-

bles that support UDMA 66/100.

Installing a Hard Disk Drive

1. Install the hard disk drive into the drive cage in your system case.

2. Plug the IDE cable into IDE1

(A):

Note: Ribbon cable connectors

are usually keyed so that they can

only be installed correctly on the

device connector. If the connector

is not keyed, make sure that you

match the pin-1 side of the cable

connector with the pin-1 side of the

device connector. Each connector

has the pin-1 side clearly marked.

The pin-1 side of each ribbon ca-

ble is always marked with a

colored stripe on the cable.

3. Plug an IDE cable connector into the hard disk drive IDE connector (B). It

doesn't matter which connector on the cable you use.

4. Plug a power cable from the case power supply into the power connector on

the hard disk drive (C).

When you first start up your system, the BIOS should automatically detect

your hard disk drive. If it doesn’t, enter the Setup Utility and use the IDE Hard

Disk Auto Detect feature to configure the hard disk drive that you have in-

stalled.

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