Motherboard HX97 User guide

24 ASUS HX97 User’s Manual

III. INSTALLATION

(Connectors)

III. INSTALLATION

5. Primary / Secondary IDE connectors (Two 40-pin Block)

These connectors support the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable. After con-

necting the single end to the board, connect the two plugs at the other end to

your hard disk(s). If you install two hard disks, you must configure the second

drive to Slave mode by setting its jumper accordingly. Please refer to the docu-

mentation of your hard disk for the jumper settings. BIOS now supports SCSI

device or IDE CD-ROM bootup (see "HDD Sequence SCSI/IDE First" & "Boot

Sequence" in the BIOS Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE) (Pin 20 is

removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon

cables with pin 20 plugged).

TIP: You may configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon

cable on the primary IDE connector and another ribbon cable on the secondary

IDE connector. You may install one operating system on an IDE drive and

another on a SCSI drive and select the boot disk through BIOS Features Setup.

Connect the Red stripe to Pin 1

IDE (Hard Drive) Connectors

Primary IDE Connector

Pin 1

Secondary IDE Connector

6. IDE (HD) activity LED (HD_LED)

This connector supplies power to the cabinet’s IDE activity LED. Read and

write activity by devices connected to the Primary or Secondary IDE connectors

will cause the LED to light up.

IDE (Hard Drive) LED

TIP: If the case-mounted LED does not light,

try reversing the 2-Pin plug.

Hard Drive LED Lead