Pci Express X16 Add-On Slots; Connecting Peripheral Devices; Floppy And Ide Disk Drive Connectors - Abit IL9 Pro Installation Manual

1.6.3 PCI Express X16 Add-on Slots

These slots support the connections of graphics cards that comply with
PCI Express specifications. This motherboard provides dual PCI-Express
X16 slots for one or two graphics cards installation:
One PCIE graphics card installation (Normal Mode):
Install one PCIE graphics card into [Master] slot (the PCIEX1 slot on
this motherboard).
One PCIE graphics card installation
Two PCIE graphics cards installation (CrossFire Mode):
Install one CrossFire Edition graphics card into [Master] slot (the
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PCIEX1 slot on this motherboard), and one CrossFire
graphics card into [Slave] slot (the PCIEX2 slot on this motherboard).
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The ATI CrossFire
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Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 only.
Slot PCI-E1 will be disabled when slot PCIEX2 is installed.
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IL9 Pro/IL9 Pro-V
Two PCIE graphics cards installation
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technology currently supports the

1.7 Connecting Peripheral Devices

1.7.1 Floppy and IDE Disk Drive Connectors

Connect the single end at the longer length of ribbon cable to the FDD
on the board, the two connectors on the other end to the floppy disk
drives connector. Generally you need only one floppy disk drive in your
system.
The red line on the ribbon cable must be aligned with pin-1 on both
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the FDD port and the floppy connector.
Connect the single end (blue connector) at the longer length of ribbon
cable to the IDE port of this board, the other two ends (gray and black
connector) at the shorter length of the ribbon cable to the connectors
Compatible
of your hard drives.
Make sure to configure the "Master"
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and "Slave" relation before connecting
two drives by one single ribbon cable.
The red line on the ribbon cable must
be aligned with pin-1 on both the IDE
port and the hard-drive connector.
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