Green Function Installation; Atapi Device Installation; Peripheral Device Installation; Keyboard & Ps/2 Mouse Installation - Gigabyte GA-686DX User Manual

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Hardware Installation
There are a system power LED lamp on the panel of case. The power LED
will light on when system is powered-on, which is connected to a 3 PIN
connector. The connector should be connected to J3 of mainboard in correct
direction.

3.10. GREEN FUNCTION INSTALLATION

For the purpose of power saving, there are two jumpers, J6 and J8, to make
sure the power saving function doing well.
The J8 is a indicator (green LED) for green function. If the green LED is ON,
the system is operating in green mode. The J6 is a switch to force the system
get into green mode immediately.

3.11. ATAPI DEVICE INSTALLATION

There are two Enhance PCI IDE ports (CN6,7) on board, which following
ATAPI standard SPEC. Any one IDE port can connect to two ATAPI devices
(IDE Hard Disk, CD-ROM & Tape Driver), so total four ATAPI devices can
exist in a system.
The booting Hard Disk should be the Master device of 1st IDE channel.
The J5 is the active LED port for ATAPI device.

3.12. PERIPHERAL DEVICE INSTALLATION

After the I/O device installation and jumpers setup, the mainboard can be
mounted into the case and fixed by screw.
To complete the mainboard installation, the peripheral device could be
installed now. The basic system needs a display interface card.
If the PCI - Bus device is to be installed in the system, any one of four PCI -
Bus slots can be used if Slave PCI - Bus device being installed; any one of
four PCI-Bus slots can be used if Bus Master PCI-Bus device being installed.
3.13. KEYBOARD & PS/2 MOUSE INSTALLATION
The main board supports PS/2 connector type keyboard & Mouse (CN4).
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