Jumpers, Headers, Connectors & Slots - Biostar P4VTB Manual

6. Jumpers, Headers, Connectors & Slots
(1) Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1
The motherboard provides a standard f loppy disk connector tha t supports 360K,
720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M flopp y disk types. This connector supports the
prov ided f loppy drive ribbon cables.
(2) Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/ IDE2
The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO
Mode 0~4, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 33/ 66/ 100/ 133 functionality. It has two
HDD connectors IDE1 (primary) and IDE2 (secondary).
The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave driv e, so you can connect
up to f our hard disk driv es. The f irst hard drive should alway s be connected to
IDE1.
(3) Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI 1-5
This motherboard is equipped with 5 standard PCI slots. PCI stands f or Peripheral
Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for e xpansion cards. This PCI
slot is designated as 32 bits.
(4) Accelerated Graphics Port S lot: AGP1
Y our monitor will attach directly to that v ideo card. This motherboard supports
video cards for PCI slots, but it is also equipped with an Accelerated Graphics Port
(AGP). An AGP card will take advantage of AGP technology f or improved video
efficiency and performance, especially with 3D graphics.
(5) Communication Network Riser S lot: CNR1 (does not
support on version 7.x)
The CNR specification is an open Industry Standard Architecture , and it defines a
hardware scalable riser card interf ace, which supports modem only.
(6) Serial ATA Connector: S ATA1/ SATA2
The motherboard has a PCI to SATA Controller with 2 channels SATA interf ace, it
satisfies the SATA 1.0 spec and can transf er data with 1 .5GHz speed.
6 5 3 2
7 4 1
S ATA1/ SATA2
Pin Assignment Pin
Ground
1
TX -
3
RX -
5
Ground
7
9
Assignment
TX +
2
Ground
4
RX +
6