Asus P5E3 PRO User Manual page 34

4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives.
P5E3 PRO SATA connectors
• Install the Windows
• The motherboard does not provide a floppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB
• Due to Windows
• For more details on RAID/AHCI supplementary guide included in the folder named
5. Optical drive audio connector (4-pin CD)
These connectors allow you to receive stereo audio input from sound sources such as
a CD-ROM, TV tuner, or MPEG card.
P5E3 PRO Internal audio connector
1-24
P5E3 PRO
XP Service Pack 2 or later version before using Serial ATA.
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floppy disk drive when installing Windows
that includes a RAID/AHCI set. Refer to the bundled Support DVD for how to create a
RAID/AHCI drive disk.
XP limitation, Windows
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drive.
Manual in the support DVD.
P5E3 PRO
SATA2
SATA1
SATA4 SATA3
SATA6 SATA5
GND GND
RSATA_RXP6 RSATA_TXN5
RSATA_RXN6 RSATA_TXP5
GND GND
RSATA_TXP6 RSATA_RXN5
RSATA_TXN6 RSATA_RXP5
GND GND
XP operating system on a hard disk drive
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XP may not recognize the USB floppy disk
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CD
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