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Preparing an IDE Drive for Use
IDE disk drives are already low-level formatted, with any bad-track er-
rors entered, when shipped by the drive manufacturer. Do not attempt
to do a low-level format or you may cause serious damage to the drive.
To use an IDE drive, you need to enter the drive type (this information
is provided by the drive manufacturer) into the system' s CMOS setup
table. Then run FDISK and FORMAT provided with DOS. You may also
use the IDE HDD Auto Detection function which will allow the BIOS to
auto detect your hard drive type. Refer to the IDE HDD Auto Detection
section for details.
Warning:
Do not run FDISK and FORMAT programs on a drive that has already
been formatted or you will lose all programs and data stored on the
drive.
Universal Serial Bus Connectors
The 686IPK system board is equipped with a connector, at location J1
on the system board, for external USB ports. USB allows data ex-
change between your computer and a wide range of simultaneously ac-
cessible peripherals. Make sure " USB Controller" in the Integrated Pe-
ripherals setup of the Award BIOS is Enabled.
Pin
Function
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
+5V
+5V
-Data
-Data
+Data
+Data
Ground
Ground
Key
Ground
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