Serial Ata Connectors; Digital Audio Connector - Asus M4A88T-M/USB3 User Manual

4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk
and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA
1.5Gb/s specification. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the
standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard disk
drives, you can create RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD configurations.
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M4A88T-M/USB3 SATA connectors
• Install the Windows
• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA
• The motherboard does not provide a floppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB
• Due to Windows
• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included
5. Digital audio connector (4-1 pin SPDIF_OUT)
This connector is for an additional Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF) port.
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M4A88T-M/USB3 Digital audio connector
Ensure that the audio device of Sound playback is VIA High Definition Audio (the name
may be different based on the OS). Go to Start > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio
Devices > Sound Playback to configure the setting.
The S/PDIF module is purchased separately.
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XP Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
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Port1-Port4 and SATA Port5-Port6 items in the BIOS to [RAID]. See 2.3.4 SATA
Configuration for details.
floppy disk drive when installing Windows
included in a RAID/AHCI set.
XP limitation, Windows
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drive.
in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.
SATA4 SATA5
SATA1 SATA2
XP operating system on a hard disk drive
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XP may not recognize the USB floppy disk
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SPDIF_OUT
SATA6
SATA3
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