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Panel Brightness and
Speaker Volume Control
(7-pin BLT_VOL1)
(see p.8 No. 26)
Panel BackLight Inverter
connector
(6-pin BLT_PWR2)
(see p.8 No. 27)
2.7
Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial ATA2 (SATA2) Hard Disks
Installation
This motherboard adopts Intel
Serial ATA2 (SATA2) hard disks. You may install SATA / SATA2 hard disks on this
motherboard for internal storage devices. This section will guide you to install the
SATA / SATA2 hard disks.
STEP 1: Install the SATA / SATA2 hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis.
STEP 2: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA / SATA2 hard disk.
STEP 3: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard's SATA2 con-
nector.
STEP 4: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the SATA / SATA2 hard
disk.
2.8 Hot Plug Function for SATA / SATA2 HDDs
This motherboard supports Hot Plug function for SATA / SATA2 in AHCI mode. Intel
NM10 chipset provides hardware support for Advanced Host controller Interface
(AHCI), a new programming interface for SATA host controllers developed through a
joint industry effort.
NOTE
What is Hot Plug Function?
If the SATA / SATA2 HDDs are NOT set for RAID configuration, it is called "Hot
Plug" for the action to insert and remove the SATA / SATA2 HDDs while the
system is still power-on and in working condition.
However, please note that it cannot perform Hot Plug if the OS has been
installed into the SATA / SATA2 HDD.
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NM10 chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) /
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1: Volume_UP
2: Volume_DOWN
3: PANEL PWR Down
4: Panel BackLight UP
5: Panel BackLight Down
6: GND
7: GND
1,2: GND
3: Panel Backlight Control
4: Panel Backlight Enable
5,6: Panel Backlight Power
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