Asus M3N-HD 3.NVIDIA® nForce 750a SLI Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6)

3.NVIDIA® nForce 750a SLI Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6)

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk and optical disk drives.

If you install SATA hard disk drives to the SATA connectors, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration through the onboard NVIDIA® nForce 750a SLI controller.

	SATA5		SATA6
GND		GND
RSATA_TXP5		RSATA_TXP6
RSATA_TXN5		RSATA_TXN6
GND		GND
RSATA_RXP5		RSATA_RXP6
RSATA_RXN5		RSATA_RXN6
GND		GND

	SATA2	SATA4
	GND	GND
	RSATA_TXP2	RSATA_TXP4
	RSATA_TXN2	RSATA_TXN4
	GND	GND
	RSATA_RXP2	RSATA_RXP4
	RSATA_RXN2	RSATA_RXN4
M3N-HD/HDMI	GND	GND
	SATA1	SATA3
	GND	GND
	RSATA_TXP1	RSATA_TXP3
	RSATA_TXN1	RSATA_TXN3
	GND	GND
	RSATA_RXP1	RSATA_RXP3
	RSATA_RXN1	RSATA_RXN3
M3N-HD/HDMI SATA connectors	GND	GND

• SATA1-4 connectors are set to [IDE] by default. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Operation Mode item in the BIOS to [RAID].

•Before creating a RAID set, refer to the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.

• SATA 5-6 connectors support AHCI mode and RAID mode only. Make sure to install the AHCI driver or RAID driver in the bundled support DVD before connecting devices to SATA 5-6 connectors. Otherwise, the devices will not work.

•Due to chipset limitation, when set any of SATA ports to RAID mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode together.

•You must install the Windows XP® Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0 and RAID 1) is available only if you are using Windows XP® or later version.

	right angle side
Connect the right-angle side of SATA signal
cable to SATA device. Or you may connect
the right-angle side of SATA cable to the
onboard SATA port to avoid mechanical
conflict with huge graphics cards.

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