Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0)

Hard Disk Drive Connectors: IDE1

The mainboards provide one IDE connector that supports Ultra ATA 33/66/100 IDE devices. You can attach a maximum of two IDE devices, such as hard disk drive (HDD), CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, etc. using an IDE ribbon cable.

In general, two IDE devices can be attached onto one IDE connector. If you attach two IDE HDDs, you must configure one drive as the master and the other one as the slave. In this case, one optical device i.e., CD-ROM, DVD-ROM…etc. should be attached to this connector as well.

SATA II Connector: SATA 1/2/3/4

The four SATA II connectors support 3 Gbps transmit rate, and one SATA connector only can attach one SATA HDD of each time using SATA cables.

Attention

The FDD/ IDE cable is designed and should be attached with a specific direction. One edge of the cable will usually in color such as red, to indicate that should line up with the header pin-1.

Headers & Jumpers

Front USB Headers: USB2/3

These mainboards provide four onboard USB 1.1/2.0 ports (back panel) that attach to USB devices. There are two additional USB headers that can be connected by cables to four more USB ports on the front panel of your case giving you a possible eight USB ports.

 

Pin

Assignment

Pin

Assignment

 

1

VCC

2

VCC

 

3

-DATA

4

-DATA

USB2/3

5

+DATA

6

+DATA

 

7

GND

8

GND

 

9

Key

10

N/C

Attention

If you are using a USB 2.0 device with Windows 2000/XP, you will need to install the USB 2.0 driver from the Microsoft® website. If you are using Service pack 2 (or later) for Windows® XP, and using Service pack4 (or later) for Windows® 2000, you will not have to install the driver.

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