Asus VINTAGE-AE1 Vintage-AE1 User''s Manual for English Edition - Page 36
Connect the blue interface of the IDE ribbon cable to the primary IDE
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6. Connect a 15-pin Serial ATA power plug from the power supply unit to the power connector at the back of the drive. - OR Connect a 4-pin (female) power plug from the power supply unit to the 4-pin (male) power connector at the back of the drive. If your Serial ATA HDD has both 4-pin and 15-pin connectors at the back, use either the 15-pin SATA power adapter plug O R the legacy 4-pin power connector. D O N O T use both to prevent damage to components and to keep the system from becoming unstable. To install an IDE hard disk drive: 1. Follow steps 1-4 of the previous section. 3 2 • If you will install only one hard disk drive, make sure to configure your hard disk drive as Master device before connecting the IDE cable and power plug. Refer to the HDD documentation on how to set the drive as a Master device. • If you will install two IDE hard disk drives, configure the other device as Slave. 2. Connect the blue interface of the IDE ribbon cable to the primary IDE connector (blue connector labeled PRI_IDE) on the motherboard. See page 4-5 for the location of the PRI_IDE connector. 3. Connect the gray interface of the IDE ribbon cable to the IDE connector on the drive. 4. If you install two IDE hard disk drives, connect the black interface of the IDE ribbon cable to the IDE connector on the second (Slave) IDE hard disk drive. 5. Connect a 4-pin power plug from the power supply unit to the power connector at the back of the drive(s). 2-18 Chapter 2: Basic installation