Biostar NF4ST-A9 NF4ST-A9 user's manual - Page 14

NF4ST-A9 2.4 CONNECTORS, & SLOTS Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1 The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cables. Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/IDE2 The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO Mode 0~5, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 functionality. It has two HDD connectors IDE1 (primary) and IDE2 (secondary). The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave drive, so you can connect up to four hard disk drives. The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1. Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI1~PCI3 This motherboard is equipped with 3 standard PCI slot. PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for expansion cards. This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits. Xtreme Graphics Port Slot: XGP1 This XGP (Xtreme Graphics Port) slot is a special design that only supports compatible AGP VGA cards. To install the system with an add-on AGP VGA card, please make sure to install the driver of add-on AGP VGA card before onboard VGA driver installation. If the onboard VGA driver has already been installed before you install the add-on AGP VGA card, the system will automatically set the onboard VGA as the primary graphics adapter. For the onboard VGA driver can't be removed completely, and to solve this problem, please follow the steps below, 1. Disable onboard VGA utility under the operating system, and reboot PC. After PC restarts, the system will automatically set the AGP VGA card as the graphics adapter. 2. Re-install your operating system to ensure the AGP VGA card function can be used. Note: Please go to "http://www.biostar.com.tw" for more detailed information about XGP compatible AGP cards. 12