MSI K9A PLATINUM User Guide - Page 14

MS-7280 Mainboard Connectors, Jumpers, Slots 4 Fan Power Connectors The fan power connectors support system cooling fan with +12V. The CPU FAN supports Smart FAN function. When connect the wire to the connectors, always take note that the red wire is the positive and should be connected to the +12V, the black wire is Ground and should be connected to GND. If the mainboard has a System Hardware Monitor chipset onboard, you must use a specially designed fan with speed sensor to take advantage of the fan control. Control SENSOR +1 2V GND CPU FAN SENSOR or NC +1 2V GND SYS FAN/ NB FAN/ POWER FAN Important Please refer to the recommended CPU fans at AMD® official website or consult the vendors for proper CPU cooling fan. Fan/heatsink with 3 or 4 pins are both available for CPUFAN. 5 Floppy Disk Drive Connector (FDD connector) The mainboard provides a standard floppy disk drive connector that supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. 6 ATA133 Hard Disk Connector (IDE connector) A IDE connector can connect a Master and a Slave drive. You can connect CD-ROM/ Hard Driver and other IDE devices. The UltraATA133 interface boosts data transfer rates between the computer and the hard drive up to 133 megabytes (MB) per second. The new interface is one-third faster than earlier record-breaking UltraATA/100 technology and is backwards compatible with the existing Ultra ATA interface. Important If you install two hard disks on cable, you must configure the second drive to Slave mode by setting its jumper. Refer to the hard disk documentation supplied by hard disk vendors for jumper setting instructions. 7 Serial ATA Connector SATA1.0 connector supports serialATA data rates of 150 MB/s and will be marked in ORANGE color. SATA 2.0 connector supports serial ATA data rates of 300 MB/s and will be marked in PURPLE color. Each SATA connector can connect to 1 hard disk device. Serial ATAcable SATA 1.0 connector (Orange) SATA 2.0 connector (Purple) Take out the dust cover and connect to the hard disk devices Connect to SATA connector Important Please do not fold the Serial ATA cable into 90-degree angle. Otherwise, data loss may occur during transmission. En-6