Asus M4A77T User Manual

4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1~6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk
and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA
1.5Gb/s specication. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the
standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard
disk drives, you can create RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1 congurations through the
onboard SB710 chipset.
• Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the type of
the SATA connectors in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 2.3.4 SATA Conguration for
details.
• The motherboard does not provide a oppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB
oppy disk drive when installing Windows
®
XP operating system on a hard disk drive
that includes a RAID/AHCI set.
• Due to Windows
®
XP limitation, Windows
®
XP may not recognize the USB oppy disk
drive.
• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included
in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.
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Asus M4A77T Specifications

General

ECC	Yes
Number of memory slots	4
Maximum internal memory	16 GB
Processor socket	Socket AM3
Processor manufacturer	AMD
Maximum number of SMP processors	1
Number of SATA connectors	6
Headphone outputs	3
USB 2.0 ports quantity	USB 2.0 ports have a data transmission speed of 480 Mbps, and are backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ports. You can connect all kinds of peripheral devices to them.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports	0
Motherboard chipset	AMD 770
Motherboard form factor	ATX
PCI Express x1 slots	2
Controller 2nd interface type	IDE/SATA
LAN controller	Realtek RTL8112L
ACPI version	2.0
BIOS memory size	64 Mbit

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	213 mm
Width	305 mm