Specifications

5. AMD
®
SB850 Serial ATA Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA 1/2/3/5/6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disc drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, or
RAID 10 conguration through the onboard AMD
®
SB850 controller.
• These connectors are set to IDE mode by default. In IDE mode, you can
connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you
intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the type
of the SATA connectors to [RAID] in the BIOS. See section 3.4.2 SATA
Conguration for details.
• You must install Windows
®
XP Service Pack 2 or later version before using
Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature is available only if
you are using Windows
®
XP SP2 or later version.
• When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the type of the SATA connectors to [AHCI]
in the BIOS. See section 2.3.4 SATA Conguration for details.
GND RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GND GND
SATA6G_3
SATA6G_6
GND
RSATA_TXP6
RSATA_TXN6
GND
RSATA_RXP6
RSATA_RXN6
GND
GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND GND
SATA6G_1
SATA6G_5
GND
RSATA_TXP5
RSATA_TXN5
GND
RSATA_RXP5
RSATA_RXN5
GND
SATA6G_2
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
M5A88-M EVO
M5A88-M EVO Intel
®
SATA 6.0Gb/s connectors
6. Digital audio connector (4-1 pin SPDIF_OUT)
This connector is for an additional Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF) port.
Ensure that the audio device of Sound playback is Realtek High Denition Audio (the
name may be different based on the OS). Go to Start > Control Panel > Sounds and
Audio Devices > Sound Playback to congure the setting.
The S/PDIF module is purchased separately.
M5A88-M EVO
M5A88-M EVO Digital audio connector
SPDIF_OUT
+5V SPDIFOUT GND
ASUS M5A88-M EVO 1-29