Motherboard
Alternatively referred to as the mb, mainboard, mobo, mobd, backplane board, base board, planar board,system board, or logic board on Apple computers. The motherboard is a printed circuit that is the foundation of a computer and allows the CPU, RAM, and all other computer hardware components to function with each other. Below is a graphic illustration of the ASUS P5AD2-E motherboard and some basic explanations of each of the major portions of the motherboard. Clicking on the below image will give you a larger more detailed version of the below picture.
Below is a listing of links that describe each of the above mentioned motherboard components in additional detail. Links are listed in clockwise order going from the top-left corner of the image. Components not listed above or found on other motherboards are listed in the next section.
- Expansion slots
- (PCI Express, PCI, and AGP)
- 3-pin case fan connectors
- Back pane connectors
- Heatsink
- 4-Pin (P4) power connector
- Inductor
- Capacitor
- CPU Socket
- Northbridge
- Screw hole
- Memory slot
- Super I/O
- Floppy connection
- ATA (IDE) disk drive primary connection
- 24-pin ATX power Supply connector
- Serial ATA connections
- Coin cell battery (CMOS backup battery)
- RAID
- System panel connectors
- FWH
- Southbridge
- Serial port connector
- USB headers
- Jumpers
- Integrated circuit
- 1394 headers
- SPDIF
- CD-IN
Below is a listing of other motherboard components that are not shown in the above small picture or have been part of older computer motherboards.
- BIOS
- Cache memory
- Chipset
- Diode
- Dip switches
- Electrolytic
- Fuse
- Game port and MIDI header
- Internal speaker
- LCC
- Network header
- Obsolete expansion slots (AMR, CNR, EISA, ISA, VESA)
- Obsolete memory slots (SIMM)
- Onboard LED
- Parallel port header
- PS/2 header
- Resistor
- Serial port header
- Screw hole aka mounting hole
- SCSI
- Voltage regulator
- Voltage regulator module (VRM)
- AT
- ATX
- Baby AT
- BTX
- LPX
- Full AT
- Full ATX
- microATX
- NLX
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