Motherboards
This specification is the standard form factor for most desktop PC motherboards and is 12 inches wide by 9.6 inches deep and can contain up to seven expansion slots.
ATX
A square socket component.
What is the CPU?
The panel which should be removed so that the technician can gain access to the optical drive and connect cables when a support technician needs to install an optical disk drive in a new tower.
What is the side panel?
Modern connectors and ports dont use this of this connection.
What are internal connection points?
Older computers with video cards that can support both analog and digital monitors use this type of video interface.
What is DVI?
The external connection point for a particular type of bus interface and the connector is the part of a peripheral cable that inserts into a port with the same shape.
What is an input/output (I/O) port?
The technician will use an adapter cable to connect the HDMI port on the laptop with a USB port on the monitor. An adapter cable has connectors for two different cable types at each end.
What does the function of an adapter do?
PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) motherboards can include PCI ports to support legacy adapter cards, but PCI cards cannot fit into PCIe slots.
Can PCI cards cannot fit into PCIe slots?
This power connector, connects the hard drive to the PC’s power supply.
What is a 15-pin SATA power connector?
This is no longer in active development and is only on older display devices and video cards.
What is DVI?
A support technician is installing a PCIe card that will use a combination of system memory and 8GBs of dedicated memory. The installation of this item will enable up to 12 GB of dedicated memory and may use a mix of dedicated and shared, or system, memory.
What is a graphics adapter or video card?
These are commonly used to connect hard disks, as well as other storage devices like tape drives, CD/DVD drives, and external storage devices.
What are SCSI connectors?
A support technician plugged a monitor with a USB C cable connector into a USB C port on the computer, but the monitor would not function because it was not a Thunderbolt version 3 cable.
Why would a monitor not work with a USB C cable connector into a USB C port on the computer?
This connector is used to conenct the hard disk to the motherboard.
What is a small computer system interface (SCSI) connector?
In Windows, this is the serial port, or Recommended Standard #232 (RS-232) port.
What is the communications (COM) port?