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What is the purpose of the motherboard?
What does houses the CPU, Allows all devices to communicate with each other and determines the capabilities and limitations of the system.
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Can be used to blow away the dust and dirt on the motherboard.
What is compressed air?
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More compact ATX design. Measures 11.2 x 8.2 inches
What is mini ATX?
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Keeps the beat for motherboard activities and frequency
What is system clock?
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MHz
What is Megahertz
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The four different motherboard types include...
What are AT, Baby AT, ATX, and Mini ATX?
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Occurs when the CPU must wait for another component
What is Wait State?
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Carries electrical power, control signals, memory addresses, and data.
What is a bus?
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Unidirectional bus pathway.
What is address bus?
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Bidrectional bus pathway
What is data bus?
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Oldest type of motherboard that uses P8 and P9 connections. Measures 12 x 13
What is AT?
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Smaller version of AT because motherboard logis is stored on smaller chipset. Uses P8 and P9. Measures 12x8.7 inches
What is Baby AT?
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Chip that provides control for main and cache memory, the front side bus, and the AGP and PCIe graphics that is closest to the CPU.
What is the northbridge chip?
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Carries the control and timing signals needed to coordinate the activities of the entire computer.
What is control bus?
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The main component in the PCI-based system also called the host bridge which monitors the microprocessor’s address bus to determine whether addresses are intended for devices on the system board, in a PCI slot, or in one of the system board’s other expansion slots
What is the PCI bus controller?
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Developed by Intel; More convienently accessible than older form. Includes a Power On Switch that can be software enabled for extra power and extra fans. Uses P1 connections. Measures 12x9.6 inches.
What is ATX?
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What can help a computer from overheating? in relation to the motherboard?
What is Motherboards have built in thermometers that will shut down the computer before it overheats. It is important to ensure the fan is working properly.
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Changing the speed of the system bus, or Changing the multiplier that determines the speed of CPU
What is How do you change the speed of the computer?
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System Bus Speed x Multiplier
What is Processor Speed
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Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)
What are expansion slots?
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The main components of a motherboard include (name 9)
What are CPU and its chipset System Clock RAM System bus with expansion slots Jumpers and DIP switches ROM BIOS CMOS configuration chip and its battery RAM RAM cache (L2) (optional) Ports directly on the board Power supply connections The main components of a motherboard
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What are the steps in checking the reasons of why a motherboard is not working properly?
What is check other components, check power supply, run diagnostic software and check documentation included with motherboard in relation to configuration.
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What are the considerations that must be made when chooosing a motherboard (Name 5)?
What is Type of case, ROM BIOS, Keyboard connector, Presence/absence of proprietary video and/or proprietary local bus slots, Presence/absence of IDE adapters and SCSI controller, Presence/absence of COM ports, LPT ports, and mouse port, Form factor, Power factor, Processor
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Firmware (hardware hard-coded with software) attached to the motherboard and is essential in booting the computer.
What is BIOS Chip?
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Chip that provides the real time clock, controls power management, and provides the controllers for the PCI bus and USB devices.
What is SouthBridge Chip?