PARTS OF MOTHERBOARD Size 12 x 9.6 9.6 x 9.6 6.

7 x
inch inch 6.7
-Mother board is made of Fiber Glass inch
-Copper to from conductive pathways No. 1
Expansion
CMOS- (COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE Card slot
SEMI CONDUCTOR)- It is responsible to No. of 2
Keeping all the info. Memory
Slot
BIOS- (Basic Input/Output System)- restored Developed 1995 2001
it can be accessed updated & modified the Year
via Bios Mode

IDE & SATA- (Integrated Development PERSONAL COMPUTER DISASSEMBLY:

Environment) (Serial Advance Technology
Attachment)-Storage Devices needed to 1. UNPLUGGING
connect to the Motherboard for DATA to be 2. OPENING THE OUTER SHELL/CASE
submitted & Retrieved. 3. REMOVING THE SYSTEM FAN
4. REMOVING THE CPU FAN
POWER CONNECTORS- ATX (Advance 5. REMOVING THE POWER SUPPLY
Technology Extended) – 20-24 pins it 6. REMOVING THE CD/DVD DRIVE
needed power directly from the PSU 7. REMOVING THE HARD DISK DRIVE
CABINET CONNECTORS- It is Located at the 8. REMOVING THE MEMORY (RAM)
bottom part of Motherboard, The front
audio port & front usb are also connected
here PERSONAL COMPUTER ASSEMBLY:

CPU SOCKET- Processor sits, This is where the 1. INSTALLING THE MEMORY (RAM)
processing & transfer of Data 2. INSTALLING THE HARD DISK DRIVE
EXPANSION CARD SLOT- (Expansion Buses)- If 3. INSTALLING THE CD/DVD DRIVE
you wish to upgrade to dedicated graphics 4. INSTALLING THE POWER SUPLLY
card the ecs let you do that 5. INSTALLING THE CPU FAN
6. INSTALLING THE SYSTEM FAN
AGP- Advanced Graphic Port 7. OPENING THE OUTER SHELL/ CASE
8. PLUGGING
PCI- Peripheral Component Interconnection

PCI EXPRESS

RAM- (Random Acess Memory)- This were

you place the RAM MODULE

FOUR FACTORS OF THE MOTHERBOARD

Point of ATX MICRO MINI

Comparison ATX ITX