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Motherboard. Computer Peripherals First Semester Second year Faculty of computers and information. Peripheral devices. Main devices VGA card, CPU, Power supply, RAM, … Secondary devices Mouse, Speakers, CD drive, …. Motherboard.
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Motherboard Computer Peripherals First Semester Second year Faculty of computers and information
Peripheral devices • Main devices VGA card, CPU, Power supply, RAM, … • Secondary devices Mouse, Speakers, CD drive, …
Motherboard • Also called mainboard • Logical concept: • The infrastructure of power and data of the computer. • Physical concept: • A multilayer printed circuit.
Motherboard • Connections to motherboard: • Direct connections - Cards connections • Indirect connections - Hard disk connections
Motherboard Components PS/2 Mouse& Ps/2 Keyboard Connector LPT 1 Printer Port AGP Expansion Slot CMOS Battery USB Port BIOS Chip ATX Power Connector PCI Expansion Slots CPU Socket 370 DIMM Memory Sockets Floppy Drive Controller ChipSet 5
Motherboard components 1. Buses Data bus Address bus Control bus CPU Memory Input Output
Motherboard components 2. RAM banks (Ram slots)
Motherboard components 3. Processor socket
Motherboard components 4. IDE Controllers ( ATA or PATA cable)
Motherboard components 5. BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) - considered a ROM - perform POST (Power On Self Test). - responsible for operating the computer until loading OS. - responsible for recognizing any new hardware. - responsible for the basic input and output operations. - PHOENIX , AWARD
Motherboard components 6. CMOS - A small memory with a battery. - responsible for saving some important information such as date, time and password.
Motherboard components 7. PCI slots and AGP slot - AGP :Accelerated Graphics Port - PCI :Peripheral Component Interconnect - for connecting various cards ( sound, fax and VGA cards ). - Sound and VGA cards may be built-in Adv:- Sheep Dis:- - sound card : no problem - VGA card : needs its own memory, it will be from main memory
Motherboard components 8. ATX Power Connector
Motherboard components 9. ChipSet A set of chips that provides the interfaces between all of the PC's subsystems. It provides the buses and electronics to allow the CPU, memory and input/output devices to interact.
Motherboard components 10. PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Connector
Motherboard components 11. parallel port ( LPT 1 Printer Port )
Motherboard components 12. Serial Ports ( Com1 and Com2 Ports )
Motherboard components 13. USB Ports ( Universal Serial Bus ) - USB 1.0 , USB 1.1 12 Mbps - USB 2.0 480 Mbps
Motherboard components 14. North Bridge and South Bridge
Motherboard components VGA card CPU RAM North Bridge South Bridge Hard disk card card card
That’s it! Thanks for your attention