Unit4 Assignment 1

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Stafone Jefferson Unit4Assignment1 Motherboard specifically refers to a PCB with expansion capability - the board is the "mother" of all components attached to it, which often include sound cards, video cards, network cards, hard drives or other forms of persistent storage, TV tuner cards, cards providing extra USB or Firewire slots, and a variety of other custom components. A motherboard provides the electrical connections by which the other components of the system communicate. Unlike a backplane, it also contains the central processing unit and hosts other subsystems and devices. Motherboard Most important consideration * Motherboard CPU Size and Shape * Determined by form factor ATX Form Factor * Replaced older AT form factor * Smaller * Better Organization * Easier to work on * Support for variety of I/O Devices Soft Power Switch * Front of Computer * Does not immediately cut power * Allows Normal OS shutdown process Power Switch * Back of computer * Immediately kills all power Wake on LAN * Configured in CMOS * Keyboard * Network Activity…show more content…
In the late 1980s, personal computer motherboards began to include single ICs (called Super I/O chips) capable of supporting a set of low-speed peripherals: keyboard, mouse, floppy disk drive, serial ports, and parallel ports. By the late 1990s, many personal computer motherboards supported a full range of audio, video, storage, and networking functions without the need for any expansion cards at all; higher-end systems for 3D gaming and computer graphics typically retained only the graphics card as a separate component. This section on the motherboard was very informative and you can really see why it is to me one of the most important part of any computer

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