MOTHER BOARD

Mother Board

1.       At Mother Board (AT –Advance technology)

-small than ATX Mother Board.

-5 pin DIN key board connector.

-power supply connector from SMPS to mother board is of 12 pin.

2.   ATX Mother Board (ATX-Advanced Technology Extended)

-PS/2 key board connector.

-power supply connector from SMPS to mother board is of 20 pin.

-All most all parts are built in.

34 Pin Connector

-          34 pin connector on Mother board to connect floppy disk drive (FDD).

-          Through single 34 pin connector, we can connect two Floppy Disk Drive.

-          To connect FDD to Mother Board, we us flat ribbon cable.

40 pin connector

-          On mother board there are two 40 pin connect hard disk (HD), CD-ROM

Drive, CD-R/W Drive.

-          Through single 40 pin connector, we can connect 2 devices.

CPU Socket/ZIF Socket (ZIF-Zero Insertion Force)

CPU socket on mother board is used to mount central processing unit this select is also called ZIF. A ZIF socket contains n number on it which is asked to identify motherboard easily. According to CPU socket number, we have to find out the type of mother board.

Socket 7,8 –(PI)

SLOT 1   -(PII)

PGA 370     - (PIII)

PGA423 & PGA478-(PIV)

PGA418 & PGA611-(Itanium)

RAM Slots (RAM-Random Access Memory)

-          Used to fix the RAM Card.

-          RAM is also called as work space or place of CPU.

-          It also called the capability of computers.