From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
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Motherboards
From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
Motherboards
- Input processing, output storage. The computing process components need connectivity to function. The motherboard provides that connectivity. Everything plugs directly or indirectly into the motherboard in computing devices. Motherboards come in all shapes and sizes. Let's look at a big modern one to show connections and how things are organized. You find this style of motherboard in modern desktop workstation computers. This form factor is called ATX and there's a smaller version called, Micro ATX. Note, the Greek symbol, Mu, that's often used in place of the word, Micro. Let's do a close up please. We've already seen the inside of a motherboard, where the CPU plugs in and where the RAM goes into its little slots. But what I want to look at now, is the backplate. These are for input devices, where the keyboard and mouse plug in, for an example. These four connectors here, are for video. They go out to various monitor types. These are USB for plugging in your thumb drives. Here's…
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