Basic Components on a Motherboard
Motherboard

1 ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) bus slots for plugging in older 8 and 16-bit adapter cards.
2 PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus slots for plugging in newer 32-bit adapter cards.
3 Hard drive controller connectors.
4 Power connector.
5 Parallel port connector.
6 Floppy disk controller connector.
7 SIMM (Single In-line Memory Module) sockets for adding memory.
8 Lithium backup battery for the CMOS.
9 Configuration jumper block for changing the ISA bus clock, clearing a CMOS password, resetting the CMOS to the default settings, etc.
10 Front panel connectors for the internal speaker, keyboard and hard drive lights, +12v fan, etc.
11 Pentium processor in a Socket 5 connector.
12 256K cache (those systems with an external cache only).


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