Basic Components on a Motherboard
Motherboard

1ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) bus slots for plugging in older 8 and 16-bit adapter cards.
2PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus slots for plugging in newer 32-bit adapter cards.
3Hard drive controller connectors.
4Power connector.
5Parallel port connector.
6Floppy disk controller connector.
7SIMM (Single In-line Memory Module) sockets for adding memory.
8Lithium backup battery for the CMOS.
9Configuration jumper block for changing the ISA bus clock, clearing a CMOS password, resetting the CMOS to the default settings, etc.
10Front panel connectors for the internal speaker, keyboard and hard drive lights, +12v fan, etc.
11Pentium processor in a Socket 5 connector.
12256K cache (those systems with an external cache only).


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