C.S.1. Motherboard (What is this?)

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The main circuit board of a computer. The motherboard contains the connectors for attaching additional boards. Typically, the motherboard contains the CPU, BIOS, 184 PIN DDR memories, ULTRA –IDE drive controller serial and parallel ports, PCI expansion slots, and all the controllers required to control standard peripheral devices. Collectively, all these chips that reside on the motherboard are known as the motherboard’s chipset. 

ATX motherboard is more popular and has the small advantage that it allows automatic power- off on shut down.

Latest Pentium 4 motherboards include 184 pin DDR memory slots, 478 processor socket, AGP(Accelerated Graphics ports) slots for graphics card, USB port( (U)niversal (S)erial (B)us). New Pentium 4 motherboard has 400MHz OR 433MHz SYSTEM BUS Speed.

The BIOS (Setup program), an acronym for basic Input/output system, is a vital part of a computer’s system, without which nothing can work. Note that if you see the term CMOS in relation to the BIOS, or even mistakenly used as a term for the BIOS, this stands for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor. This is the material that the BIOS chip is made of, it is not the chip itself – or any of its contents. The BIOS program is the first component to start up when you switch a computer on. When the BIOS program runs, it uses a mathematical technique called the “checksum” to make sure the code it contains is sound. If the code fails to pass the checksum test, the BIOS reverts to using its built-in default settings.