Parent board (English: motherboard)
is a circuit board where a variety of interconnected electronic
components such as on a PC or Macintosh and commonly abbreviated to mobo
says.
Another sense of the motherboard or in other words, the mainboard is the
main form of pcb board that has a bios chip (driver program), lines and
connectors for connecting each device access.
Motherboards are mostly found in the market today is the PC's
motherboard was first made on the basis of specifications to IBM PC.
Motherboard or collectively, the Parent Board Motherboard is the main
component of a PC, because the motherboard was all the components of
your PC will be united. Form of the motherboard such as an electronic
circuit board. The motherboard is the place passed lalangnya data. The
motherboard connects all the computer equipment and make it work
together so that the computer running smoothly.
Main board components (motherboard)
- Power Connector
Pin power connector that connects the motherboard to the power
supply in case of a computer. In the AT type motherboard, casing is
needed is the type of AT as well. AT type power connector consists of
two parts, where the two wires from the power supply will be stuck
there. In type ATX, power supply cables together in one header is
intact, so you just drove it on the motherboard. This cable consists of
two columns correspond to the pin on the motherboard that consists of
two pin array as well. There are several types of motherboard provides
two power connectors, AT and ATX. Most new motherboards have ATX type.
- Processor Socket or Slot
There are several types of plugs to plug in your processor. Model
longest ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) Socket 7 or Socket 7 popular terms.
Socket is compatible to Intel-made processors, AMD, or Cyrix. Processor
models are usually used for a long time (up to generation 233 MHz).
There is another socket called Socket 370. Socket to Socket 7 is similar
but the number of pins as the name suggests, 370 seeds. Socket is
compatible with Intel-made processors. While AMD's own name with the
term socket Socket A, where the pin is also different from the socket
370. A term used to designate the brand AMD Athlon processor. For Intel
Pentium processor family II and III, which is used slot called Slot 1,
while the motherboards that support AMD processors use a slot A to slot
kind of like it.
- North bridge controller
VIA VT8751A prsessor that provide an interface with 533/400MHz
frequency, which supports Intel Hypertheading Tecnologi, system memory
interface to be operating at 266MHz, and 1.5V AGP interface that
supports AGP 2.0 specification including 4X write speed protocol.
- Memory Socket
Also there are two types of memory sockets are now circulating on
the computer. Indeed, there is also a new socket for Rambus DRAM, but
until now there has been a lot of users who use it. Socket length is
still quite popular is the SIMM. Socket pin consists of 72 modules. The
second socket has 168 pin modules, which are designed in one direction.
You can not put it upside down, because the strain on the motherboard
has been adapted to the type of DIMM memory sockets.
- Floppy and IDE connectors
This connector connects the motherboard to save computer devices
such as floppy disk or hard drive. IDE connector on a motherboard
usually consists of two, one is the primary IDE and the other is the
secondary IDE. Primary IDE connector connects the motherboard to drive
primary master and secondary master device. Meanwhile, the secondary IDE
connector is usually connected with CDROM pirantipiranti to such slave
and the slave drive. How to connect a pin with cable? It was easy. IDE
ribbon cable has a dash of red on one side. Strip the red mark, the red
berstrip cable plugged in the pin number 1 on the connectors. When the
stick upside down, the device is attached will not be recognized by the
computer. The same goes for the cable connecting the floppy with the pin
on the motherboard.
- AGP 4X slot
This image penyelerasi port slot graphics card supports 3.3V/1.5V AGP 4X mode for 3D graphics applications.
- South bridge controller
VIA VT8235 integrated peripheral controller which supports various I
/ O functions including 2-channel ATA/133 bus master IDE controller, up
to 6 USB 2.0 ports, LCP interface super I / O, AC'97 interface and PCI
2.2.
- Standby Power LED
This LED lights up if there is a standby power on the motherboard.
This LED acts as a reminder (reminder) to turn off the system power
before turning on or turning off the engine.
- PCI slots
Pegembangan slot PCI 2.2 32-bit PCI bus master in9i mensopport cart cart like SCSI or LAN with a maximum output of 133MB / s.
- PS / 2 Mouse Port
This green 6-pin connector is for the mouse.
- Parallel and Serial ports
In type AT, serial and parallel port not integrated in the
motherboard but is connected via cable. Thus, the pin motherboard
available for plugging in a cable. Bermacammacam parallel port
functions, ranging from connecting a computer with printer, scanner, up
to connect a computer with specific peripherals designed using the
parallel port connection. Serial port is typically used to connect the
cable modem or mouse. There are also other devices that can be plugged
into the serial port. The type of ATX motherboard, parallel and serial
ports are integrated in the motherboard, so you do not need to plug in
the cables of a troublesome.
- RJ-45 Port
Port 25-pin connector connects the LAN through a central network.
- Line in jack
Line in jack (light blue) menghuungkan the tape player or other
audio sources. At 6-channel mode, this jack funsi menjadai bass /
middle.
- Line out jack
jack line out (lime) connects to headphones or speakers. At 6-channel mode, this function is a speaker out jack next.
- Microphone jack
Jack mic (pink) is synchronize to the microphone. At 6-channel mode funsi rear speaker out jack is back.
- USB 2.0 port 1 and port 2
Status of port USB (universal serial bus) 4-pin is provided for connecting to USB devices 2.0.
- USB 2.0 port 3 and port 4
Status of port USB (universal serial bus) 4-pin is provided for connecting to USB devices 2.0.
- Video Graphics Adapter Port
15-pin port is for a VGA monitor or VGA-compatible devices
- Keyboard connector
There are two types of connectors that connect the motherboard to
the keyboard. One is a serial connector, while the other one is a PS / 2
connector. AT type serial connector or a round, larger than the model
of the PS / 2 had, with a pin hole total of 5 pieces. Meanwhile, PS / 2
connector has a pin hole 6 pieces and half its diameter is smaller than
the model of AT.
- CMOS battery
This battery serves to provide power to the motherboard to
recognize the installed configuration, when he did not / do not get
power from the power supply.