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Inside Your Computer

The motherboard connects all the hardware components in a PC like the CPU, memory, storage drives, and expansion cards. It has slots and connections that allow components like the CPU, RAM, and ROM chips to be installed. The motherboard coordinates the components and allows them to communicate with each other.

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Inside Your Computer

The motherboard connects all the hardware components in a PC like the CPU, memory, storage drives, and expansion cards. It has slots and connections that allow components like the CPU, RAM, and ROM chips to be installed. The motherboard coordinates the components and allows them to communicate with each other.

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1.

Inside a PC
CD-ROM
drive

Power
supply

Hard disk
drive
Mother
board

Sound/network
cards
Wires and
ribbon cables
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MOTHERBOARD
The main goal is to connect all the hardware together like
hard drives, memory modules, CPU, etc..
A computer motherboard is made
of several parts and each one has
a hardware that can be connected
to it.

Fundamentals of Computers Lecture 1

Motherboard Picture
Read-only
Memory
(ROM)
chips

Random Access
Memory (RAM)
chips.

Expansion slots

Processor chip
(the CPU)
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RAM

( Random Access Memory ) called as the main memory


RAM chips usually reside on a memory module,
which is a small circuit board.
Memory slots on the motherboard hold memory
modules.
RAM is volatile, meaning that information
written to RAM will disappear when the
computer is turned off.

Fundamentals of Computers Lecture 1

4. ROM
Read-Only Memory can
be read but not changed.
It is non-volatile storage: it remembers
its contents even when the power is
turned off.

ROM chips are used to store the


instructions a computer needs during
start-up, called firmware.

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Processors (CPUs)
The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the chip on the motherboard that
acts as the "computer's brain"
it does calculations, and coordinates the other motherboard
components
CPU examples: the Pentium, the PowerPC chip
The CPU is also known as the processor or microprocessor.

PowerPC Chip

Pentium Chip
Chip Fan
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4. Expansion Slots
Common expansion cards:
graphics card (for connecting to a monitor)
network card (for transmitting data over a network)
sound card (for connecting to a microphone and
speakers)

Video Card
An expansion card which generates output images to a
display
Can also add the ability for multiple monitors.

BIOS
Basic Input/Output system The program which starts up
your computer and communicates between the devices in
your computer such as your hard drive and graphics card
and the system

Power supply
Supplies direct current (DC) power to the other
components in a computer

Heatsink or Fan
Lessens the heat from the processor, preventing it from
over heating.

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