MOTHERBOARDS

SIM TECHNOLOGIES STUDY

MATERIAL DEPT
INTRODUCTION TO MOTHERBOARD
WHAT IS MOTHERBOARD ?
 Motherboard is called as a
Headquarter of the system.
 Motherboard is referred to as the
Longest Printed Circuit Board of the
System (PCB)
 Motherboard is used to attach all the
components and pass the instruction
between the components to create
the process inside the system.
IDENTIFICATION OF
MOTHERBOARD
 Motherboard is identified by its CPU
socket number and available
components
 Some of the Identification are

P-IV: PGA 478

P-III: PGA 370
P-II: SLOT 1
P-I: SOCKET 7
WHAT DOES MOTHERBOARD HAS

MOTHERBOARD

PORTS SLOTS CONNECTORS

MOTHERBOARD…
MOTHERBOARD HAS 3 Major Division
consisting of
 PORTS

 SLOTS

 CONNECTORS
PORTS
 PORTS is called as IN and OUT point
of the system.
 Basically the Ports on Motherboard
are responsible for IN and OUT
operations of the system.
 There are various types of PORTS
available at the Back Panel of the
system
Types of Ports…..
SLOTS & CONNECTORS
 SLOTS and CONNECTORS are
available on board which is used to
connect the Internal devices in the
system.
 SLOTS are used to connect various
Cards while CONNECTORS are used
to connect various Internal Devices
 There are various type of SLOTS and
CONNECTORS available On-Board
Types of SLOTS & CONNECTORS
OTHER OBJECT ON BOARD
 NORTH BRIDGE
 SOUTH BRIDGE
 BIOS CHIP
 OTHER OBJECT ON BOARD
 NORTH BRIDGE: It is a chip which is closer
to the CPU. It is responsible for handling the
communication between the RAM and
Processor
 SOUTH BRIDGE: It is a chip which is closer to
the I/O Slots. It is responsible for handling
the communication between I/O port & RAM
 BIOS CHIP: It maintains the System Setting
FULL DIAGRAM OF MOTHERBOARD
TYPES OF MOTHERBOARD

MOTHERBOARD

NON
INTEGRATED
INTERGRATED
MOTHERBOARD
MOTHERBOARD
INTEGRATED MOTHERBOARD
INTEGRATED MOTHERBOARD
 Integrated Motherboard is a board
which has everything In-built.
 In these type of Motherboard all are
on-board and does not require any
kind of Cards
 Some of the On-board things are
DISPLAY,LAN,SOUND,MODEM,USB
NON-INTEGRATED MOTHERBOARD
NON-INTEGRATED MOTHERBOARD
 Non-Integrated Motherboard is a
board which has no Ports available.
 These type of Motherboards require
various kind of Cards to do input
output operations
 Some of the Cards available are are
DISPLAY Card, LAN Card, SOUND
Card, Internal MODEM,USB Card
 How it all connects together

backside bus Pentium

L2 Cache
(in the CPU
housing – on die)
CPU L1 cache
frontside bus

64 bit data bus 32 bit address bus

North Bridge AGP

RAM (Memory Controller)
AGP bus
memory bus
HDD scanner

EIDE South Bridge PCI modem

PCI bus
CD/DVD sound
ISA bus
keyboard FDD
ISA
mouse BIOS
BUSES
 BUSES are referred as the carrier of
signals which are responsible for
carrying the signals from one location
to the other on the motherboard.
 There are various type of BUSES
available like ADDRESS BUS,DATA
BUS,SYSTEM BUS
Troubleshooting Motherboards
 Burn-in failure
 PC won’t boot
 Incorrectly seated RAM
 Incorrectly seated Graphics Card
 Power surges
 ESD
 Intermittant faults
Buying a motherboard
 Intel or AMD processor
 Asus, Abit, Gigabyte, Tyan, Shuttle
 ATX case and ATX power supply
 Clock speed