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royalmarine
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dont know about the cache or isa slots sorry
but this is the bios chip
but this is the bios chip
Timo
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http://members.home.nl/ronald.vgastel/Image17.gif
To the left is the ISA slot (in my link), so it should be somewhere near the PCI-e Slots if I am correct?
(can't see a similar slot close to it because there are wires in front of it all, but I am not sure if I would've recognized it at all).
To the left is the ISA slot (in my link), so it should be somewhere near the PCI-e Slots if I am correct?
(can't see a similar slot close to it because there are wires in front of it all, but I am not sure if I would've recognized it at all).
Emperor_nero
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It doesn't look like it has an ISA slot, just PCI and AGP.
ISA is rather old why do you want it?
ISA is rather old why do you want it?
Ok dont worry about the ISA, guess I dont have one. I know the CPU is under the black fan with Intel written on it, is that a heatsink under the fan? What is the box next to that?
The green upside down battery looking things, what are they?
Trying to think if there is anything else important I need to identify.
The green upside down battery looking things, what are they?
Trying to think if there is anything else important I need to identify.
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It has no ISA slot. That is a heatsink under the CPU fan. If your talking about the green square under the CPU fan, that is a heatsink for the Northbridge chip to help keep it cool.
The top left corner is your Power Supply. Under the CPU fan is the CPU heatsink and the green square with ridges on it is the Northbridge chip heatsink.
Well you call it a chipset when you include the North and Southbridge together. The heatsink is to help keep it cool. The Northbridge tends to run alittle warm.
Looks like a ATX board. The North/Southbridge control the functions of the motherboard
Chips in the North and South
Figure 2 shows the top-level system architecture for a modern desktop PC, and almost every motherboard follows this convention. The system architecture used to look much more complicated, but integration has reduced a chipset to just 2 main components--the North Bridge (NB) and the South Bridge (SB). The term "Bridge" comes from a reference to a device that connects multiple busses together. The North/South nomenclature referred to whether a device lived above (North) or below (South) of the PCI bus on a block diagram. In the case of the North Bridge, the chip connects the front side bus [FSB] of the CPU to the DRAM bus, the AGP graphics bus, and the South Bridge. To a system designer, all the fast stuff lives in the North Bridge. The South Bridge is intended as the place to integrate all the (slower) peripherals like IDE, ISA, USB, etc.
http://www.gen-x-pc.com/mobo2.htm
The battery is to keep the setting in the bios/cmos when the power is killed.
Cache, depends where it is. Harddrives/CPU/CD-DVD drives all have cache. Its just a small amount of memory that the device can access faster.
Keyboard connector? Its the connector on the keyboard. Can be PS/2 or USB
Those upside down looking battery things are called Capacitors
Chips in the North and South
Figure 2 shows the top-level system architecture for a modern desktop PC, and almost every motherboard follows this convention. The system architecture used to look much more complicated, but integration has reduced a chipset to just 2 main components--the North Bridge (NB) and the South Bridge (SB). The term "Bridge" comes from a reference to a device that connects multiple busses together. The North/South nomenclature referred to whether a device lived above (North) or below (South) of the PCI bus on a block diagram. In the case of the North Bridge, the chip connects the front side bus [FSB] of the CPU to the DRAM bus, the AGP graphics bus, and the South Bridge. To a system designer, all the fast stuff lives in the North Bridge. The South Bridge is intended as the place to integrate all the (slower) peripherals like IDE, ISA, USB, etc.
http://www.gen-x-pc.com/mobo2.htm
The battery is to keep the setting in the bios/cmos when the power is killed.
Cache, depends where it is. Harddrives/CPU/CD-DVD drives all have cache. Its just a small amount of memory that the device can access faster.
Keyboard connector? Its the connector on the keyboard. Can be PS/2 or USB
Those upside down looking battery things are called Capacitors
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Vizy
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IDK if buses are actually hardware, but they are the little wires that run all over the mobo ( i think).
Some are and some are not. On yours I think its just the Northbridge, the Southbridge is the black square chip below your AGP card to the right alittle. Theres a few buses depending on the system-FSB/ISA/PCI/AGP/PCIe/Hypertransport