CompTIA A+ 220-901 Motherboard Components PDF

CompTIA A+ Certification (Exam 220-901) 1.1 Motherboard Components This courseware is copyrighted © 2017 gtslearning. No part of this courseware or any training material supplied by gtslearning International Limited to accompany the coursew...

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If you suspect that this course has been copied or distributed illegally, please telephone or email gtslearning.  Objectives Identify different case types and how to access system components Distinguish ATX, ITX, and proprietary motherboard form factors Identify components of the motherboard and describe the functions of the chipset Identify expansion bus slots and cards and describe the features of different bus standards 3 1.1 Motherboard Components  System Case Types Tower Small Form Factor (SFF) All-in-one 3 1.1 Motherboard Components  Tower Case HP Compaq Proliant tower case (cover removed) showing 1) Motherboard; 2) Expansion slots; 3) Power supply; 4) 5.25" Drive bays; 5) Floppy disk drive bay; 6) 3.5" Drive bays (for hard drives) (© Hewlett-Packard Development Company) 3 1.1 Motherboard Components  SFF and All-in-One PCs Shuttle XPC (© 2014 Shuttle Computer) HP Envy Recline All-in-One PC with touch monitor (Image © 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P) 4 1.1 Motherboard Components  Parts of the Case (© 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company) 6 1.1 Motherboard Components  Removing the System Case Backup Work environment Tools and equipment o PC toolkit o Notepad and pen o Digicam Powered off and unplugged from the mains Anti-static precautions 7 1.1 Motherboard Components  Motherboard Layout GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-UD5H motherboard showing 1) CPU slot; 2) Memory slots; 3) Connectors for disk drives; 4) Slots for adapter cards; 5) I/O ports (USB, video, audio, etc) (Image © 2015 GIGA-BYTE Technology Co., Ltd. gigabyte.com) 8 1.1 Motherboard Components  Motherboard Form Factors ATX (Advanced Technology eXtended) o 12”x9.6” o 7 expansion slots Micro ATX o 9.6”x9.6” o 4 expansion slots Mini-ITX o 6.7”x6.7” o 1 expansion slot 8 1.1 Motherboard Components  Front Panel Connectors Power button / reset button (soft power) Power light Drive (HDD) activity lights USB ports Audio ports Jumper settings 10 1.1 Motherboard Components  Power and Fan Connectors Typical power connectors on a GIGABYTE motherboard: 1) Main connector for the PSU (ATX / P1); 2) Dedicated CPU power (EPS12V); 3) CPU fan connector; 4) Chassis and power supply fan connectors (Image © 2015 GIGA-BYTE Technology Co., Ltd. gigabyte.com) 11 1.1 Motherboard Components  Bus Architecture Motherboard wiring connecting components o Data o Address o Power Internal and external System clock and bus speed Parallel versus serial types 12 1.1 Motherboard Components  Data Units and Transfer Rates Binary bit values (0 or 1) Bit multiples o 8 bits form a byte (B) o 1024 bytes make a kilobyte (that is 2 ^ 10 bytes) o 1024 kilobytes (KB) make a Megabyte (MB) or 1,048,576 bytes o 1024 MB make 1 Gigabyte (GB) or 1,073,741,824 bytes o 1024 GB make 1 Terabyte (TB) Kilo = 1024? Or 1000? o When it’s file size or memory, kilo = 1024 (KiB, MiB, GiB, but these units are almost never used) o Disk capacity is often decimal (300 GB = 286 GiB) Transfer speeds o Bits and Bytes per second o Don’t confuse 10 Gbps with 10 GBps o Always decimal (56 Kbps = 56,000 bps) 13 1.1 Motherboard Components  CPU Socket GIGABYTE motherboard with 1) CPU socket; 2) Northbridge chipset; 3) Southbridge chipset (Image © 2015 GIGA-BYTE Technology Co., Ltd. gigabyte.com) 14 1.1 Motherboard Components  Chipset and Memory Architecture 15 1.1 Motherboard Components  System RAM Slots Random Access Memory (RAM) o System RAM slots o Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) Flash memory DIMM system memory slots on a GIGA-BYTE motherboard (Image © 2015 GIGA-BYTE Technology Co., Ltd. gigabyte.com) 16 1.1 Motherboard Components  System Firmware and Battery BIOS (Basic Input / Output System) Power-on Self-Test (POST) Real Time Clock (RTC) Setup menus Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) RTC coin cell battery (non-rechargeable Complementary Metal- CR2032 lithium battery) on a GIGABYTE motherboard (Image © 2015 GIGA- BYTE Technology Co., Ltd. Oxide Semiconductor gigabyte.com) (CMOS) NVRAM (Non-volatile) 17 1.1 Motherboard Components  Expansion Slots Plug-in cards installed in slots on motherboard Add functionality / ports Legacy expansion bus standards o Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) o Pre Plug-and-Play Modern expansion bus standards o Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) o PCI-X o PCI Express 18 1.1 Motherboard Components  PCI Bus Bus width and clock speed o Shared bandwidth o 32-bit o Usually 33.3 MHz Adapter card and slot form factors o 3.3V vs 5V signaling o Keyed connectors PCI-X o 64-bit and higher clock speeds o Usually only deployed on servers o NOT the same as PCI Express 18 1.1 Motherboard Components  PCI Express (PCIe) Serial, point-to-point bus Links and lanes o 250 MBps bi-directional o x1, x4, x8, x16 (4 GBps) o Adapters are up-pluggable but not down-pluggable PCI (1), x1 PCIe (2), x8 PCIe (3), and x16 PCIe (4) slots on a GIGA-BYTE motherboard (Image © 2015 o Power (75W + 75W) GIGA-BYTE Technology Co., Ltd. gigabyte.com) Versions o v2 500 MBps per lane o v2.1 power 150W + 150W o v3 1 GBps per lane HP PCIe video (x16 slot) and LAN (x1 lot) cards (© 2014 Hewlett-Packard Mini PCI / PCIe Development Company) 20 1.1 Motherboard Components  Review Identify different case types and how to access system components Distinguish ATX, ITX, and proprietary motherboard form factors Identify components of the motherboard and describe the functions of the chipset Identify expansion bus slots and cards and describe the features of different bus standards 23 1.1 Motherboard Components  Labs Lab 1 / Identifying PC Components 1.1 Motherboard Components