RS-232 serial ports, Parallel ports, and PS2 mouse and keyboard ports. These days, all of these functions can be handled by Universal Serial Bus (USB ) connections.
An Input/Output Panel, which can be found on either the front or back of your computer. This panel usually contains USB Ports and both audio- and microphone ports. In some cases there is a Firewire and/or eSATA connector as well.
Ports on the mother board.
ports of a computer and its functions
root bridge, root ports, designated ports, nondesignated ports
The ports cannot communicate with other ports and port light turn to amber ...
Most motherboards come with at least six USB ports..
Legacy motherboards (and even some modern ones) would generally have: * An XT / AT or a PS/2 keyboard * A PS/2 mouse connector * 1 to 2 serial ports * 1 to 2 parallel (printer) ports
That depends on chipset. For instance Intel X58 can support up 4 ports natively + 2 for marvell controller. Server motherboards have more SATA ports available. Newer generation motherboards can support 6 and more SATA port natively.
Traditionally motherboards were built with 2 on board IDE ports. However more and more mother board's are coming with 1 due to the use of SATA ports. The one IDE port i usually used for the CD-ROM.
In case you want to connect to more than one network.
Motherboards anymore usually have: a mouse port (P/S2) a keyboard port (P/S2) a few USB ports a video port (15-pin VGA usually) and some kind of sound (with out, in, and microphone in)
A motherboard contains several integrated components. Most motherboards will contain: * An IDE controller * A SATA controller (on newer motherboards) * A floppy controller (on older motherboards) * RAM sockets * Expansion slot(s) * The BIOS chip * Power connector * Processor socket / slot * Serial ports (phased out on some newer motherboards) * Parallel ports (phased out on some newer motherboards) Many motherboards will also integrate components that can also be replaced by an add-in card: * Graphics chipset * Network controller * Sound card * USB connectors * FireWire connectors * Dial-up modem * eSATA connector
The sockets on the outside of a computer that plug into an expansion card are called ports. Depending on the expansion card, there can be a variety of ports including USB, audio and network ports.
To some extent yes, the motherboard does indeed determine what kind of hard drive to install. Most modern motherboards will have SATA ports for the hard drives. The SATA ports are small in size and are usually labeled as SATA1-SATA4 or however many the motherboard has. You can read it right on the board. Older motherboards, however, used to use PATA or IDE hard drives (PATA & IDE are the same thing but with two different names). An IDE port on a motherboard is about 3-4 times the size of a SATA port. The really old boards may not have the IDE port labeled, but most other motherboards will have the letters IDE (or PATA) written next to the IDE port. If you're referring to a motherboard from the last 5-7 years, the chances are that it has SATA ports. The best thing to do is to look at the motherboard.
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Common ports provided by most motherboards are as follows. Serial port (RS-232) Ethernet Port (Network interface) Parallel port. (Not nearly as common any longer) PS/2 Port (Mice and Keyboards) USB Ports (Covers most everything these days) Firewire port (IEEE1394, mostly used for video these days) eSATA Port (External Hard drive or device interface). There are others, but those are your most common ports on standard desktop motherboards. Servers are another story.
VGA is an acronym meaning Video/Visual Graphics Array. It is used to describe certain 15 pin plugs or ports found on video cards and monitors for computers. This being said there is no specific motherboard referred to as a "VGA". Most motherboards found on today's systems are usually either ATx or BTx.