Motherboards

AGP (accelerated graphics port) slots are special slots on the motherboard specifically designed to take a graphics card (or video card as they're often called).

In recent years AGP has been replaced by the PCI-express standard (or PCI-e as they are often referred to) and thus AGP is generally considered an obsolete format. Even so, AGP hardware is still available, but often at an increased cost & with decreased performance.

AGP slots came in a few different speeds. The most common of which was 4X and 8X slots. 8X slots could utilize higher performance 8X cards. A 4X slot is limited to only 4X cards. However, many 8X cards have the capability to be used in a 4X slot, this will usually be denoted in the specifications of the card.

775 - but almost phased out

1156 - for coewi3 nad core i5

1366 - for flagship i7

there are others for the xeon server chips (i think) but that's business and enterprise not consumer

Many different mother boards have been made to accomidate the latest microprocessors. I would say there have been 32 different mother board designs for handling the slot numbers of the processors.

Ground yourself.

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Use an external USB floppy drive.

If you MUST have internal.... if you're good and creative you -might- be able to disassemble an external USB floppy drive and mount it like an internal drive.

Alternatively, you could hunt down an old LS-120 "superdisk" drive. Its an IDE drive (40 pin connector, like your hdd or cdrom) that reads floppies (in addition to high-capacity proprietary disks)

The southbridge is a chip that connects thenorthbridge to other components inside the computer, including hard drives, network connections,USB and Firewire devices, the system clock, and standard PCI cards. The southbridge sends and receives data from the CPU through the northbridge chip, which is connected directly to the computer'sprocessor.

Nonintegrated system board , each major assembly is installed in the computer as an expansion card. Major assembles we are talking about are items like the video circuitry, disk controllers, and accessories. It is hard to find them these days.

Integrated system board. Most of the components that would otherwise be installed as expansion cards are integrated into the motherboard circuitry. . They were designed for simplicity. Of course there is a drawback for the simplicity : when one of the components breaks , u cant just replace the component that's broken , the whole motherboard must be replaced. Although these boards are cheaper to produce, they are expensive to repair.

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A coprocessor provides auxiliary functions or features that the main processor does not have. These might include floating point support or hardware encryption. A coprocessor is generally not usable without its main processor, whereas a processor may function in a crippled or less powerful form without a coprocessor. An example of a processor and a coprocessor pair would be the 80386 and the 80387.

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What you could be experiencing is is a short from the bottom part of the motherboard and one of the screws standoff in the computer case. First remove the mother board and notice all of the screws holes and examine the reverse side of the motherboard for scratches around these holes. if you find any use an insulator ( plastic or cardboard washer) on the underside of the hole where it meets the case srews stand-offs. Also check for screws already in place in these stand-offs that might be shorting the motherboard.

More details would be required to answer this I'm afraid.

Ie the model number of the motherboard. From here, we can be of more use to you.

Video Cards that work with that motherboard are either AGP 4x or AGP 8x.

See here for manufacturer info:

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=13&l3=56&model=217&modelmenu=1

Step 1: Open the case and discharge any static by touching something metal.
Step 2: Disconnect all the wires in the case to get the m out of the way. Be sure you know how to get them all back in the right way.
Step 3: Remove all the expansion cards such as video cards, sound cards, and network cards.
Step 4: If your power supply is top mounted, it probably blocks the motherboard. If it does, remove it. Most bottom mounted PSUs don't cover the motherboard.
Step 5: Turn your case on its side so the motherboard is on the bottom.
Step 6: Take the heatsink off the CPU. Remove the CPU.
Step 7: Take out the RAM cards.
Step 8: There should be a number of screws holding the motherboard in. Unscrew them.
Step 9: GENTLY lift the motherboard out BY THE EDGES, not the back or front.

Note that everything in your computer connects to the motherboard, so if you replace it be sure that everything is compatible.

A unit with several small rocker-type switches that plugs into a dual in-line package (DIP) on a printed circuit board.

Usually the most noticeable change is that the system time and date will reset every time the computer is powered off. It may also result in hard drives not being recognized, and the system giving an error message along the lines of "operating system not found"

RS232 is a communications protocol for electronic devices to exchange information

1)Time taken to error correcting is less than doing detection and retransmission.

Bandwidth use will be less.

2) In detection and retransmission if back messaging occurs the bandwidth will be more

Because the pins on the bottom of the processor can be easily bent (assuming that this is a processor for a PGA (Pin Grid Array) or SPGA (Staggerd PGA) socket. It is worth noting though that a processor for a LGA (Land Grid Array) socket is not as susceptible to this as the there are lands or pads on the bottom of the processor instead of pins; the pins are in the socket. The book that asks this question assumes PGA.

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Very true BUT you can bend the lands in an LGA socket, rendering the socket hence the motherboard useless!

As it's name implies, AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slots are commonly used for high-performance video cards. Other devices using the AGP slot are possible, but rare. It could also be used for sound cards, extra USB card...

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On an ATX motherboard, the CPU will be placed above and parallel to the expansion slots, towards the top of the case. On an AT or Baby AT motherboard, the CPU will be placed in front of the expansion slots, towards the front of the case.

In order to take advantage of the Dual Channel option on your motherboard, you will need a matched pair of memory.

If you only install one stick of 512 MB memory, you will have to turn off the Dual Channel capabilities on your motherboard.

If you install a matched pair of 256 MB memory, you can keep Dual Channel enabled.

I would recommend buying at least 2x512 MB if not 2x1 GB of memory. Prices for 2x256 MB may be very expensive compared to 2x1 GB.

hi: most times it is either a bad power supply fan or either a CPU fan ,and sometimes a power surge,also they get dirty inside . heat and dust are a killer to any computer. i do hope this helps someone. Ron

it also happen due to ESD (Electro static discharge).