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RANGANATHAN POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE COMPUTER HARDWARE AND NETWORKING
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UNIT-1 MOTHERBOARD COMPONENTS AND MEMORY STORAGE DEVICES 1. What is Computer?
 A computer is defined as an electronic data processing machine. It receives and stores large amount of information and process them at a high speed according to the given instructions.
2. What are the classifications of computer?
The computer are classified as below, *PC or personal computer. *PC-XT or personal computer with extended technology. *PC-AT or personal computer with advanced technology. *PC- Pentium.
3. What Is Daughter boards (Interface Cards)?
Interface cards are electronic circuits that enable a PC to connect to or interface with another device. These are inserted into one of the I/O expansion slots available in the motherboard.
4. What are the types of daughter boards?
*IDE card. *SCSI card. *Network interface cards.
5. What is expansion slots?
The I/O devices like FDD,HDD, printers and mouse are connected to the CPU through their respective interface cards. These interface cards are connected in the I/O expansion slots available in the motherboard.
 
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6. What are the front panel controls & rear side connectors? *Front Panel Controls:
This unit include LED‟s and Switches.
 
*Rear Side Connectors:
The serial port connectors , parallel port connector ,  VGA video port, keyboard connect, Audio Video connectors and BNC/RJ-45 connectors.
7.What is RAM?
RAM stands for Random Access Memory. It is used for storing programs temporarily. RAM is located on SIMMs ( Single Inline Memory Module) and DIMMs( Dual Inline Module).
8. What is memory?
The cache is a fast memory which lies between the CPU and RAM. It speeds up the overall performance of the system CPU can access frequently needed data from the cache more than from RAM.
9. What is motherboard components?
Components of mother boards are *CPU *BIOS *RAM *Cache RAM * Bus expansion slots * On-board I/O connectors
 
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*On-board IDE connectors
10. What is CPU?
The CPU(Central processing unit) is the brain of the computer in which the majority of the computing tasks are carried out. The CPU may have a heat sink installed on it for dissipate the heat generated by the CPU.
11. What are the different types of memory modules?
*SIMM-Single Inline Memory Module. *DIMM- Dual Inline Memory Module. *RIMM.
12. What are types of bus?
*PC/PC-XT Bus. *Local bus. *PCI Bus. *AGP bus. *USB.
13. What is chipsets?
 A chipset or PCI set is a group of microcircuits. This controls and co-ordinate the flow of data to and from the CPU, main memory, the devices connected on the ISA and PCI buses, the hard drives, any devices connected to the IDE channels.
14.What is processors?
Processor is the central component of the computer. So it is otherwise called as CPU. It is responsible for all operations of the computer. The quality (speed, accuracy etc) of a computer is determined by the CPU.

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