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[email protected] Book: A+ Guide to Hardware: Managing, Maintaining and Troubleshooting © 2007 Cengage Learning Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this work may by reproduced or used in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, or mechanical, or in any other manner - without the written permission of the copyright holder. Chapter 3 : All About Motherboards (pp. 99-162) All about Motherboards: Overview In the last chapter, you learned about form factors and power supplies. You also learned how to work inside a computer. In this chapter, we build on all that knowledge to learn about motherboards, which techies sometimes call the mobo. You'll learn about the many different features of a motherboard and how to match one up with other components in a system. The firmware on the motherboard controls the beginning of the boot, so we'll look at the details of that process. Then you'll learn how to support a motherboard and that includes installing, replacing, configuring, and maintaining it. A motherboard is considered a field replaceable unit, so it's important to know how to replace one, but the good news is you don't need to know how to repair one that is broken. Troubleshooting a motherboard works hand in hand with troubleshooting the processor, so we'll leave troubleshooting both until the end of Chapter 4, Supporting Processors. All About Motherboards: Objectives In this chapter, you will learn: About the different types and features of motherboards How firmware on the mother-board controls what happens when you first turn on a PC before the OS is loaded How to install, configure, and maintain a motherboard P.