Exam 7: Motherboards

Briefly list the four steps one would take when selecting a case and motherboard.

Cases come in many sizes; _______________ and desktop models generally sit on the desk, beneath the monitor.

What should you do to fix an ethereal failure related to the motherboard?

Which term refers to the millions of incorrectly formulated bulging capacitors that made it into computers in the mid-2000s and then failed at high rates?

Every device soldered to the motherboard is designed to run at the speed of the _______________.

What steps should you take to correct a downward-pointing arrow error in Device Manager?

What is the importance of the motherboard book?

List the four speed grades featured in the PCI-X 2.0 standard.

Which form factor is the largest and the most popular of the three ITXs?

Modern motherboards are layered _______________, in which copper is etched onto a nonconductive material and then coated with some sort of epoxy for strength.

_______________ motherboards enable companies to create systems that stand out from the generic ones.

For almost all expansion cards, their BIOS comes in the form of _______________-software support programs-loaded from an optical disc provided by the card manufacturer.

Why are the connections and capabilities of a motherboard sometimes different from those that the chipset of the motherboard uses?

Shortly after inventing PCI, Intel presented a specialized, video-only version of PCI called the _______________.

RAID _______________ refers to making two drives act as one drive by spreading data across them, which is good for speed.

An AGP slot was a PCI slot; however, it had a direct connection to the _______________.

Flashing the BIOS entails running a small command-line program to write a new BIOS in the flash _______________ chip.

How do an expansion bus and its slots connect to the rest of the PC?

Why should you document your troubleshooting efforts?

All motherboards come with a technical manual, better known as the _______________ book.