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Motherboard – Toshiba Equium 8100 User Manual

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Hardware for the Equium 8100M

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Equium 8100D/M

Equium 8100D/M – 04chap.doc – ENGLISH – Printed on 23/sep/01 as 03_800UK

Motherboard

The motherboard holds many of the computer’s internal components.

Locating the motherboard components

The following components are identified in the illustration:

Processor- Intel® Pentium® 4 processor; speed determined by your

build-to-order specification.

AGP expansion slot- One AGP slot provides a connection for a video

expansion card.

PCI expansion slots- Three PCI slots provide connections from the

motherboard to PCI expansion cards.

RTC (real-time clock) battery- Provides power to the real-time clock

and maintains CMOS settings when the computer is turned off.

Motherboard power connector- Provides the connection from the

power supply to the motherboard.

Floppy connector- For connecting floppy disk drives.
Memory slots- Three 168-pin DIMM sockets support system memory

from 128 MB up to 1.5 GB of SDRAM.

Secondary IDE connector- For connecting IDE devices such as

CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives.

Primary IDE connector- For connecting IDE hard disk drives.
Front bezel lamps/buttons power connector- Provides power to the

front bezel lamps and buttons.