Sitting here this afternoon bringing up online one of my computers, I was struck by the fact that if a person looks at the periphials attached to the computer tower such as the monitor, keyboard, scanner, printer, SCSI Kit, and maybe external drives of some type; that they all are tied together through the motherboard (MOBO). The same goes for the internal drives - hard drives (HDDs), floppy drive, CD ROM and similar drives. Picture it in your mind. And if you have not been into a computer tower before there are interconnecting cables from the drives to the MOBO whereas external components are connected to the back or front of the tower and then to the MOBO again through cables.

The computer components are hooked together physically which is needed. but we need to also interconnect all the components with little software programs called drivers.

Once this is done picture in you mind a MOBO that has been interconnected correctly. What goes on in this board and how is it accomplished? Just what Factors and Concepts do we need to know to work with a MOBO?