Parts of a motherboard. Page 2

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Whithin these three connectors, the one shorter up is for the floppy disk flat cable connector,...
... the one at the center (black) is for the second flat cable (IDE2) to connect hard disks, CD's or DVD's, and the one down (blue) is for the first cable (IDE1) to connect disks. (each flat cable can handle two devices, one as master and the other as slave). motherboard4821.JPG
This motherboard is equipped with internal modem, and this is the place to plug its connector (right). And now, going to the upper part of the motherboard, ...
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... and looking from the rear, from right to left, here we find the three audio connectors (this motherboard does not need an additional audio board) ...
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... the joystick connector (15 pins) ...
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... over, the parallel port ...
... connector of 25 pins (pink) for printer connection, and down COM1 (left) and COM2 (right), the serial ports (where one can plug external modems and other devices) motherboard4822.JPG
These are the two USB connectors (all external devices are nowadays equipped with this kind of connection)
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and, last, these are the connectors for the keyboard (up) and mouse (down)
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