All About Motherboards (10 points) Please answer the following 6 questions. Click on Submit Assignment. Type your answers directly into the box provided. Your answers should be labeled 1 through 6, since there are 6 questions to be answered. You do not have to answer in complete sentences. One or two word answers are fine for most of the questions.

Textbook: A+ Guide to IT Technical Support, 9th Edition, 2017 Jean Andrews, Joy Dark, Jill West

1. Which small form factor is often used in low-end computers and home theater systems?

2. What type of socket is used in order to allow for an even force to be applied to the processor during installation?

3. The newest motherboards no longer have a North Bridge and a South Bridge. Please explain what major change is happening with the processor to cause this.

4. On page 101 Figure 3 - 29 of your textbook, what Windows utility is used to produce this information?

5. Use the information on page 101 Figure 3 - 29 to research more about the system on page 101 and answer the following questions about this particular motherboard:

a. What specific socket does this motherboard use?

b. How many and exactly what type of expansion slots does this motherboard have?

c. How many and what color SATA ports does this motherboard have?

6. On page 92 your textbook introduces the concept of binary and hints at ASCII. When you type on your keyboard, you are pressing a symbol or letter (ASCII). The symbol or letter pressed is represented to the computer as a number and then that number can be easily converted to binary for the computer to process. Watch my videos on binary and do some research on ASCII.

Answer the following: 01000100 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100001

o Provide the decimal equivalent for each of the 5 numbers above.

o Provide the letters/characters for each of the 5 numbers above.