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Nikki_S

6-29-2009 5:12 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b17f343b-54b7-4f80-b944-836f53034b54/91DFA499-2978-4960-A167-A681080C1DE1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Motherboard&oldid=298271698" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Motherboard&oldid=298271698" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Motherboard&oldid=298271698"><P>A <B>motherboard</B> is the central <A title="Printed circuit board" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_circuit_board">printed circuit board</A> (PCB) in some complex electronic systems, such as modern <A title="Personal computer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer">personal computers</A>. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the <B>mainboard</B>, <B>system board</B>, or, on <A title="Apple Inc." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.">Apple</A> computers, the <A title="Logic board" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_board">logic board</A>.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Engadget_0-0"><A href="#cite_note-Engadget-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> It is also sometimes casually shortened to <B>mobo</B>.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Webopedia_1-0"><A href="#cite_note-Webopedia-1"><SPAN>[</SPAN>2<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Motherboard&oldid=298271698">Motherboards contain some non-volatile memory to initialize the system and load an <A title="Operating system" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system">operating system</A> from some external peripheral device.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/91DFA499-2978-4960-A167-A681080C1DE1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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