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BIOS chip: We discuss BIOS chips in greater detail later in this chapter.

Chipset: Every motherboard has a number of integrated circuits (chips or ICs) permanently installed on different parts of the board. Each chip has a separate function. It is most common for these chips to all be from a single manufacturer. You might see ASUS? brand motherboards, for example, with chipsets from Intel? or Via. Some companies such as Intel make their own motherboards in addition to chipsets for competitors’ products. Manufacturers such as these virtually always use their own chipsets in their motherboards.

AGP slot: All motherboards made in the last several years that don’t have built-in video, and some that do, have an accelerated graphics port (AGP) slot. This is the slot for a video adapter. OBR 3.3 shows an AGP slot. See Chapter 8, “Video, Zvuk, Modemy, a síťové adaptéry,” for more information on video adapters.

Figure 3.3: AGP video slot.

DVO connector: Some motherboards have header connectors for digital video adapters. The connectors are called DVO and the adapters are called DVI. OBR 3.4 shows a DVO connector.

Figure 3.4: DVO video header connector.

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