@Dashrender said in An Overview of Motherboard Types - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer:

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@scottalanmiller said in An Overview of Motherboard Types - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer:

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@mary said in An Overview of Motherboard Types - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer:

Are there more issues with heat with the smaller boards? Also what are the expansion slots used for?

Definitely, way more of an issue. It's what keeps boards so often so big.

Not really. Heat issues are almost exclusively related to the CPU and GPU any more. Memory just a little. Almost no other component gets hot.

So heat dissipation is needed for those 3 things. That has little to do with the board size.

The smaller the board, though, the less capacity for cooling.

That is not the board. The board does not cool those devices. Well heat radiates, so anything touching them cools it to a minor degree, but that does not affect anything to any degree that matters.

Most memory run cool enough that direct air over the chips suffices.

CPU and GPU need a heatsink and sometimes a fan to push air over the heatsink.

Frequently small mobos also mean small cases, these small cases can run into issues of lack of airflow... but really, the issue isn't the size of the mobo, but other things.

Mostly, yes. Although you have less board space for cooling, too. Giant server boards have room for front to back high volume airflow, for example.

Again, the board has zero to do with it. The case has everything to do with it. Granted, typically, small boards equal small cases, but this is in no way a requirement.

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@connorsoliver I was wondering the same thing. I know we can download equivalents on our phones, but didn't think it was an option on the BIOS.

@mary said in BIOS Configurations - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer:

If your graphics card was failing would that show up in the diagnostics as well? This will be a great tool if you suspect hardware failure. As to the fake BIOS, if you make changes in the virtual environment will it show you a reflection of those changes?

Depends on the diagnostics. As external hardware, diagnostics of it tend to be more limited.

@Pete-S said in BIOS and UEFI - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer:

@travisdh1 said in BIOS and UEFI - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer:

@Pete-S How long did you spend holding UV lights over those chips? Me = many hours, way to long.

Haha, spent a lot of time doing that. But I had an UV eraser which basically meant you could put it in and walk away.

I spend enough time doing it so I could immediately tell that the EPROM I posted a pic of above, is made by Texas Instruments (from the logo) and it's 256 kbit (from 27C256) so 32 kilobyte memory.

I am just about to add the first RAID video, I want to watch it all first and see what all it has.

I think that he skips mentioning that PPP, the Point to Point Protocol is not a VPN protocol. Even in the 1990s it was not considered that as it is not virtually private, as a VPN is. It's useful to have mentioned here and the Network+ might require it and it is certainly good to know and understand, but he lists it along with VPN protocols and I didn't hear him ever point out that it isn't a VPN Protocol even though it was the first one mentioned in the VPN Protocol list.

I'll try to keep updating the list. Want to have a good place to ask questions or have discussions on each individual topic.