PIGGYBACK BOARDS

Daughter board

Also known as piggyback boards, daughter boards capability. Today, these are expansion boards that commonly connect directly to the motherboard and give the computer an added feature such as modemtypes of boards are not found or used in desktop computers and have been replaced with ISA or PCI boards. However, many laptops use these types of boards.

To disable these boards it is required that the user physically remove it from the motherboard.

ISA Short for Industry Standard Architecture, ISA is a standard of computer bus. Below is a graphic of what an ISA expansion card may look like as well as the slot it connects into on the motherboard. PCI Short for Peripheral Component Interconnect, PCI was originally developed by Intel as an expansion to the ISA bus. Below is a graphic illustration of the PCI slot on a motherboard.