merry christmas to all you harmy board computer pros. Add a God Bless for good measure. Would someone give me a simple defination of motherboard and hard drive.? Difference? Friend said she fried her motherboard. Been Googling trying to understand difference between the two. 2 1/2 years and still trying to learn simple things. Thanks guys. -- The HarmyBoard HarmDrive

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Date Posted: 11:01:36 12/17/08 Wed
Author: Linda R
Subject: merry christmas to all you harmy board computer pros. Add a God Bless for good measure. Would someone give me a simple defination of motherboard and hard drive.? Difference? Friend said she fried her motherboard. Been Googling trying to understand difference between the two. 2 1/2 years and still trying to learn simple things. Thanks guys.

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[> The motherboard is like the brains of the computer. Although, you could argue that the processor is the brain. The hard drive is just where stuff is stored. Everything (hard drive, processor, etc.) is connected to the motherboard. Maybe the motherboard is more like the backbone? -- JAG Junkie (Ronda)--I know what it all is, it's hard to explain., 05:05:57 12/18/08 Thu [1]

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[> Motherboard is where things get plugged in for the computer to work (sound, video, processor, modem,etc.) -- rmhlrkr - the hard drive is where you store all your fanfiction along with programs and data, 12:17:16 12/30/08 Tue [1]

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[> A little late, but here's some more.... if your "motherboard" crashes, you don't (usually) lose your data. If your hard drive crashes - you're outta luck. Inside for even geekier stuff... -- The Chief (by far the least of the geeks here, so if Judi wants to clarify anything I say, feel free!), 12:40:43 01/13/09 Tue [1]

When you buy a computer, you'll see to different "gigabyte" listings: one for hard drive (usually the bigger number) that represents storage space; the other for the processor (CPU) which represents how fast the computer can "work", or the more stuff it can do at one time. You can have a big hard drive that works slowly (not a good thing unless you're talking about a long weekend on a private island with Harm...), or a small hard drive with a very speedy processor. The faster the processor, the more quickly it can handle a larger quantity of material in a bigger hard drive.

I don't know what the average numbers are these days but I think our hard drive is 40 Gig and our CPU is 8 Gig, and it's quite nimble, altho we could use more storage space for pics and stuff.

Also there's a difference between Hard Drive memory and RAM. When you call something up from your hard drive, the RAM stores it in "temporary" memory, so that it can be accessed easily and quickly. The more RAM you have, the more things your computer can access quickly. It's kind of like the computer's "work space" or desktop. When you turn off your computer, you clear out the RAM (usually). All those web pages you've looked at, every e-mail you open, all that stuff stays in the RAM.

Does any of that help???

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[> [> Who are you calling a geek? LOL -- JAG Junkie (Ronda), 17:16:33 01/13/09 Tue [1]

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