I can tell you a few things without having a picture handy. I don't want to make you sound like a novice if you are not, but I am going to tell you the basics as well. The array of white slots are the PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) slots. If there are any black slots in the same vaccinity, they are ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) slots. There is most likely a brown slot somewhere nearby those slots, this is the AGP (Advanced Graphics Port). There should be two large black chips placed somewhere on the motherboard. Those two chips make up the chipset, one being the north bridge and one being the south bridge. The various gold lines that are placed throughout the motherboard are data lines, or the system bus. The various ports in the back of the system that are part of the motherboard are just that... that various ports for the different peripherals that plug into your computer. The socket with lots of little holes in it and a little level on the side is the CPU socket. The black slots that are thin and have little handles on the sides of them are the memory slots. Any other chips placed throughout the board are probably 3rd party chips for features like RAID, or perhpaps a separate USB controller, maybe even onboard sound. The slots with the ribbon cables hooked into them are the IDE slots. The two of equal size are for harddisks, the one of smaller size is for the floppydisk drive. That is a basic rundown of the various components of any motherboard pretty much. I hope you can make out the different parts from my vague and crappy descriptions. I checked MSI's site and couldn't find your particular model, otherwise I could have been more specific. I hope it helps anyway. Good luck.
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