whats an I/O Sheid and what does it do

[lapdog]

Thank you

 

[ericd]

The I/O shield is the part of the case that surrounds the mouse/keyboard ports, serial ports, parrallel port, usb ports, and posibly others....hence the reason for different ones. Different motherboards sometimes have these ports in different arrangments or with different feature sets. Some have built in sound, some don't. The same goes for ethernet etc...

If you want to see some of the possibilites available for I/O shields you can look here. Most often you will encounter the I/O-103, the Intel Universal.

 

[Tschaft]

I had that problem when i bought a new asus, my dell case had it in a different spot...but i just took it off, havent had any interference...that i know of.