Patent ID: 9703745
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A motherboard for supporting a storage device, the motherboard comprising: a circuit board; a platform controller hub (PCH) mounted on the circuit board; a power circuit mounted on the circuit board; and an expansion slot mounted on the circuit board, and comprising a protrusion arranged in the expansion slot, four idle pins connected to the PCH, a plurality of power pins connected to the power circuit, a plurality of ground pins grounded, and a plurality of signal pins connected to the PCH; wherein when the storage capacity of the motherboard needs to be expanded, the storage device is inserted into the expansion slot, the PCH outputs a hard disk drive signal to the storage device through the idle pins; when the system function of the motherboard needs to be expanded, a peripheral component interconnection (PCI) device is inserted into the expansion slot, the PCH outputs a bus signal to the PCI device through the signal pins.