I took all the components out of my computer except a DVD &CD drive/bay I left for another day. I thought I understood onboard graphics meant actually in the makeup of the MB or is it referring to the available slots. In my slots, I think they were the AGP slots my cards are like thin plates.
I had a Graphics card, modem card, sound card, and I think it was a speaker card not in a slot connected to the MB with a short IDE cable. I say speaker because of the ports. It took me about 1 1/2 hrs to get what I did get out. The only surprise to me was the cluster of tiny red, white, and blue wires that led out from the on/of unit. With the tiny single pin connectors and the big gray wire from the front USB ports with 2pin connectors. Made a point of keeping track of everything so I could reassemble at some point. It wasn't as bad as I thought.

Does the MB come loaded with the various ports or are those added separately?

At first I thought the MB was just a transfer station that just served to transfer power to the other units and didn't support or retain information. But I think the presence of the BIOS, and Chipset and on board graphics puts a hole in that idea if I am understanding things correctly. And if not, someone please enlighten me.

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