Connecting Peripheral Devices

The connectors on your computer enable you to attach peripheral devices to the computer (Figure 10).

Turn off your computer before you connect a peripheral device. Connecting a peripheral device with your computer turned on may seriously damage the device or your computer.

 

Kensington

 

Lock

 

* Modem jack

 

USB ports

 

Mic-in jack

 

Headphone jack

 

Line-in jack

Power

 

connector

 

PS/2 mouse and

 

keyboard port

 

Parallel port

 

* Docking connector

 

Video port

 

Serial port

* TV-out port (S-VHS)

 

Figure 10. Peripheral Connectors

* Optional

Table 4 shows the icons located near each connector and tells you the devices that you can attach to the connectors.

20 Connecting Peripheral Devices