Connecting Peripheral Devices

The connectors on your computer enable you to attach peripheral devices to the computer (Figure 12).

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.

TV-Out

PC Card compartment

Headphone jack

External-mic jack

Line-in jack

PS/2™ mouse & keyboard port

LAN port

Parallel port

Docking

Video port Serial port

USB port

 

 

connector

 

 

Figure 12. Peripheral Connectors

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