External Connector Color Coding
Many connectors now use standard colors as shown in the table below.
Connector
Color
Audio line-in Light blue
Audio line-out Lime
Digital monitor/flat panel White
IEEE 1394 Grey
Microphone Pink
MIDI/game Gold
Parallel Burgundy
PS/2-compatible keyboard Purple
PS/2-compatible mouse Green
Serial Teal or Turquoise
Speaker out/subwoofer Orange
Right-to-left speaker Brown
USB Black
Video out Yellow
SCSI, network, telephone, modem None
This concludes Chapter 2. The next chapter covers the BIOS.
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