External Connector Color Coding
Many connectors now use standard colors as shown in the table below.
Connector
Color
Analog VGA
Blue
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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