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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
Blue
Microphone
Pink
Parallel
Burgundy
PS/2-compatible keyboard
Purple
PS/2-compatible mouse
Green
Serial
Teal or Turquoise
USB
Black
SCSI, network, telephone, modem
None
This concludes Chapter 2. The next chapter covers the BIOS.