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Setting up your basic computer input/out devices

This tutorial will show you how setup or connect your basic computer components such as monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, headphone, scanner, printer, camera, joystick, etc. It assumes that you have running system.

What are Input devices?

Input devices are components that you use to feed information to the computer system. Input devices are hardware items such as; Keyboard, Mouse, Scanner, Microphone, Trackballs, Joysticks, Digitizer, etc.
Output devices are components that retrieve information from the computer. Output devices are hardware items such as; Monitors Printers, Speakers, Terminals, Facsimile, etc.

Setting up and connecting the input output devices

Setting up and connecting your computer system input and output devices is very easy. All recently manufactured computers use color code which makes even easier to setup. The color of the port matches with the color of the device connector. Also, usually there is an icon of the device beside the device port. Refer to the picture on the left to see how the color coding work and how to connect all the computer devices.
Steps to connect your computer;
1. Connect your power cord to the wall jack and to your computer
2. Connect the monitor to the monitor serial port as the picture shows
3. Connect your mouse and keyboard to the ports as the picture shows
4. Connect your speakers jack to middle line (normally green color). Connect your speaker power code
5. Connect all your USP devices. There are list of devices come with USB connection including I/O devices, Digital Imaging devices, printers, mobile phones, USB-to-Serial & vice versa, etc.
6. Connect your network card to the PC and to the router
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