User Guide

Chapter 3 Check What You've Achieved
3.1 Connect The External Peripherals
Having spent so much effort, do you feel confident to DIY your computer? Now, let's take a
look at the connectors at the back of your system and know their names, purposes and positions.
Motherboard with built-in VGA and
network card
Multimedia speaker jack
Joystick or MIDI-device
connector
External sound input
Microphone jack
Power supply connecto
r
Monitor connector
PS/2
keyboard connecto
r
COM1
PS/2
mouse
connecto
r
Ethernet networ
k
connector (RJ-45)
USB connecto
r
To Phone (RJ-11)
To Line (RJ-11)
Ethernet network Connecto
r
(
RJ-45
)
To Phone (RJ-11)
To Line (RJ-11)
Monitor connector
COM2
Motherboard without built-in VGA and
network cards
3-1
Check What You've Achieved
Do all back panels look the same?
Different modules may have slight difference in thei
r
positions of back panel connectors. Compared to the
above pictures, you can easily tell their differences.