In this episode,
we’re going to identify how to connect our peripheral devices.
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Thank you for tuning in to more of the Hands-on PC Build.
That’s right, so well, we’ve pretty much got our build done.
But the problem is, it’s just a glorified paperweight
until we have a way to interact with it.
In this episode we’re going to identify
how to connect our peripheral devices.
Now, let’s go ahead and take a look
at a few of the components that we have on the bench.
We have, well, a couple of input devices.
You’re going to see that we have a wireless Logitech keyboard
and a wireless Logitech mouse,
this is kind of a combo.
And we’ll look a little bit more at this small little device here,
this little micro dongle
and that’s going to help us to wirelessly connect to those devices.
We also have our little small microphone, if you will,
and a headset here.
Just a headset microphone combination and we’re going to use that,
connect that to our audio jacks on the back of the computer.
And then finally, what we’re going to do is
we’re going to go ahead and connect our network connection as well.
Now, you might see that I have to the right of me
this very huge, well, monitor.
And we need to be able to see what we are doing
with the computer so that’ll give us our graphical output.
And we’re going to go ahead and we’re going to connect that.
Now, getting started, one of the first things that we wanna do
is we wanna make sure that we have the right connections
on the back of our monitor.
Now, you’ll see on this monitor
that this monitor has two video inputs.
It has an HDMI connection as well as a display port connection.
And then finally the power connection.
You want to identify for your computer
what the appropriate video connection is.
In this case we’re going to connect the HDMI port,
and again, ensuring the power connection is connected and plugged in.
So that’s got our monitor already connected.
Now, let’s go ahead and let’s travel
to the other end of our video cable
and let’s connect it to the back of our PC.
If we look at our tech cam we have the other side
of the HDMI cable right here.
And we’re just going to go ahead
and plug that right into the back of our computer
and you can see the HDMI label right there.
So that’s got, our monitor is now connected and it’s good to go.
The next thing that we wanna do is we wanna go ahead
and we wanna connect the devices that are going to allow us
to interact with the computer.
And namely that’s your keyboard and your mouse.
Now, you might have seen that when we opened up
we had this little small device.
Let’s give you a chance to see this a little bit closer.
This is actually just what’s called a micro USB dongle
and this word you can see is Logitech.
And this actually pairs up wirelessly
with both our keyboard and our mouse.
Now you can see that we’ve got a few different USB ports
and ultimately USB is backwards compatible
even with older devices, or, you know, older standards.
But the one thing that I don’t want to do
is use some of these ports that are the later generation,
which have a good fast speed on them,
for something like as simple as an input device.
And the reason I say that is
because we wanna save that type of throughput, that speed,
for things like external drives.
So I’m going to use…
right over here we can see our keyboard
and our mouse icon in the USB ports there,
and it’s just simple as plugging them in
and I’m going to plug them into the slower devices.
Because when it comes to your input devices
you don’t need a lot of speed and again throughput power,
performance if you will, out of something
as simple as a keyboard and a mouse.
Now, the next thing we’re going to do is
we’re going to connect our headphone, our headset,
that has also a microphone built into it.
And we’re going to use these two jacks.
Now, these two jacks…
let’s go ahead and take a little bit closer of a look at these here.
You might hear these are called a couple of different things;
you might hear ‘em called A finch audio jacks,
you might even hear ‘em called 3.5mm jacks.
Those are the same thing, don’t get that confused.
You might even hear ‘em called TRS jacks.
And they’re called tip ring sleeves
and if you look at the rings in ‘em you can see that they are…
they have a couple of rings at the tips of these.
So it’s color-coded, so we’re gonna put the headset itself,
which would also be your speakers out,
if you only had a single speaker.
And our microphone goes into the pink connector.
Now, if you have a seven to one or a five to one surround sound,
just pay attention to the speakers and the vendors;
they’ll have a diagram on
and a lot of times they’re going to be color-coded,
so that you’ll know exactly how to make
a one to one pairing to them on the audio jacks
on the back side of your computer.
Now, one of the last things that I wanna do is,
we wanna get our network connection up and going,
and that’s going to be important.
So, on one side of our cable…
we’re gonna go ahead
and we’ll give you a closer view on that.
We’re gonna plug into our network jack,
and you can see that our network jack is right here.
And we’re just going to go ahead, plug this in,
and there we go, that’s a connection that we need.
And it’s good to go.
Now the other side of this connection,
what we wanna do is we wanna go ahead
and we wanna connect that to the port on the switch itself,
or your home access point.
You’ll typically see that you’ve got four ports on the back
and really it doesn’t matter which port you connect it to;
don’t connect it to the internet port.
Connect it to the one through four port
on the back of the wireless access point.
And when you do that,
that is how you connect your peripheral devices.
In this episode we showed you
how to identify the locations
that you connect these peripheral devices.
Now keep in mind that it could vary slightly,
‘coz the back planes on these,
or the back panels on these computers,
they definitely vary greatly.
Just pay attention to the specifications of your PC build,
so that when you decide to connect those peripheral devices,
you’ll be ready to power it on and get to work.
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