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I/O Connectors
Dell™ PowerEdge™ 850 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
I/O Connectors
Serial Connector
PS/2-Compatible Keyboard and Mouse Connectors
Video Connector
USB Connector
Integrated NIC Connector
Embedded Remote Access Ethernet Connector
Network Cable Requirements
I/O Connectors
I/O connectors are the gateways that the system uses to communicate with external devices, such as a keyboard, mouse, printer, or monitor. This section
describes the various connectors on your system. If you reconfigure the hardware connected to the system, you may also need the pin number and signal
information for these connectors.
Figure B -1 and Figure B -2 illustrate the connectors on the system front and back panels.
Figure B-1. Front-Panel I/O Connectors
Figure B-2. Back-Panel I/O Connectors
Table B -1 shows the icons used to label the connectors on the system.
Table B-1. I/O Connector Icons
Serial Connector
Serial connectors support devices such as external modems, printers, and mice that require serial data transmission. The serial connector uses a 9-pin D-
subminiature connector.
Serial Connector Autoconfiguration
Icon Connector
Serial connector
Mouse connector
Keyboard connector
Video connector
USB connector
NIC connector