1-2 Knowing and Installing Your Card
Installing the Card
and Related
Peripherals
1. Switch off your system and all peripheral
devices.
2. Touch a metal plate on your system to
ground yourself and to discharge any static
electricity, and then unplug the power cord
from the wall outlet.
3. Remove the cover from your system.
4. Remove the metal plate from an unused
PCI expansion slot in your system and put
the screw aside, to be used later.
5. Align the audio card with the vacant PCI
expansion slot. Press the card gently and
evenly into the slot as shown. Ensure that
the card sits firmly inside the PCI
expansion slot.
Do not force the audio card into
the slot. If it does not fit properly,
gently remove it and try again
.
6. Secure the card to the expansion slot with
a screw.
7. See Figure 1-3 to learn how to connect
various devices to your card.
The joystick connector on your
audio card is identical to that on a
standard PC game control adapter
or the game I/O connector. You
can connect any analog joystick
with a 15-pin D-shell connector
or any device compatible with the
standard PC joystick. To use two
joysticks, you need a Y-cable
splitter
.
8. Replace the cover onto your system.
9. Plug the power cord back into the wall
outlet, and switch on the system.
Unused brackets
ii. Fasten the card to the slot
with a screw.
i. Gently press the
audio card into
the slot.
PCI slot
ISA slot
Figure 1-2: Securing the audio card to the
PCI expansion slot.
