Installing Hardware 2-3
Step 2: Prepare your
computer
1. Turn off your computer and all peripheral devices.
2. Touch a metal plate on your computer to ground yourself
and to discharge any static electricity, and then unplug the
power cord from the wall outlet.
3. Remove the computer cover.
4. Remove the metal brackets from two adjacent unused PCI
slots as shown in Figure 2-2. Put the screws aside for use
later.
Step 3: Connect the
Sound Blaster
Audigy and Audigy
Extension cards
1. Using the AUD_EXT/Joystick cable and internal SB1394 cable, connect the cards as shown in Figure
2-3.
Remove any existing audio card
or disable the onboard audio.
For more information, see
“Problems with Multiple Audio
Devices” on page B-9.
PCI slots
Figure 2-2: Removing metal plates
ISA slots
metal brackets
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