Creative SB0060 - Sound Blaster Live, User Manual

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1-4 Knowing and Installing Your Cards
Installing the Cards
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. Connect the Digital I/O card to the audio card using the Digital I/O cable, as shown in
Figure 1-2.
5. Remove the metal plates from two unused PCI expansion slots in your system and put the
screws aside, to be used later. If you have only one unused PCI expansion slot, then you
must have at least an unused bracket on your computer casing to accommodate the PCI-
oriented Digital I/O card.
6. Align the Sound Blaster Live! 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.
7. Secure the card to the expansion slot with a
screw.
8. Place the metal bracket of the Digital I/O card
into an unused bracket on the computer casing.
9. Secure the card to the casing with a screw.
Do not force the audio card into the
slot. If it does not fit properly,
gently remove it and try again
.
Make sure there is sufficient space
between the Digital I/O card and
the adjacent card (especially if it is
an ISA card) such that the cards do
not touch.
Figure 1-4: Securing the audio card to the
PCI expansion slot.
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
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
.
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