Setting Up Your Modem 2-1
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Setting Up Your Modem
This chapter guides you through the process of installing your modem. It is organized as
follows:
❑
❑
Connecting to Telephone Line and Telephone
Installing the
Modem
1. Turn off your computer 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 your computer casing.
4. Remove the metal casing from an unused slot as
shown in . Put the screw aside for use later.
Turn off the main power supply
and disconnect your computer’s
power cord. Systems using an
ATX power supply unit with soft
power off may still be powering
the PCI slot. This can damage
your modem card when it is
inserted into the slot.
Figure 2-1: Removing a metal plate.
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