Creative Sound Blaster PCI User Manual 7
Installing Hardware
Step 1: 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 bracket from an unused PCI slot as shown in Figure 3. 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 audio card when it is
inserted into the slot.
Remove any existing audio card
or disable the onboard audio.
Figure 3: Removing a metal plate.
PCI slot
ISA slot