Step 4: Install The Sound Blaster Audigy And Audigy Extension Cards - Creative Platinum eX User Manual

Step 4: Install the
Sound Blaster
Audigy and Audigy
Extension cards
Do not force the audio card into the
slot. Make sure that the gold finger
PCI connector on the Sound Blaster
Audigy card is aligned with the PCI
bus connector on the motherboard
before you insert the card into the
PCI expansion slot.
If it does not fit properly, gently
.
remove it and try again
1. Align the Sound Blaster Audigy card with the PCI slot and
press the card gently but firmly into the slot as shown in
Figure 2-4.
2. Align the Audigy Extension card with an adjacent free slot.
3. Secure the Audigy Extension card with one of the screws
you had placed aside earlier as shown in Figure 2-5.
4. Secure the Sound Blaster Audigy card with the other screw.
5. Connect the power splitter cable from the Audigy Extension
card to the system power supply unit.
2
Unused brackets
1
Figure 2-4: Aligning the cards against the slots.
4
3
Fasten the cards and
brackets with screws.
Figure 2-5: Securing the cards to the slots.
Installing Hardware 2-5
PCI slot
ISA slot