Installing Adapter Cards; Connecting Card Cables - IBM Aptiva Handbook

Installing adapter cards

To install an adapter card, you must position the system
unit for access to the riser card:
1.
Rest your system on a sturdy, flat surface. Turn the
system unit on its side so that the system board
faces you. To ensure that the system unit lays flat,
make sure the base (bottom) of the system unit
hangs over the edge of your work surface as
shown in the illustration.
2.
Remove the adapter card slot cover screw. Then
remove the slot cover.
Adapter Card
Slot Cover
(Front)
Adapter
Card Slots
Adapter
Card

Connecting card cables

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If you have not already done so, connect the cable or
cables from the adapter card to the correct connection
on the system board or CD-ROM drive. Verify your
connections using the information in "Identifying card
cable connectors" on page 103.
If you had to disconnect any cables to gain access to the
adapter card connector on the riser card or to gain
Working with the hardware in the minitower system unit
3.
Align and insert the adapter card into the adapter
card connector. Insert the screw.
Adapter
Card
(Front)
4.
Reinstall all hardware and screws you removed to
install the adapter card.
Adapter Card
Connector
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