Installing Option Cards; Removing The Cover - Epson Apex 20020, 20040 User Manual

Chapter 5

Installing Option Cards

Option cards are accessories you can add to your computer to
provide extra system capabilities. For example, you may want to
install an auto-dial modem or a different display adapter card.
Your computer has six option card slots, so it can hold up to a
total of six cards. The parallel and serial interface and floppy
disk controller occupies one slot, and the hard disk controller
occupies another slot. In addition, one slot is always occupied
by the video card that operates your monitor.
Option cards are made by Epson as well as other vendors. In
addition, multifunction boards allow you to add more than one
feature per slot.
This chapter describes how to:
Remove and replace the computer's cover
Install and remove an option card
Set the jumpers in your computer.

Removing the Cover

Before you install an option card in your computer, you need to
remove the cover from your computer.
WARNING
Never open the
an electrical outlet.
computer and any other peripheral devices connected to it;
then unplug
case
of the computer while it is plugged into
Turn
off the power switch on the
power cable before removing the case.
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