Off Into The Computer - TerraTec TValue Radio Handbook

Off into the Computer ... the Installation of the Card.
We now come to the installation of the hardware. Please first take a little time to read through
the complete paragraph once at your leisure before proceeding, step by step
1. Turn off your computer and all attached peripherals such as the printer and monitor. Leave
the power cable connected for the time being, so that your computer is grounded.
2. Touch the metal plate on the back of your system, to ground yourself and to free static
electricity. Then remove the power cable.
3. Remove the housing of your PC.
4. Look for a free PCI expansion slot. Please observe the following when choosing the expan-
sion slot: If possible, TV-cards should not be inserted into a PCI expansion slot that is
connected to an AGP- graphics card (usually the first PCI expansion slot), because this is
always allocated to the same Interrupt (IRQ) as the AGP-expansion slot, too. Otherwise,
both cards would lie on one interrupt, which can lead to system crashes or loss of per-
formance in practice! The numbering of the PCI expansion slots (PCI-Slots) should be de-
scribed in the manual of your main board. If you have more than 4 PCI slots, please make
sure that you use a so-called "master" slot. You should be able to refer the documentation
of your main board for the necessary information.
5. Now carefully take the card out of the packing and hold it with one hand on the edges,
while keeping the other hand resting on the metal surface of the PC if possible. This en-
sures that the electrostatic charge of your body completely flows onto the computer thus
preventing your TV card from being damaged.
6. Align the rear mounting of the TV card with the expansion slot so that the connection strip
of your card is exactly above the base of the expansion slot (see the following illustration).
7. Carefully put the TV card into the expansion slot. When doing this, make absolutely sure
that you create a good and complete contact.
8. Fasten the TV card with a suitable screw.
9. If you have a sound card, it is practical to connect the line-in of the sound card with the
audio output of the TV card. Firstly, you only then need one loudspeaker set for your PC
and secondly, you can capture both sound and image at the same time.
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