Step 4: Install The Sound Blaster Audigy And Audigy Extension Cards - Creative Audigy Platinum eX Getting Started 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
PCI
slot
ISA slot
2-3