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Choose the best installation position
Identify your expansion slots
Chapter 2, Installing Your DigiSuite Hardware
7
Install your software and configure your DigiSuite system.
It's much easier to install DigiSuite components if you do so vertically
from above. For typical desktop systems, this is easy because access to the
expansion slots in such systems is from the top. If, however, you have a
tower-type system, it's best to place the computer on its side. This provides
you with vertical access to the expansion slots, as illustrated in the
following diagram:
1
Place tower on
its side
All DigiSuite cards are installed in your computer's expansion slots. Most
PCI-bus computers currently manufactured have a combination of PCI
slots and, for example, ISA slots. Usually, the PCI slots are made with a
plastic of a contrasting color (generally white) and are shorter than the ISA
slots in your system.
While some computer motherboards have numbered slots, these do not
follow any standard industry convention. For example, one computer may
have five PCI slots and two ISA, whereas another may have four PCI slots
and three ISA slots, and so on.
2
Install components
vertically
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