Installing the Card

1. Switch off your system and all peripheral devices.

2. Touch a metal plate on your system to ground yourself and to discharge any static 

electricity, and then unplug the power cord from the wall outlet.

3. Remove the cover from your system.

4. Remove the metal plate from one unused PCI expansion slot in your system and put the 

screw aside, to be used later.

5. Align the Sound Blaster Live! card with the 

vacant PCI expansion slot. Press the card gently 

ii.  Fasten the card 

and evenly into the slot as shown in Figure 1 2. 

Do not force the audio card into 

to the slot with a 

Unused brackets

Ensure that the card is seated firmly inside the 

screw.

the slot. If it does not fit properly, 

i.  Gently press the 

gently remove it and try again.

PCI expansion slot.

audio card into 

6. Secure the card to the expansion slot with a 

the slot.

screw.

7. Replace the cover onto your system.

8. Plug the power cord back into the wall outlet, and 

switch on the system.

PCI slot

ISA slot

Figure 1 2:   Securing the audio card to the 

PCI expansion slot.

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