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Installing Hardware 2-2
Installing Hardware
Installation Steps
Step 1: Prepare your
computer
1. Turn off your computer 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 your computer casing.
4. Remove the metal bracket from an unused PCI slot as shown in Figure 2-1. Put the screw aside for
use later.
Turn off the main power
supply and disconnect
your computer’s power
cord. Systems using an
ATX power supply unit
with soft power off may
still be powering the PCI
slot. This can damage
your modem card when
it is inserted into the slot.
Figure 2-1: Removing a metal bracket.
PCI slot
ISA slot
metal bracket