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Installing the various Cards
1. Plugging in the Graphics Card The first card you'll want to place is the video card. Locate the AGP slot it is usually brown in color, remove any slot covers from the case, and gently insert the card into the slot, pushing evenly from both sides, ensure that the ports from which various peripherals connect is to the outer side of the case and the ports are out of the case. Then screw the card into the slot gently. Skip this if you have purchased a motherboard with on board graphics.
This picture shows the graphics card being installed, you can see the PCI slot along side which is white in color. Now
that you have bare minimum configuration for your computer, now
its time to hold your breathe and switch on the system to show some
messages of what is going on right or wrong! What you don't want is a computer that continues to beep incessantly (which often indicates that the RAM is bad, or not seated right, or not installed), or fails to display anything on the monitor. If it beeps, listen to how it beeps, and look up what each "beep" code means in your motherboard's manual. It could be anything from the motherboard not liking your video card, the memory not being seated right in the socket, or the CPU improperly configured, along with a bunch of other less common problems. If nothing at all happened that usually means that the CPU isn't properly seated or the computer isn't plugged in, this is all rare, if you get all the things right into the place as you are told. For a little more info, check the troubleshooting article.
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Plugging in the rest of the cards Your shiny new system booted up (we hope so ), so you're ready to finish the hardware part of the installation. The next thing to do is install the rest of your peripheral cards, which could be, but aren't limited to, modems, sound cards, SCSI cards, TV cards, network cards, or any number of other things. Anyone building a computer today will certainly have a sound card, and you're likely to have a modem. Installing
the rest of the cards is quite simple, gently push them in, just
like you did for the video card, and then screw them in. On the
off chance that Windows and your motherboard (or both) don't like
the order in which you plugged the cards in, you may experience
IRQ conflicts. This isn't a big deal, all you really have to do
is move the offending card to a free slot, and see if that fixed
it. You might also want to try switching it with one of your devices
that doesn't use an IRQ. Another good trick to free up IRQs is to
use the BIOS to turn off any serial or parallel ports that you aren't
plan on using. Now that we are done with the hardware part of the computer, we install the various drives. NEXT>>Installing the various Drives.
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