Specifications

Installing Hardware 1-6
Step 2: Install the
Sound Blaster
Audigy card
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 1-5.
2. Secure the card with the screw you had placed aside earlier.
3. For Sound Blaster Audigy (SB1394) card users, secure the Joystick/MIDI bracket
to the slot next to the Sound Blaster Audigy (SB1394) card with the second
screw.
Connect the Joystick/MIDI cable to the Joystick/MIDI connector on the Sound
Blaster Audigy (SB1394) card as shown in Figure 1-5.
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
.
Unused
brackets
Joystick/MIDI
bracket
Figure 1-5: Securing the audio card to the expansion slot.
Fasten the
card and
bracket with
screws.
Unused
brackets
Fasten the
card with a
screw.
Sound Blaster
Audigy (SB1394)
Sound Blaster
Audigy (non-
SB1394)