Article: Doing the Sound-Card Shuffle, Step by Step.(Aureal's Vortex2 sound card)(Product Support)

Like many older sound cards, the Sound Blaster we replaced is an ISA card. The new Vortex2 card, on the other hand, uses the PCI bus. Unscrew your present sound card's support brace from the system's backplane and carefully lift the card out of its slot. Now unscrew a backplane cover from an available PCI slot and move the cover over to the now-vacant ISA slot-without a card installed in this slot, you need the cover to help prevent dirt and dust from getting inside the case. Slide the new card into the PCI slot, being careful not to hit the motherboard with its support brace or scrape it against any adjacent cards. Align the hole in the card's support brace with the hole ...

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