Installing the cards and double checking everything is all that's needed before you can turn the computer on for the first time.
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Locate your video card, it's the one with a blue connector on the back and looks like the picture below. Since video cards use more resources and power of all the other cards in your computer, they have their own special slot closer to the processor. Typically this slot is brown in color and is slightly offset from the other PCI slots.
The slot you'll be inserting the video card into is called an AGP slot. The process for inserting this card is the same as all the other cards aside from the fact that it goes in a different kind of slot. Simply place the card over the AGP slot on the motherboard and settle it in slowly. There are different kinds of AGP slots so make sure that your video card fits in this kind. If your motherboard and video card are fairly recent, then you should have no problems with this. If your card lines up but doesn't seem to fit, then double check to see if the notches in the card line up with the ones on the motherboard. If they don't, then it looks like you may have to return your video card for one that is compatible with your motherboard.
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Make sure the card is seated well in the slot by pushing down on the edge of it along its length. It should feel secure in there, and the back end of the card should be lined up with the empty slot on the back of the computer.
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After installing the video/display card, you may install the other expansion cards that you wished to install. Among them are LAN card, modem and the like, which are most likely installed in PCI slots. The procedures are the same with the installation of video/display card.
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