Chapter 5

Installing Option Cards

Option cards are accessories you can add to your computer to provide extra system capabilities. For example, you may want to install an auto-dial modem or a different display adapter card.

Your computer has six option card slots, so it can hold up to a total of six cards. The parallel and serial interface and floppy disk controller occupies one slot, and the hard disk controller occupies another slot. In addition, one slot is always occupied by the video card that operates your monitor.

Option cards are made by Epson as well as other vendors. In addition, multifunction boards allow you to add more than one feature per slot.

This chapter describes how to:

Remove and replace the computer’s cover

Install and remove an option card

Set the jumpers in your computer.

Removing the Cover

Before you install an option card in your computer, you need to remove the cover from your computer.

WARNING

Never open the case of the computer while it is plugged into an electrical outlet. Turn off the power switch on the computer and any other peripheral devices connected to it; then unplug the power cable before removing the case.

Installing OPtion Cards

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