Matrox Electronic Systems manual Installing Matrox Meteor-II for PCI

24 Chapter 2: Hardware installation

Installing Matrox Meteor-II

Before you install your board, some precautionary measures must be taken. Turn off power to the computer and its peripherals, and drain static electricity from your body (by touching a metal part of the computer chassis). Next, follow the steps to install your board according to its form factor: PCI, CompactPCI, or PC/104-Plus.

❖If you are not using Windows NT as your operating system, your board must be installed before you install the software (either MIL or one of its derivatives). If you are adding another Matrox Meteor-II to your computer, you will have to re-install your software after installing your board.

Installing Matrox Meteor-II for PCI

Use the following steps to install your Matrox Meteor-II board for PCI:

1.Remove the cover from your computer using the instructions from your computer manual.

2.Check that you have an empty PCI (32-bit) slot that can accommodate the board. If you do not have an empty slot, remove a PCI board from your computer to make room for your Matrox Meteor-II board and take note of the slot

number you choose.

Connectors of PCI slots

or

Connectors of ISA slots