Monday 23 May 2011

Removing and reinserting a peice of hardware - P5

I am going to show you how to remove and reinsert the graphics card, next is some images that will show you step by step how to do this.



First of all, you need to make sure that you have all of the safety equiptment set up, as you can see from the above image that i have already done so.

Make sure that any cables that are attached to the graphics card are removed before removing the graphics card itself.

Now you need to unscrew any screws that are holding the graphics card in place.

Now all you will have to do is pull the graphics card out, when you pull it make sure you are gentle and don't be too aggressive with it, as you would not want to damage the card. a gentle tug should do the trick.

This is picture of the graphics card away from the motherboard, now i am going to show you how to put the graphics card back in.

To put the graphics card back in you have to align the slot with the graphics card and give it a push in the center of the graphics card, and it should just pop back into place. like so:
Then you will have to re-screw the screws back into place, like so:
And then when you have done this, reinsert the VGA cable in to the back, like so:

Once this is done, stand the computer back up, turn the switches back on at the wall and turn the computer on, and the monitor should now be working as it did before, like so:


If you follow all of these steps you will successfully be able to remove and re-insert your graphics card.

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