How to Install a Video Card

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Installing a video card into your personal computer is a fairly simple and easy task that can be accomplished by just about anybody. To get started there are a number of tools that you will need to install a video card into your personal computer. You will need a Phillips head screw driver, the video card itself, and the driver disk that came with the video card.

The first step in this process is to turn off your computer. To do this, click start on the taskbar and select the turn off computer selection. Then a window will appear and from this screen you will select shut down. After the computer is completely shut down then you should turn the computer all the way off by flipping the power switch on the back, some computers don’t have a power switch on the back so if you don’t see one then don’t worry about it. Once you have flipped the power switch you unplug all of the wires and connections to the back of the computer, some of the wires may require you to unscrew them but they can be easily unscrewed by hand.

After all of the wires and connections and unplugged and the computer is completely turned off you may proceed to take off the side of the case. To take the side of the case off you will need one simple tool, a Phillips head screw driver. Once you have the screw driver in hand proceed to place the computer on its side to remove the outside of the case. To remove the outside of the case, remove the two screws at the back. Once you have removed the two screws the side of the case should slide right off, if it doesn’t there might be a couple more screws. Some of the newer computers have a button that you push and the side of the case slides off backwards. When the side is removed you can proceed to the next step....

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...sk, if for some reason it doesn’t then you have to start the program manually. To do this you simply click start, my computer, and double click the cd rom drive. After the program is loaded up off the disk there will be a list of instructions that will appear on the screen in front of you. Just follow the instructions to install the drivers for your video card. Once the drivers are installed you have to restart your computer in order for the drivers to take affect.

To restart your computer you must do the same thing that you had to do to shut down the computer except you will choose the restart computer option instead of the shut down computer option. Once the computer is done restarting your video card should be properly installed in your computer and now you have the added features of a new video card and the satisfaction of installing a computer part yourself.

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