Question

You work at a computer repair store. A customer wants you to install a new sound card into his computer to run his home theater system. Currently, the computer uses the sound card built into the motherboard. You need to upgrade the computer with a better sound card that installs into an expansion card slot. Your task is to complete the following:

a. Install the sound card with the optical output.
b. View the Details for each card to identify the card with an optical audio connector.
c. Boot into the BIOS and disable the onboard sound card.
d. Boot into Windows and verify that the new sound card is recognized and the onboard sound card does not appear in Device Manager.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

The following tasks are needed to complete the installation of the sound card so that it is fully usable.

a. and b. : First, you need to slot the sound card into a pci-e slot in the motherboard and connect the optical cable to the back of the sound card. You can look at the back of the card or the box to see if it has an optical audio connector slot.

c. Next you can boot into the Bios to disable the onboard sound card. Each motherboard is different but the usual way of entering the bios is pressing F12 when turning on the PC. Then navigate to the motherboard options tab/menu and turn off the onboard sound.

d. Finally, turn on the PC, log in and at the bottom left search bar type in Device Manager. Next navigate to sound, video and game controllers and make sure the new sound card is being detected.