How to Remove & Install Video Cards

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm James Adams I'm with expertvillage.com and now we are going proceed to show installation removal of the a video card. Okay so now we are looking at the computer, we took out the side panel, and now if you didn't have a video card already in your system all these holes right there would be covered so with a screw driver you could either take out the screws. Sometimes it would be like a welded piece of metal that you could just pop out. When you pop the piece of metal be careful not to scratch the motherboard. Another thing to be aware is if you got a PCI or a PCI express or AGP socket the sockets are going to have a little thing like this white thing right there that make it so the video card stays in place. So if your pulling out for removal don't pull to hard because it might meant that the thing that it would click right here still connected and it might just do a lot of damage. So we are going to look on backwards are work on installation so just pretend the system had a PCI express socket. PCI express and there was no video card already in it so you basically open your video card, take it, you pick the slot where you want it, you push down on it, and it clicks. Once it clicks you just pop a screw right there. So now we are going to remove it. Since you had a screw on it you just unscrew the screw. Then remember what I said about the little white thing that makes it click and holds it in place make sure you reach for it where in AGP or PCI it would have one. So just pull it out of the way and pop it out. This is how we remove and install a video card. It is pretty easy process you just be careful make sure you don't hit any important other components on your computer. "