Hello, I want to free up the PCI slots on my pc so I was wondering how I do this, do I have to unintall any drivers or anything and how do I do this or do you just open the case and just take them out and the pc just forgets about them. The card I wanted to remove was a firewire card which I've never used and put in a USB 2 card in instead. Thank You For Your Help.
It would be wise to remove all software and drivers, but you can just take a board out of the PCI slot and put another one on, assuming you have an operating system that has plug-n-play.
but disconnect the power cord 1st as some computers still have power on even when windows shuts down the computer.
*sigh* disconnect -everything- from the case, remove the card, do not delete drivers as they are most likely the XP supplied ones, buy a USB2.0+1394a combo card, install card, reconnect all cords, turn on, install drivers for combo card, enjoy.
