Moving a sound card

[krishcanag]

Hello

I just removed my 7600GT graphics card and put in a double slot 7900GTX, now the problem is the sound card (creative X-Fi ....) sits in a PCI slot all but touching the grpahics card every where, so the air flow from the graphics will not be going anywhere except back onto itself.

Can I just remove the sound card and move it to another PCI slot away from the graphics card (extreme edge of mobo) without doing any anything or do I have to go through some kind of procedure, like remove drivers, unlpug, etc etc. If this is the case a step by step guide would be great.

thanks
krishan

[Jester]

My suggestion would be to uninstall all of the drivers first. Then move the card and let the computer find it. Then reinstall all the drivers.

[krishcanag]

thanks, I think that is what I will do.

krishan

[liambl]

You shouldn't need to uninstall the drivers if you are only moving it to a different PCI slot, I have moved expansion cards lots of times this way.