User manual LAVA 2SP-PCI

[. . . ] Locate an unused PCI slot and insert the 2SP-PCI card into it. Ensure that it is well seated, and screw the metal bracket of the board to your PC's casing. Locate an unused back panel in your PC's casing (preferably one that does not correspond to a slot) and remove the metal insert. Screw the bracket of the second serial port of the 2SP-PCI card to the casing in this location. [. . . ] external drive or parallel scanner) to the 2SP-PCI's parallel port In Windows 95/98/ME (not Windows 2000/XP) some parallel port devices require parallel ports that use standard (legacy) ISA LPT addresses (0278h or 0378h). Because the 2SP-PCI card is a fully compliant PCI device, its default address (Input/Output Range) is beyond the standard range of ISA I/O addresses. In order to connect such a peripheral to the 2SP-PCI card, the I/O address range of the card must therefore be changed manually. This section describes how this is done. Open Control Panel|System|Device Manager and find the ParallelPCI listing under Ports. Click Properties, and proceed to the Resources tab. The following screen will appear (Note: the Input/Output Range and Interrupt of your particular configuration may differ from the one below). 2. Remove the check mark from the Use Automatic Settings box. Note: In some cases Windows will give an error message to the effect that "Windows cannot modify this resource" at this point. If you are unable to access the settings for changing system resources, reboot the system in Safe Mode to make changes to resource settings. (To enter Safe Mode, press the F8 key while the system is rebooting. ) 3. Double-click on the words Input/Output Range. The following screen will appear: 4. Use the up/down arrows to scroll to one of the following range settings, or type them in manually: 0278 ­ 027F 0238 ­ 023F 0378 ­ 037F 02B8 ­ 02BF 0338 ­ 033F 5. After one of these has been entered, click OK. Windows will verify whether you would like to force this particular configuration rather than the automatic one that it had previously chosen. Verify that there are no conflicts with addresses being used by other devices already in your PC. If no conflicts are found, restart Windows. Changing the Com numbering of your 2SP-PCI ports (Windows 95/98/Me only) Unless you already have more than 4 Com Ports installed in your PC, Windows will by default configure the serial ports of the 2SP-PCI as Com 5 and Com 6. If you wish to change the assigned Com number of either of these ports (e. g. reassign Port 1 to be Com 3), please use the Lava Com Port Redirect Utility included in the "Utils\Redirect" subdirectory of your Installation Diskette. Such a reassignment may be necessary because some communications applications programs do not recognize port designations beyond Com 4. The Com Port Redirect utility will allow you to change the Com numbering of your ports without changing I/O address resources. [. . . ] If you have trouble installing the 2SP-PCI card, try seating it in a different slot. In standard installations of Windows 2000/XP, the I/O address cannot be changed to a legacy address. Some devices (like external CD writers) default to "word mode" (ie: 16-bit data transfer) for fastest performance. Such devices need to operate in "byte mode" (8-bit data transfer) to work with the 2SPPCI. [. . . ]