User manual LAVA PARALLEL-PCI

[. . . ] Locate an unused PCI slot and insert the Parallel-PCI card into it. Screw the metal bracket of the Parallel-PCI card to your PC's casing and replace the machine's cover. Connect your parallel (printer) cable to the port on the Parallel-PCI card and turn the PC on. [. . . ] external drive or parallel scanner) to the Parallel-PCI 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 Parallel-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 Parallel-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. Using Zip Drives with the Parallel-PCI NOTE: The default input/output range for the Parallel-PCI card works with Zip Drives using new Iomegaware software. The instructions "Connecting a non-printer device" given above apply to Zip Drive users using old versions of Iomegaware. For best results with Windows 2000 and XP, we recommend downloading the latest "Iomegaware" from Iomega. [. . . ] 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 Parallel-PCI. [. . . ]