User manual LAVA SP-PCI

[. . . ] Before opening the casing of your computer, make sure that all power is off. Locate an unused PCI slot and insert the SP-PCI card into it. Screw the metal bracket of the SP-PCI card to your PC's casing and replace the machine's cover. [. . . ] Because the SP-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 SP-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 SP BIDIR Parallel-PCI 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 SP-PCI port (Windows 95/98/Me only) Unless you already have more than 4 Com Ports installed in your PC, Windows will by default configure the SP-PCI as Com 5. If you wish to change this assigned Com number (e. g. reassign Com 5 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. To install the Port Redirect Utility on your hard drive, insert the Installation Diskette into your floppy drive, click Start, Run and type A:\Utils\Redirect\Setup. Changing the Com numbering of your SP-PCI port (Windows 2000/XP only) In Windows 2000, Com port numbering can be changed by doubleclicking the serial port entry displayed in Windows' Device Manager (as described earlier). [. . . ] 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 SP-PCI. [. . . ]