Instruction manual

AMPDIO DRIVERS
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2.3.1.1 PCI Card
For a PCI card, Windows will detect the new hardware automatically and attempt to install the
drivers without user interraction. Unless the AMPDIO drivers have been previously installed (or
pre-installed as a Windows driver package), this is likely to install the device as a non-working
device of type ‘PCI Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Controller’ in the ‘Other devices’
section of Windows Device Manager.
The recommended way to install the driver is as a Windows driver package as described in section
2.3. An alternative method is to update the initially installed, non-working device in Windows Device
Manager, using the unpacked driver files. These can be found on the SOFTMAN CD-ROM and
may also be found in the directory on the hard disk where the AMPDIO software was installed (e.g.
C:\AMPLICON\AMPDIO) if the ‘AMPDIO Device Driver’ component was selected in the AMPDIO
Setup Wizard.
To update the driver for the initially installed, non-working PCI card, do the following:
1. Go to the Control Panel by clicking START > Control
Panel. Find and open the Windows Device Manager, for
example by selecting ‘View by: Category’, clicking on
‘Hardware and Sound’, then on ‘Device Manager’.
2. In Device Manager, find the initially installed, non-
working PCI card in the ‘Other devices’ category. It will
probably be listed as a ‘PCI Data Acquisition and Signal
Processing Controller’, but might be listed as an
unknown device.
3. Assuming the device is an Amplicon PCI ADIO card,
right-click on the device and select the ‘Update Driver
Software...’ option.
4. On the page that says ‘How do you want to search for
driver software?’, click the option ‘Browse my computer
for driver software’.
5. On the page that says ‘Browse for
driver software on your computer’, click
the ‘Browse...’ button and browse to
the location of the AMPDIO driver files
on the hard disk or SOFTMAN CD
(look for the file AMPDIO.INF). Then
click the ‘Next’ button.
6. On the ‘Windows Security’ dialog with
the question ‘Would you like to install
this device software?’ click the ‘Install’
button.
7. Windows should install the device driver software and show the message ‘The software for this
device has been successfully installed’. Click the ‘Close’ button.
2.3.1.2 ISA Card
It is recommended to install the Windows driver package first, as described in section 2.3.
To install an ISA card in Windows 7, do the following: