Instruction manual

AMPDIO DRIVERS
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1. Run the ‘Add Hardware Wizard’ by clicking the
START button, typing ‘hdwwiz.exe’ into the
search box and pressing the ‘Enter’ key.
2. On the ‘Welcome to the Add Hardware Wizard’
page, click ‘Next’ to continue.
3. On the ‘Add Hardware page’, to the question
‘What do you want the wizard to do?’, select
the option ‘Install the hardware that I manually
select from a list (Advanced)’, then click ‘Next’.
4. Windows shows a list of hardware categories.
Select the category ‘Amplicon Analogue/Digital
IO Counter Timer Cards’ if it exists, otherwise
select the ‘Show All Devices’ category at the
top of the list, then click ‘Next’.
5. Click ‘Have Disk...’, then on the pop-up dialog
click ‘Browse...’ to browse to the location on the
hard disk where the AMPDIO software is
installed (e.g. C:\AMPLICON\AMPDIO)
(alternatively, browse to the root directory of the
SOFTMAN CD-ROM), then click ‘OK’.
6. Select the card type you have installed from the
list, then click ‘Next’.
7. On the ‘Windows Security’ dialog with the
question ‘Would you like to install this device
software?’ click the ‘Install’ button.
8. Windows should install the driver and reach the
‘Completing the Add Hardware Wizard’ page.
On this page, click the link labelled ‘View or
change resources for this hardware
(Advanced)’ to open the ‘Add Hardware
Properties’ page.
9. On the ‘Add Hardware Properties’ page, click
the button labelled ‘Set Configuration Manually’.
10. On the ‘Add Hardware Properties’ page, untick
the ‘Use automatic settings’ option.
11. If the settings match the base address and IRQ
set on the card’s DIP switches and jumpers,
then click ‘OK’, then ‘Finish’, then reboot the
computer. If the settings do not match then
carry on with the following:
12. In the ‘Settings based on’ drop-down list, select ‘Basic Configuration 0001’ (or select ‘Basic
Configuration 0002’ if the card’s IRQ jumper has been removed).
13. In the ‘Resource settings’ list, select the resource you wish to change (I/O range or IRQ), click
the ‘Change Setting...’ button, type in the correct value (the up and down buttons will not work
properly) and click ‘OK’. When entering the I/O range as a single number (e.g. 300), Windows
will pop up a dialog box offering to correct the setting to a range (e.g. 0300-031F). Click ‘Yes’
to correct the I/O range if necessary. For the IRQ setting, type in the IRQ as a single number,