PC Card CD ReWritable Installation Manual CRW-740
EXP COMPUTER, INC. TABLE OF CONTENTS EXP MEMORY PRODUCTS. NON-TRANSFERABLE LIMITED WARRANTY EXP COMPUTER INC., AND EXP MEMORY PRODUCTS ("EXP") warrants that the Disk Traveler (“products”) manufactured or distributed by EXP to be free from failures due to defects in materials or workmanship for a full one year from the date of purchase of the products.
INTRODUCTION The CD ReWriter is a portable CD-ROM drive, which consists of a lowpower CD rewritable drive, a small 26 pin universal connector, a cable for Parallel port (printer port),. It is compatible with either computer’s Parallel Port or PC CARD (PCMCIA) 2.1 Type II or I slot. The CD Rewriter can write to CD-R (write-once) or CD-RW (rewritable) disk and read other variety of CD formats. The drive required an external power supply adapter (included).
PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS REAR PANEL FRONT PANEL 1. Power Button: The front panel of your CD Rewriter may look slightly different from the figure shown below. The important parts and functions, however, are the same regardless their locations. 1. Eject button: Press this button to eject the tray. 2. Access LED: This LED will blink when the drive is accessing the disc. 3. Emergency Hole: Press the button to manually power on/off the drive. 2. DC in Jack: This jack connects to the AC adapter. 3.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98 INSTALLATION The installation procedures have two sections for each type of interface. 1. Parallel Port interface 2. PC Card (PCMCIA) interface Check all the connection as states in the “Hardware Installation” section. From the Desktop Click ‘My Computer’ icon, ‘Control Panel’ and then ‘Add New Hardware’ 1. Click "Next>" to begin. The procedure includes hardware and software installation. Just follow along the interface of your choice.
3. Open "SCSI controllers". Click "Have Disk...". VERIFY YOUR INSTALLATION From “desk top” click on “my computer” icon. There should be addition CD-ROM drive’s icon displayed. 4. Insert Installation Diskette into the drive selected, then click "OK". If you're installing from a directory containing downloaded installation files, specify the full path of the directory and click "OK". 5. Select "P.H.T. Parallel-Port Trans-Series Win95/98 Driver", and click "Next>". 6. Click "Finish" to complete installation.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 In Windows NT 4.0, you may select “Control Panel” under “Settings” from the “Start” menu to open the “Control Panel” folder, double click the “SCSI Adapter” icon) Click “Drivers” tab, and a figure illustrated as below will be displayed. Click “Add” button, and click “Have Disk...” button. Windows NT will then prompt you to insert the manufacturer installation disk. Insert the device driver disk into your floppy drive.
INSTALLATION FOR PCMCIA INTERFACE HARDWARE INSTALLATION If install on a NT station, make sure you turn OFF all power to your system before connecting the CD ReWriter to your computer. However, you are allowed to install the CD with power while using Windows 95/98, because OS support plug-and-play. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98 The “New Hardware Found” dialog box* will appear when you insert the CD ReWriter card under Windows 95 for the very first time. 1.
For user with a newer revision of Windows 95 od Windows 98, “Update Device Driver Wizard” box * will appear. Click on “Next” button, let Windows 95 search for driver. Make sure to insert the CD device driver diskette into your floppy drive. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 PC CARD Interface Currently there is no Plug and Play support for PC Card (PCMCIA) on the Windows NT 4.0.
Install from disk dialog box will prompt for device driver diskette. Either using “Browse” button or type in the path A:\winnt the click OK to finishing the installation. INSTALLING THE APPLICATION SOFTWARE From “Start” go to “Setting”, “ Control Panel” then “Add/Remove Program” Click on “Install” button. The installation program will search for ‘Setup.exe’ program from the CD-ROM. Usually the application will start automatically.
TROUBLE SHOOTING Symptom: The EXP CD starts to become excessively slow or does not work at all. Solution: The parallel port on your machine may be able to a number of different modes, standard, Bi-directional, EPP or ECP. These different setting can effect performance of the EXP CD. In some cases, the standard setting will even shut off signals the EXP CD needs, while if the same port is set to Bi-directional or EPP produce an excellent performance.
PCMCIA INTERFACE Symptom: No “New Hardware Found” dialog box display. Solution: 1. The EXP card is NOT fully inserted. If you see the screen below, it means the PCMCIA device driver is not using 32-Bit Card Support. Follow on screen instructions by except all the default setting. At the end of the installation, you will be asked to restart the computer. The card status will show empty if Windows PCMCIA driver did not detect any card.
Symptom: No additional drive icon in “My Computer”. The EXP CD driver installed without any incident. Solution: 1. System resources for the EXP CD are not available. Click on “Start”, “Settings”, “Control Panel” from the “Control Panel” folder Click on “System” then “Device Manager” The EXP entry may have a yellow circle with an exclamation point. This is an indication that the EXP CD did not working properly.
REMOVING OR RE-INSTALLING THE DRIVER PARALLEL PORT INTERFACE Go to “My Computer” icon, “Control Panel”, “System”,“ Device Manager” Click on “SCSI Controller ”. The EXP CD should be listed PCMCIA INTERFACE If you need to remove or reinstalling the driver, make sure the EXP CD-ROM disk card is inserted. • Go to “My Computer” icon, “Control Panel”, “System”,“ Device Manager” Click on “Hard Disk Controller”. The EXP CD should be listed To remove EXP CD-ROM. • To remove EXP CD-ROM.
APPENDIX A FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
APPENDIX C Most Win95-based recording software recommend turning off Auto Insert Notification. Having this Tips on can interfere with closing sessions or even just inserting discs into the drive. You can disable it by 1. What does "buffer underrun" mean? under CD-ROM, select the device, click on the "Settings" tab, and make sure the "Auto Insert opening the "System" icon in the Control Panel, and selecting "Device Manager". For each item Notification" checkbox is unchecked.
It's also possible that you simply have a bad batch of media. Try a different type and brand of disc. There are a few of possibilities, some software and some hardware. Some distributors (e.g. dataDisc) will exchange media that's provably defective. It may be that the system is looking at the disc, not finding a TOC (table of contents), and ejecting it Be careful with Advanced Power Management functions on some PCs. If the keyboard and IDE as useless.
13. Why doesn't the copy of an audio CD sound the same? There are actually two questions here, so I've split them into separate 16. I can't play extracted audio files by double-clicking in Win95 sections. The most common problem is that the audio extracted to the hard drive doesn't quite match the original. The default audio player in Win95 tries to load the entire file into memory.
BUT: there's another problem: after you do a full erase and shut down the program you erase with If you're using CD-RW media rather than CD-R media, you have to be sure that the CD-ROM drive it's possible that the DirectCD program won't recognize the disc as valid media, and you still won't be in question is MultiRead compliant. Some older drives are able to read CD-RW media, but most are able to format it, until you restart the computer. not.
