User`s manual

Chapter 3 Software Installation

In this chapter, the software driver installation, configuration and driver update/removal

procedures are described for various operating systems, including Windows NT and

Windows 95/98. Before proceeding with the software installation, complete the hardware

installation detailed in previous chapter.

However, if it is necessary for you to develop your own applications, please refer to the

next chapter, “Serial Programming Tools”, for serial programming issues.

3.1 Windows NT

Windows NT supports up to 256 serial ports, from COM1 to COM256. To fully

integrate the advanced features of Windows NT, multi-process and multi-thread, pure

32-bit Windows NT device drivers are developed for the Smartio C104 PCI Series and

other MOXA multiport boards. The drivers conform to Win32 COMM API standard.

If you install the driver for the first time, please go directly to the section 3.1.1 “Installing

the Driver”.

If you have already installed the driver and want to re-configure the board and port,

please refer to the section 3.1.2, “Configuring the Port”.

If you have already installed the driver and want to add or delete boards, please refer to

the section 3.1.3, “Adding/Removing the Board”.

If you want to update or even remove the driver, please go to the section 3.1.4, “Updating

the Driver”, or the section 3.1.5, “Removing the Driver”.

3.1.1 Installing the Driver

Following is the procedure for installing the Smartio C104 PCI Series driver for the first

time under Windows NT 3.51/4.0. Make sure the board(s) has(have) already been

plugged in the system PCI slot(s).