User Manual

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing a StarTech.com PCI 16550 serial card. This high performance

add-in card adds one or two serial ports to your PC work station. You can connect your

PDAs, digital cameras, serial printers, or any other peripheral that uses as RS-232 serial

interface.

Features

• Transfers data at speeds of up to 920 Kbps

• Supports true 32-bit PCI-Bus

• Conforms to PCI V2.1 Plug and Play standards

• Eliminates IRQ conflict by sharing IRQ lines

• Backed by StarTech.com’s lifetime warranty

Before You Begin

To ensure a quick and easy card installation, please read through this section carefully

before attempting to install the card.

System Requirements

• An IBM PC or compatible computer running Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP, NT 4.0,

Windows 3.1, Linux

• An open PCI slot

WARNING! PCI cards, like all computer equipment, can be severely damaged by static

electricity. Be sure that you are properly grounded before opening your computer case or

touching your PCI card. StarTech.com recommends that you wear an anti-static strap

when installing any computer component. If an anti-static strap is unavailable, discharge

yourself of any static electricity build-up by touching a large grounded metal surface

(such as the computer case) for several seconds. Also be careful to handle the PCI card by

its edges and not the gold connectors.

Contents

This package should contain:

• 1 x PCI serial card

• 1 x driver disk

• 1 x second port with IDE ribbon (PCI2S550_LP only)