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Installation guide for Alarm Receiver Exprecium
MCDI Inc.
Internet: http://www.mcdi.com
86 Claude-Champagne Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada H2V 2X1
Telephone: +514-481-1067
Fax: +514-481-1487
Here is an example of display provided by the COMIRQ utility :
COM D400 IRQ 5 : ANY INCOMING SIGNAL Hit "Space Bar" to send ACK
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@<CR>
@<CR>
@<CR>
11:09 02/08 12 1234 51<CR>
11:09 02/08 12 1234 51<CR>
11:09 02/08 12 1234 51<CR>
11:09 02/08 12 1234 51<CR>
@<CR>
11:09 02/08 12 4378 O66<CR>
11:10 02/08 12 4378 O66<CR>
11:10 02/08 12 1234 51<CR>
@<CR>
@<CR>
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IRQ Number might Be Available : 3 5 10 11
<ESC> To exit --- <DEL> Clear screen --- Press "A" to enable <ACK>
The top line of the display indicates your Base address and IRQ setting. Press the letter “A” to acknowledge all signals. In the above
example, the COM port address is D400 and the IRQ is 5. This is the information required to configure your DOS software.
Installing Windows 95 drivers :
1.
Power up the computer and allow it to boot into Windows 95. Windows 95 detects that you have added new hardware (Exprecium
receiver card). The New Hardware Found dialog displays : PC SERIAL CONTROLLER. The Add New Hardware Wizard will
detect an : OXCB950 Cardbus UART.
2.
Insert your Exprecium CDROM disk in your CDRON drive and
click
NEXT
to continue.
3.
When asked to : “ Please insert the disk labeled ‘High-performance ports driver disk’ and then click OK “,
click
OK
to continue.
4.
The following message will be displayed : “The file ‘oxmf.vxd’ in high-performance ports driver disk could not be found”,
click
BROWSE
, in the Drive Section,
select your CDROM drive
then
click OK.
5.
The same dialog box will appear again. This time just
click OK
. Windows will complete the installation.
For each Exprecium card installed, Windows will create a new COM port starting at COM5 (COM1 to COM4 are reserved for your PC).
The second card will be on COM6, the third one on COM7 and so on ...
Installing Windows 98 drivers :
1.
Power up the computer and allow it to boot into Windows 98. Windows 98 detects that you have added new hardware (Exprecium
receiver card). The New Hardware Found dialog displays : PC SERIAL CONTROLLER. The Add New Hardware Wizard will
detect an : OXCB950 Cardbus UART,
click
NEXT
to continue.
2.
When asked to specify how to install the driver, select SEARCH FOR THE BEST DRIVER FOR YOUR DEVICE, and then
click
NEXT
.
3.
Insert the CDROM DRIVERS & UTILITIES into the CDROM drive. In the Add New Hardware Wizard box, select
CDROM
DRIVES (as the location for the drivers) and
press
NEXT
. The Install Disk dialog displays :
?:\OXPCI.INF
press
NEXT
.
4.
Windows will copy and install the required drivers for your Exprecium card.
Click
FINISH
to let Windows complete the process.
For each Exprecium card installed, Windows will create a new COM port starting at COM5 (COM1 to COM4 are reserved for your PC).
The second card will be on COM6, the third one on COM7 and so on ...
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