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CP-104UL V2 Smart Serial Board
Quick Installation Guide
F
ourth
Edition, April 2005
1. Overview
CP-104UL V2 is a 4-port RS-232 Universal PCI serial board that is
ideal for connecting a wide range of serial devices to a PC. Suitable
devices include terminals, modems, printers, scanners, cash registers,
bar code readers, keypads, numeric displays, electrical scales, and data
acquisition equipment. The board’s device drivers make full use of the
128-byte Tx/Rx FIFO and on-chip H/W and S/W flow control, which
allow data transmission at speeds of up to 921.6 Kbps.
CP-104UL V2 is a
MOXA Green Product
. Moxa’s Green Products
satisfy the RoHS directive of the European Parliament, and accordingly,
do not contain cadmium and cadmium compounds, hexavalent
chromium compounds, lead and lead compounds, mercury and mercury
compounds, PBBs (polybrominated biphenyls), or PBDEs
(polybrominated diphenyl ethers).
2. Package Checklist
Before installing the CP-104UL V2 board, verify that the package
contains the following items:
y
1 CP-104UL V2 4-port serial board
y
Documentation and Software CD, which contains drivers for
Windows 2000/XP/2003, Windows NT, Windows 95/98, DOS,
FreeBSD, SCO, and Linux.
y
CP-104UL V2 Quick Installation Guide
y
1 CBL-M44M9x4-50 Cable (with CP-104UL-DB9 V2)
y
1 CBL-M44M25x4-50 Cable (with CP-104UL-DB25 V2)
Notify your sales representative if any of the above items is missing or
damaged.
3. Hardware Installation Procedure
The CP-104UL V2 board MUST be installed in the PC before installing
the driver. The following directions explain how to install the board in the
PC.
STEP 1
: Power off the PC.
STEP 2
: Insert the CP-104UL control board firmly into a free PCI or
PCI-X slot.
STEP 3
: Fasten the holding screw to fix the control board in place.
STEP 4
: Connect one of the connection boxes or connection cables to
CP-104UL, and connect an adaptor if required.
STEP 5
: Power on the PC; the BIOS will set the IRQ and I/O address
automatically.
4. Software Installation Information
The board MUST be plugged in before installing the driver software. See
the previous section for instructions on how to install the board in your
PC. Refer to the CP-104UL User’s Manual for detailed instructions on
installing the drivers for this board.
Windows 2003/XP Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, Windows 2003/XP will detect the
CP-104UL V2 board automatically.
2.
Insert the CP-104UL V2 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3.
Select
Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
.
4.
After selecting
Search for the best driver in these locations
, check
the
Include this location in the search
checkbox, and then use the
browse button to navigate to the CD’s
CP-104UL v2\Software\Win2K-XP-2003
folder.
5.
Click
Continue Anyway
in response to any warnings that the
software hasn’t passed Windows Logo testing.
6.
After the board has been installed, the installation wizard will guide
you through the port installation procedure, starting with port 0.
7.
Use the
Device Manager
to check if the installation of the board and
ports was successful. Click on the + sign next to
Hardware
, and then
check under
Multi-port serial adapters
and
Ports (COM & LPT)
. If
there are any special marks, such as a question mark or exclamation
point, in front of the board or port icons, examine the
Event Log
as a
first step to determine where the problem is.
Windows 2000 Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, Windows 2000 will detect the CP-104UL
V2 board automatically.
2.
Insert the CP-104UL V2 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3.
Select
Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)
.
4.
In
Optional search location
, checkmark
specify a location
. Navigate
to the
\CP-104UL V2\Software\Win2K-XP-2003
folder on the
software CD, and then click on
OK
to continue.
5.
Click
Continue Anyway
in response to any warnings that the
software hasn’t passed Windows Logo testing.
6.
After the board has been installed, the installation wizard will guide
you through the port installation procedure, starting with port 0.
NOTE: Be sure to install the software from the CD’s
CP-104UL v2\Software\Win2K-XP-2003
folder.
7.
Use the
Device Manager
to check if the installation of the board and
ports was successful. Click on the + sign next to
Hardware
, and then
check under
Multi-port serial adapters
and
Ports (COM & LPT)
. If
there are any special marks, such as a question mark or exclamation
point, in front of the board or port icons, examine the
Event Log
as a
first step to determine where the problem is.
Windows 95/98 Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, Windows 95/98 will detect the
CP-104UL V2 board automatically.
2.
Insert the CP-104UL V2 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3.
There some differences between the installation procedures for
Windows 95 and Windows 98. However, in both cases, be sure to
install the driver from the CD’s
CP-104UL v2\Software\Win9x\Windows.95
folder.
4.
After the board has been installed, the installation wizard will open
the port configuration window.
NOTE: If an error message similar to “CP-104UL board (BusNo=x,
DevNo=x, Port1=COMx) interrupt number is invalid!” pops up, refer
to the “Troubleshooting” chapter of the User’s Manual for
information on how to handle this error.
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