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Universal PCI Board Software Installation

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Windows NT supports up to 256 serial ports, from COM1 to COM256. Moxa developed pure 32-bit Windows

device drivers in order to fully utilize the advanced multi-process and multi-thread features of Windows NT. The

drivers conform to the Win32 COMM API standard.

You can download the drivers from the Moxa website. For information on developing your own serial

programming applications, please refer to Chapter 9.

Before installing the software, be sure to install the hardware first. For details on installing the hardware, please

refer to Chapter 2.

Installing the Driver

You will need to plug the board in an available PCI or PCI-X slot first, before installing the driver. Note that these

instructions use the CP-168U as an example. The procedure for installing all models is the same.

1. Log into Windows NT as Administrator.

Locate the appropriate folder for your board’s drivers on the Document & Software CD. The NT drivers will

be located under the product folder in the \Software\WinNT directory (e.g., under \CP-118U

Series\Software). Copy this folder to the PC’s hard disk and remember its location.

In the Control Panel, open Network applet. On the Adapters tab, click Add. When prompted to select a

product, click Have Disk…

You will be prompted to enter the path to the driver. Enter the location of the drivers that you copied from

the Document & Software CD (C:\Windows.nt in this example) and then click OK.

2. When prompted, select your board model (Smartio/Industio Family multiport board in this example)

and click OK.