Moxa CP-112UL-I-T [60/131] Installing the driver

Universal PCI Board Software Installation

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Windows 2000 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 2000.

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

The following instructions show how to install the driver for the first time under Windows 2000. You will need

to plug the board in an available PCI or PCI-X slot first, before installing the driver.

ATTENTION

The following steps will not

be necessary if a Moxa UPCI board was already installed on your computer.

Windows will automatically detect and

install any additional board(s) at bootup. In this case, you may proceed

directly to

configuring the ports.

Note that these instructions use the CP-118U as an example. The procedure for installing all models is the

same.

1. After the board is physically installed and the PC boots up, Windows will automatically detect the new board

and the Found New Hardware Wizard window will open automatically. Click Next to continue.