2-2 Smartio C168H/HS User’s Manual
Now you should do either the normal hardware installation (detailed in the later
section, “Hardware Installation with IO-IRQ Utility”) or
the quick hardware
installation
(detailed right in the next section, “Quick Hardware Installation”). The
latter is provided to facilitate the hardware installation, only under the
circumstances that:
u Only one Smartio C168 Series board is allowed to install in a system.
u Windows NT and 95/98 are the only operating systems supported.
u I/O address 0xA700 must be free
Quick Hardware Installation
To fully utilize the superior feature of flexible hardware configuration design of the
Smartio C168 Series, a quick and easy method of installation is designed for users,
which absolutely free the users from hardware configuration effort, i.e.,
installation
without running configuration program: Io-irq.exe
. Simply always short the
jumper JP1. The software and hardware configuration will be completed at the same
time while doing the software configuration.
Besides, the speed range will be set to
from 50 to 921.6K bps by default, which is
called
High Speed Spectrum and detailed in the section, “Hardware Installation
with IO-IRQ Utility”.
How to Do Quick Hardware Installation
Users who install only one Smartio C168 Series board under Windows NT/95/98
are strongly recommended to do the quick installation as follows:
1. Short the jumper JP1 on the upper-left corner of the board.
2. Plug the board in PC with the desired system installed, which is powered off in
advance.
3. Process software installation, detailed in the next chapter.
This is to specify the desired I/O address, IRQ and INT Vector in the software
configuration panel, no matter what hardware settings are on the board. The