2-2 C168P 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 C168P 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
C168P, 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.
How to Do Quick Hardware Installation
Users who install only one C168P 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
software configuration program will automatically update the hardware settings.
After this, users already complete the whole installation.
4. Shutdown System (Windows NT/95/98).