Moxa Technologies C104H/PCI Series user manual Software Installation, Windows NT

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Software Installation

In this chapter, the software driver installation, configuration and driver update/removal procedures are described for various operating systems, including Windows NT, and Windows 95/98. Before proceeding with the software installation, complete the hardware installation first.

If it is required to develop your own applications, please refer to the next chapter, “Serial Programming Tools” for serial programming issues.

Windows NT

Windows NT supports up to 256 serial ports, from COM1 to COM256. To fully utilize the advanced features of Windows NT, multi-process, multi-thread, and pure 32-bit Windows NT device drivers are developed for the Smartio C104H/PCI Series and other MOXA multiport boards. The drivers conform to Win32 COMM API standard.

To install the driver for the very first time, please go directly to Section “Installing Driver”.

To re-configure the board and port for installed boards, please refer to Section “Configuring Board and Port”.

To update the driver for installed boards, please refer to Section “Updating Driver”.

To remove the driver, please go to Section “Removing Driver”.

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