Board and Port Ready Stage
Board and Port Ready Stage for Windows 95 and Windows 98 is a slight different.
In this last stage, you will complete the driver installation.
Windows 95
After the port configuration, you can immediately use the COM ports of the Smartio C104H/PCI Series board without restarting Windows 95.
Windows 98
After the port configuration, click [Finish] button. The COM ports of the Smartio C104H/PCI Series board can be used without restarting Windows 98.
Note! If an error message similar to “C104PCI Series(BusNo=x, DevNo=x, Port1=COMx) interrupt number is invalid!” pops up, refer to “Troubleshooting” chapter for solutions.
If you want to add more boards while the driver has been installed, simply plug the Smartio C104H/PCI Series board and Windows 95/98 will automatically detect the newly plugged board and skip to Port Configuration stage to do port setting.
Up to now, the driver installation of the Smartio C104H/PCI Series is complete and successful, including the board and port configuration. However, if changes of the board and port configuration are needed, please refer to the next section, “Configuring Board and Port”, for more configuration details.
Once the board and the driver are installed and the driver restarts successfully, you can start to develop applications with the PComm library (See “Serial Programming Tools”) or the Microsoft Win32 API. You can also execute any