Actiontec electronic 1394 manual Checking the installation in Windows 2000 Professional

Checking the installation in Windows 2000 Professional

Next, find out if the 1394 FireWire Card has been properly installed and configured for use with your operating system.

Step 1 On the Windows desktop, right-click the icon for My Computer. On the menu that appears, click Proper- ties. The system properties dialog box will appear. Click the Hardware tab to bring it to the front, then click the Device Manager button.

Step 2 In Device Manager, click the plus (+) sign next to IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controller to expand that sec- tion of the listing. A listing for an “Actiontec 1394 FireWire Card” should appear as shown in the illus- tration below:

The highlighted area shown above should match the same section of the listing displayed by your com- puter. If so, the 1394 FireWire Card has been installed correctly. See “Connecting Devices to the Actiontec 1394 FireWire Card” on page6 to connect FireWire devices to the card.

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