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Serial / Parallel I/O, 2/1-Port
PCI Add-On Card
User Manual
(DS-33040)
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Respective owners.
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Features and Benefits
Features Compliant with PCI Local Bus Specification,
Revision 2.3
Supports 2 x UART serial ports
Add one IEEE 1284 Parallel Port on system
Easy Plug and Play
Automatically selects IRQ & I/O address
Built-in 16C450/550 compatible UART
On chip 256 byte FIFOs in transmit and receive
path of each serial port
Serial data transfer rate up to 115200bps
Supports Standard Parallel Port (SPP), Enhanced
Parallel (EPP) & Enhanced Capability Port (ECP)
Parallel data transfer rate up to 1.5Mbytes/sec
Bus PCI 32-bit
Connectors 2 x DB9 male serial connectors
1 x DB25 female parallel connector
System Requirements
Windows® 7, Vista, XP
Available PCI slot
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Hardware Installation
1. Turn Off the power to your computer.
2. Unplug the power cord and remove your computer’s cover.
3. Remove the slot bracket from an available PCI slot.
4. To install the card, carefully align the card’s bus connector with
the selected PCI slot on the motherboard. Push the board down
firmly.
5. Replace the slot bracket’s holding screw to secure the card.
6. Replace the computer cover and reconnect the power cord.
Driver Installation
For Windows® 2000/XP/Server 2003
1. Don’t insert the PCI card into PCI slot.
2. At the Windows desktop click Start, then Run.
3. Ty pe D:\DS-33040\2K_XP_2003\PciSetup.exe, then click OK.
4. Press “Install” button to install the drivers.
5. Click “Exit” button to complete the driver installation.
6. Shutdown the PC.
7. Place the PCI card into PCI slot and then power on the system.
8. Once the system gets booted the Windows will automatically start
installing the device driver software.
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For Windows® XP-x64/Server 2003-x64
1. Don’t insert the PCI card into PCI slot.
2. Type D:\DS-33040\XP_2003 x64\PCISetup.exe, then click OK.
3. Press “Install” button to install the drivers.
4. Click “Exit” button to complete the driver installation.
5. Shutdown the PC.
6. Place the PCI card into the PCI slot then power on the system.
7. Once the system gets booted the Windows will automatically start
installing the device driver software.
For Windows® Vista
1. Don’t insert the PCI card into PCI slot.
2. Type D:\DS-33040\Vista32\PciSetup.exe, then click OK.
3. Press “Install” button to install the drivers.
4. Click “Exit” button to complete the driver installation.
5. Shutdown the PC.
6. Place the PCI card into PCI slot and then power on the system.
Once the system gets booted the Windows will automatically start
installing the device driver software.
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For Windows® Vista-x64
1. Don’t insert the PCI card into PCI slot.
2. Type D:\DS-33040\ Vista64\PCISetup.exe, then click OK.
3. Press “Install” button to install the drivers.
4. Click “Exit” button to complete the driver installation.
5. Shutdown the PC.
6. Place the PCI card into PCI slot and then power on the system.
Once the system gets booted the Windows will automatically start
installing the device driver software.
To Verify Windows® Driver Installation
Click on the Device Manager tab in System Properties, which you
access from the Windows Control Panel. You should see two
High-Speed PCI Serial Port … and one PCI ECP Parallel Port …
installed under Ports (COM & LPT) item.
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