Lava OCTOPUS-550 User Manual

Lava Octopus-550

Installation Manual

OCTOPUSPCI

MADE

IN

CANADA

LAVACOMPUTERS

P.N.MOKO L81.0

Rev.B00

Windows NT 4.0 Installation

1. With the power turned off,insert the Octopus-550 card into any free
PCI slot in your PC. Boot NT logging on as “Administrator”.

2. Place the installation diskette into your floppy drive
and select Run from the Start Menu. When prompted type:
A:\NT4.0\Setup.

3. After the necessary files have been copied,select My Computer and
start Control Panel.A new icon will appear called “LavaPort.”This
applet should now be used to configure ALL Com Ports in your PC –
not just Lava serial ports.

Please note that Com 1 may not appear in this applet if you have your
mouse attached to Com 1.

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DOS & Windows 3.x Installation

1. With the power turned off,insert the Octopus-550 card into any free
PCI slot in your PC.Turn your PC on.Boot to DOS.

2. Place the installation diskette into your floppy drive.In
the Win3.11 subdirectory of this diskette you will find a file called
“Lavaconf.exe”. Copy this file to your hard drive and run it.

3. When run, Lavaconf.exe will display two sets of four I/O addresses
and one IRQ.These correspond to the addresses and IRQ chosen by
your PC when configuring the . Make a note of them.

4. If you are using Windows 3.x,start Windows and go to Control Panel
| Ports. Choose Com 3 for Port 1 and Com 4 for Port 2 on the
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and IRQ for each port as reported by Lavaconf.exe. Reboot your PC
for these changes to take effect.

Note: Native DOS and Windows 3.X support a maximum of four Com

ports in a PC. If you wish to use four ports on the ,you must

disable the existing ports on your motherboard. Users running DOS or

Windows 3.x exclusively on a system with an Octopus-550 will be

unable to access four of the card's ports,regardless of configuration.

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. Click the Advanced button and enter the I/O address

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