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Lava Parallel-PCI/LP
Installation Manual
LAVA
COMPUTERS
MADE
PN MOKO S-1
IN MADE IN JAPAN
0255351
PARALLEL PCI/LP P.N. MOKO L72.4
CANADA
Rev. B00
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Windows Hardware and Driver Installation 1. Before opening the casing of your computer, make sure that all power is off. 2. Locate an unused PCI slot and insert the Parallel-PCI/LP card into it. Ensure that the card is well seated. 3. Screw the metal bracket of the Parallel-PCI/LP card to your PC’s casing and replace the machine’s cover. 4. Connect your parallel (printer) cable to the port on the Parallel- PCI/LP card and turn the PC on. 5. When Windows starts, it will find a Parallel-PCI/LP Con
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necessary files from the diskette, Windows may restart your PC in order to complete the installation of the Parallel-PCI/LP card. Any Plug and Play printers attached to the Parallel-PCI/LP will now also be detected and installed.Windows XP may display a message to the effect that the drivers are not digitally signed.This warning can be ignored. 6. The Parallel-PCI/LP card will appear in Control Panel|System|Device Manager under Ports, as a listing similar to the one below. If required, settings
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Connecting a non-printer device (e.g. external drive or parallel scanner) to the Parallel-PCI/LP In Windows 95/98/ME (not Windows 2000/XP) some parallel port devices require parallel ports that use standard (legacy) ISA LPT addresses (0278h or 0378h). Because the Parallel-PCI/LP card is a fully compliant PCI device, its default address (Input/Output Range) is beyond the standard range of ISA I/O addresses. In order to connect such a peripheral to the Parallel-PCI/LP card, the I/O address range o
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2. Remove the check mark from the Use Automatic Settings box. Note: In some cases Windows will give an error message to the effect that "Windows cannot modify this resource" at this point. If you are unable to access the settings for changing system resources, reboot the system in Safe Mode to make changes to resource settings. (To enter Safe Mode, press the F8 key while the system is rebooting.) 3. Double-click on the words Input/Output Range.The following screen will appear:
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4. Use the up/down arrows to scroll to one of the following range settings, or type them in manually: 0278 – 027F 0378 – 037F 0338 – 033F 0238 – 023F 02B8 – 02BF 5. After one of these has been entered, click OK.Windows will verify whether you would like to force this particular configuration rather than the automatic one that it had previously chosen. Click Yes. 6. Verify that there are no conflicts with addresses being used by other devices already in your PC. If no conflicts are found, restart
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Release Notes: A. This documentation describes the installation of the Parallel-PCI/LP card on a Windows95/98/Me/2000/XP PC. Instructions and software for DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows NT 4.0 may be found in the NT4.0 subdirectory of the Parallel-PCI/LP card Installation diskette. Instructions for Linux installation are available at www.lavalink.com. B. Because the Parallel-PCI/LP card uses PCI (not ISA) I/O address ranges, it will never be seen by your BIOS at boot-up as a standard parallel por
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Lava Technical Support 9:00 am to 5:30 pm Monday to Friday (Eastern Time) Tel: +416 674-5942 Fax: + 416 674-8262 E-mail: tech@lavalink.com Internet: www.lavalink.com Lava Computer MFG Inc. This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Lava Computer MFG Inc. 908 Niagara Fa
