Instruction manual

AMPDIO DRIVERS
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4. Windows will search for Plug and Play hardware.
Assuming it finds none, Windows will ask ‘Is the
hardware connected?’. Select the option ‘Yes, I
have already connected the hardware’ and press
‘Next’.
5. Windows will show a list of hardware already
installed on your computer. Scroll to the end of
the list and select the bottom entry, ‘Add a new
hardware device’. Press ‘Next’.
6. Windows will ask ‘What do you want the wizard
to do?’ Select the second option ‘Install the
hardware that I manually select from a list
(Advanced)’ and press ‘Next’.
7. Windows shows a list of hardware categories.
Select the ‘Amplicon Analogue Digital IO
Counter Timer Cards’ category if it exists,
otherwise select the ‘Other devices’ category.
Then press ‘Next’.
8. Press ‘Have Disk...’. On the pop-up dialog, press
‘Browse…’ and browse to the AMPDIO software
installation directory on the hard disk, or the root
directory on the SOFTMAN CD-ROM. Then
press ‘OK’.
9. Select the card type you have installed from the
list, then press ‘Next’.
10. On the page labelled ‘The Wizard is ready to
install your hardware’, press ‘Next’.
11. Windows will install the driver and reach the
‘Completing the Add Hardware Wizard’ page. On
this page, press the link labelled ‘View or change
resources for this hardware (Advanced)’ to open
the ‘Add Hardware Wizard Properties’ page.
12. On the ‘Add Hardware Wizard Properties’ page, press the button labelled ‘Set Configuration
Manually’.
13. If the settings match the base address and IRQ set on
the card’s DIP switches and jumpers, then press ‘OK’,
then ‘Finish’, then on the pop-up dialog press ‘Yes’ to
allow Windows to reboot. If the settings do not match
then carry on with the following:
14. In the ‘Settings based on’ drop-down list, select ‘Basic
Configuration 0001’ (or select ‘Basic Configuration 0002’
if the card’s IRQ jumper has been removed).
15. In the ‘Resource settings’ list, select the resource you
wish to change, press the ‘Change Setting’ button,
correct the value using the up and down buttons and
press ‘OK’. Repeat for the other resources you wish to
change.