Rosewill RC-303 User manual

2-Serial/1-Parallel Port PCI Adapter RC303
User Manual

2-Serial/1-Parallel Port PCI Adapter RC303 User Manual
Overview
This PCI I/O card is a dual UART with 1284 printer interface port controller with PCI bus interface and
uses an all-in-one solution from NeMos Technology, which provides superior performance and
unmatched data transfer rates. The most advanced feature is it uses of a single interrupt, which is set
automatically by the host system and share among all on-board I/O ports and supports printer interface
as well as PS2, EPP & ECP modes.
Features
zChipset: NetMos Nm9835
zOS power: Single 5V operation
zBus: PCI 2.1s 32bit, 33MHz
zData Transfer Rate: 1Mbytes/s (serial port)
zData Transfer Rate: 1.5Mbytes/s (parallel port)
zSelectable receive trigger levels
zPCI compatible Dual UART
zMulti-mode compatible controller (SPP, PS2, EPP& ECP)
zModem control signals
zOn chip oscillator
z16Byte transmit-receive FIFO (UART)
zSoftware programmable mode selects
zProgrammable baud rate generator
zSupport plug & play features and makes installation fast and easy.
zSupports Windows98, Windows95, Windows2000 & Windows NT 4.0.
Installing the PCI I/O controller card into your computer
Turn off your computer and all external devices connect it.
Remove the computer’s cover. Refer to your computer user’s manual for more details.
Find an available PCI slot and remove the metal bracket. Save the bracket screw for later use.
Align the PCI I/O controller horizontally with respect to the PCI slot and insert it into the slot firmly and
evenly. Take care not to force it into the slot. Once you have properly positioned the PCI I/O controller
card into the slot, fasten it to the computer case with the bracket screw you have saved.
Replace the computer’s cover.
Turn your computer on. You are now read to install the driver!
Driver Installation
Windows 95/98/2000
Once the PCI I/O card is installed and the computer is restarted, Windows will detect the board and
attempt to install driver for it.
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Start Windows 95/98/2000/XP.
The“Update Device driver Wizard” will appear,
informing you that it has found a “PCI I/O Card”.
Click the “Next” button.
Click “Other Location” for Windows 95 or
“Specify a location” for Windows 98 to install
the driver.
Insert the driver CD in CD-ROM drive (D) and
click on the “Browse” button.
Windows 98/95/2000 will automatically locate
the driver in the driver diskette. Click the “OK”
button to continue.
.
Click on the finish button to start copying files
from driver diskette..
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Windows 98/95/2000 will automatically restart in order to update the hardware configuration.
Once Windows 98/95/2000 has restarted, you can now connect your external devices to the PCI I/O card. To install
the driver for the external devices, please refer to the external device user’s manual.
Windows NT 4.0
zMake sure Windows NT 4.0 is properly installed into your system first.
zStart Windows NT.
zInsert Windows NT 4.0 driver diskette (disk 2) into the floppy drive.
zSelect “RUN” option in Windows NT.
zAt the “RUN” option, click on the“Browse” button.
zAt the Browse for Folder window:
zSelect “Floppy (A)”
zDouble click on the winnt folder
zSelect NetMosXXX drivers.exe
zClick on the Open button
zFinally, click the“OK” button
zFollow the instructions to finish up the driver installation. Your system will automatically restart in
order to complete the driver installation.
zInstalling DOS Driver
zCopy “NMDOSIN.EXE” to your hard disk and run “NMDOSIN.EXE”
zUpdate Drivers
zPlease visit this website: http:/www.rosewill.com/for all the latest drivers for your PCI I/O card.
Thank you for purchasing a quality Rosewill Product.
Please register your product at : www.rosewill.com/ for complete warranty information and future support for your
product.
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