Advantech PCI-1625U User Manual
PCI-1625U User Manual
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Chapter 3 Driver Setup and Installation
3.1 Introduction
This chapter describes the driver installation, configuration and removal
procedures for Windows operating system, including Windows 2000/XP.
We strongly recommend that you install the software driver before
you install the hardware into your system, since this will guarantee a
smooth and trouble-free installation process.
procedures for Windows operating system, including Windows 2000/XP.
We strongly recommend that you install the software driver before
you install the hardware into your system, since this will guarantee a
smooth and trouble-free installation process.
3.2 Driver Setup
Windows 2000/XP supports COM1 to COM256, up to 256 serial ports.
The PCI-1625U driver, however, will assign communication ports auto-
matically. In order to fully utilize Windows 2000/XP advanced features
such as multi-processing and multithreading, we offer pure 32-bit Win-
dows 2000/XP device drivers for PCI-1625U cards. All these drivers con-
form to Win32 COMM API standard.
The PCI-1625U driver, however, will assign communication ports auto-
matically. In order to fully utilize Windows 2000/XP advanced features
such as multi-processing and multithreading, we offer pure 32-bit Win-
dows 2000/XP device drivers for PCI-1625U cards. All these drivers con-
form to Win32 COMM API standard.
Note:
We support all 32-bit Windows API but not
included IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_QUEUE_SIZE
and IOCTL_SERIAL_RESET_DEVICE.
included IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_QUEUE_SIZE
and IOCTL_SERIAL_RESET_DEVICE.