16-Port RS-232 Multi Serial PCI Card Installation Guide 1. Introduction Congratulation on purchasing the high performance PCI multi-serial host adapter. The adapter is high speed PCI bus based and plug-and-play compliant. Its serial ports are fully 16C550 UART compatible with most of the RS232C devices available from the market.
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16-Port RS-232 Multi Serial PCI Card 3. Jumper Settings JP3, JP2 and JP4 - External Power Selector: These jumpers were used to provide the external power to the VHDCI-68 external connector. JP3 enables or disables the power of S1~S8, JP2 enables or disables the power of S9~S16 over their octopus cables.
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16-Port RS-232 Multi Serial PCI Card Internal 5V: Power source is +5VDC, from PCI golden finger (motherboard’s PCI slot) X12V I12V JP1- COM Ports Swapping Selector: These jumpers were used to swap Serial Ports S1-S8 and S9-S16. Please keep them at the default factory settings since it may confuse you about the COM Port Numbers.
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16-Port RS-232 Multi Serial PCI Card Drivers are in each corresponding folder 5. Specification Type Specifications Connectors VHDCI-68 Female X2 Cable VHDCI-68M-to-DB9MX8 Octopus type Bus Interface 32-bit PCI Number of Ports RS-232 Signals TXD, RXD, RTS, CTS, DTR, DSR, DCD, GND Baud Rate 110 bps to 921.6Kbps Data Bits...
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