Windows NT 4.0 Installation 1. With the power turned off, insert the Octopus-550 card into any free PCI slot in your PC. Boot NT logging on as “Administrator” . 2. Place the Octopus-550 installation diskette into your floppy drive and select Run from the Start Menu. When prompted type: A:\NT4.0\Setup.
DOS & Windows 3.x Installation 1. With the power turned off, insert the Octopus-550 card into any free PCI slot in your PC.Turn your PC on. Boot to DOS. 2. Place the Octopus-550 installation diskette into your floppy drive. In the Win3.11 subdirectory of this diskette you will find a file called...
Windows 95/98/Me/2000 Installation 1. With the power turned off, insert the Octopus-550 card into any free PCI slot in your PC. Make sure the card is well seated. Attach the cable.Turn your PC on and start Windows. 2. Windows will automatically detect the...
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Octopus-550 hardware appears in Device Manager in two places: under the Multi-function Adapters tree and as part of the Ports tree. Please note that any changes to the Resources (I/O Address & IRQ) used by any one of the eight ports on the Quattro-...
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Changing the Com numbering of your Octopus-550 ports (Windows 95/98/Me only) Unless you already have more than 4 Com ports installed in your PC, Windows will by default configure the Octopus-550 ports as Com 5 through Com 12.To change the Com number of any of these ports (e.g.
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Changing the Com numbering of your Octopus- 550 ports (Windows 2000/XP only) In Windows 2000, Com port numbering can be changed by double- clicking the serial port entry displayed in Windows' Device Manager. Go to Port Settings | Advanced, and choose Com Port #.
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