EXP Computer CRW-740 Installation Manual

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CRW-740

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  • Page 1 PC Card CD ReWritable Installation Manual CRW-740...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    RMA number. You are responsible for packaging, providing proof of the date of purchase and • the shipping cost of the failed product to EXP Computer, Inc. You are responsible for mailing the SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT warranty registration card. The warranty claims may not be honored if there is no corresponding registration card on file at EXP.
  • Page 3: Introduction

    INTRODUCTION PACKAGE CONTENTS The CD ReWriter is a portable CD-ROM drive, which consists of a low- 1. Parallel Port interface cable power CD rewritable drive, a small 26 pin universal connector, a cable for Standard 25 pin Parallel port connector and 26 pin small connector. Parallel port (printer port),.
  • Page 4: Part Name And Functions

    PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS REAR PANEL FRONT PANEL 1. Power Button: The front panel of your CD Rewriter may look slightly different from the Press the button to manually power on/off the drive. figure shown below. The important parts and functions, however, are the same 2.
  • Page 5: Installation For Parallel Port Interface

    SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98 INSTALLATION Check all the connection as states in the “Hardware Installation” section. The installation procedures have two sections for each type of interface. From the Desktop Click ‘My Computer’ icon, ‘Control Panel’ and then ‘Add New Hardware’...
  • Page 6 3. Open "SCSI controllers". Click "Have Disk...". VERIFY YOUR INSTALLATION From “desk top” click on “my computer” icon. There should be addition CD-ROM drive’s icon displayed. 4. Insert Installation Diskette into the drive selected, then click "OK". If you're installing from a directory containing downloaded installation files, specify the full path of the directory and click "OK".
  • Page 7: Software Installation For Windows Nt 4.0

    SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 In Windows NT 4.0, you may select “Control Panel” under “Settings” from the “Start” menu to open the “Control Panel” folder, double click the “SCSI Adapter” icon) On the ‘SCSI Adapter’ column shows “PHT Parallel-Port PHT-Serial NT Drivers”...
  • Page 8: Software Installation For Windows 95 And

    INSTALLATION FOR PCMCIA INTERFACE SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98 The “New Hardware Found” dialog box* will appear when you insert the CD very first time. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ReWriter card under Windows 95 for the If install on a NT station, make sure you turn OFF all power to your system before connecting the CD ReWriter to your computer.
  • Page 9: Software Installation For Windows Nt 4.0

    For user with a newer revision of Windows 95 od Windows 98, “Update SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 Device Driver Wizard” box * will appear. Click on “Next” button, let PC CARD Interface Windows 95 search for driver. Make sure to insert the CD device driver Currently there is no Plug and Play support for PC Card (PCMCIA) on the diskette into your floppy drive.
  • Page 10 CD-Audio and data CD. WARNING If you are using the CD Rewriter or software supply by EXP Computer Inc. to reproduce copyright data, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Consult your legal adviser before you proceed. You may be violate the...
  • Page 11: Trouble Shooting

    TROUBLE SHOOTING Symptom: The EXP CD starts to become excessively slow or does not PARALLEL PORT INTERFACE work at all. Solution: The parallel port on your machine may be able to a number of Symptom: No additional drive icon in “My Computer”. The EXP CD driver different modes, standard, Bi-directional, EPP or ECP.
  • Page 12: Pc Card Interface

    PCMCIA INTERFACE If you see the screen below, it means the PCMCIA device driver is not using 32-Bit Card Support. Follow on screen instructions Symptom: No “New Hardware Found” dialog box display. by except all the default setting. At the end of the installation, you will be asked to restart the computer.
  • Page 13 In some computer, the I/O Range XXX, Interrupt Request 15 Symptom: No additional drive icon in “My Computer”. may be use by a built-in secondary IDE controller. Try changing The EXP CD driver installed without any incident. the interrupt to 9,10 or 11. You can also try different I/O addresses.
  • Page 14: Parallel Port Interface

    REMOVING OR RE-INSTALLING THE DRIVER PCMCIA INTERFACE PARALLEL PORT INTERFACE If you need to remove or reinstalling the driver, make sure the EXP CD-ROM disk card is inserted. Go to “My Computer” icon, “Control Panel”, “System”,“ Device Manager” • Go to “My Computer” icon, “Control Panel”, “System”,“ Device Click on “SCSI Controller ”.
  • Page 15: Fcc Compliance Statements

    APPENDIX B APPENDIX A FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS Media consideration This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits The media for the CDRW is important. CDRW disk that is made for a 2x are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference rewrite will not work in this drive.
  • Page 16 APPENDIX C Most Win95-based recording software recommend turning off Auto Insert Notification. Having this on can interfere with closing sessions or even just inserting discs into the drive. You can disable it by Tips opening the "System" icon in the Control Panel, and selecting "Device Manager". For each item under CD-ROM, select the device, click on the "Settings"...
  • Page 17 It's also possible that you simply have a bad batch of media. Try a different type and brand of disc. There are a few of possibilities, some software and some hardware. Some distributors (e.g. dataDisc) will exchange media that's provably defective. It may be that the system is looking at the disc, not finding a TOC (table of contents), and ejecting it Be careful with Advanced Power Management functions on some PCs.
  • Page 18 13. Why doesn't the copy of an audio CD sound the same? There are actually two questions here, so I've split them into separate 16. I can't play extracted audio files by double-clicking in Win95 sections. The most common problem is that the audio extracted to the hard drive doesn't quite match the original.
  • Page 19 BUT: there's another problem: after you do a full erase and shut down the program you erase with If you're using CD-RW media rather than CD-R media, you have to be sure that the CD-ROM drive it's possible that the DirectCD program won't recognize the disc as valid media, and you still won't be in question is MultiRead compliant.

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