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Windows 7 / Vista / 2003 / XP / 2000 Driver Installation
You need to have administrator privileges to install any new drivers under Windows 7/ Vista / 2003/ XP / 2000. To install
the driver or update the configuration please log onto Windows as "Administrator" or ask your system administrator to
install the USB to serial driver.
NOTE:
You need to install driver first, prior to hardware installation. Do not connect the VSCOM USB PRO Series Industrial
I/O Adapters to the USB port of your computer, before you finish driver installation.
Please proceed with the following steps to install the driver:
1.
Insert the “USB COM Series Driver and Utility” CD into your CD-ROM.
2.
The “USB COM Series Driver and Utility CD” dialog box appears.
3.
Under “Driver Installation”, double click “Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000 driver” to install the device driver.
4.
The USB COM install program will auto-detect the OS type and install the driver automatically. (Note: in
Windows 7 or Vista OS you will find another dialog box, please click on “OK” to confirm the drivers install
program).
5.
After the message
“FTDI CDM Driver installation process completed”
appears, press “Enter” to complete the
driver installation.
6.
Plug in the USB PRO Series Adapter to the USB port of your computer. Windows will finish installing the driver
files.
Check Installation
You can now verify the installation has been completed successfully by looking under Device Manager of the System
Properties screen. (Go there by Start-Setting- Control Panel-System Properties-Hardware-Device Manager.
The device should have installed as a "USB Serial Port (COMx)" attached to "USB Serial Converter (A/B)".
Change COM Port Properties & COM Port Number
This feature is particularly useful for programs, such as HyperTerminal, which only work with COM1 through COM4.
Please ensure that you do not change the COM Port Number already in use.
