RTC
®
4 PC Interface Board
Rev. 1.3 e
8 Installation And Start-Up
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Installation And Start-Up
Installation of the RTC
®
4 consists of the following
steps:
(1)
configuring the RTC
®
4 jumpers
(2)
installing the RTC
®
4
(3)
installing the RTC
®
4 software drivers
Please proceed in the order described in the following
sections.
8.1 Jumper Settings Overview
The factory settings for the RTC
®
4 jumpers are listed
on the supplement at the end of this manual.
If you do not want to change the factory settings,
proceed with
chapter 8.4 "Installing the Drivers",
.
The following jumpers can be set by the user (see
• Jumper for the laser signals (
X10
)
(active-high or active-low)
• Jumpers for the 9-pin D-SUB laser connector
(
X6
,
X7
,
X3
)
• Jumpers for the 8-bit digital output port on the
LASER EXTENSION connector (
X8
,
X9
) (optional)
Caution!
• RTC
®
4 boards cannot be used simultaneously
with RTC
®
3 boards in the same PC.
• Prior to installing software drivers for
WINDOWS XP and WINDOWS 2000, previously
installed drivers of the old, discontinued version
must be de-installed.
•
For installing the old, discontinued driver
version for WINDOWS XP SP1 / 2000 / NT 4 and
WINDOWS ME / 98 / 95 the software drivers
must be installed
before
the RTC
®
4 board is
installed into the PC.
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X6 X7 X3
X10
X8
X9
Jumper positions on the RTC
®
4 board