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Chapter 2 Installation and Testing
3.1
Hardware installation
Be sure to turn off the computer before installing the DAQ card into it. Install it by the
followings steps:
1
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Unplug the computer's power cord and all other peripheral cables connected to the
computer.
2
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Open the computer chassis. Release the operator's body static.
3
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Pick up the DAQ card by its baffle or edge, line up the card with any PCI slot in the
computer, and correctly insert it into the PCI slot. Do not use too much force during the
process. Do not hand contact the card finger to avoiding damaging the card or the
computer.
4
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Use screws to fix the card holder on the computer's rear panel rail.
5
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Close the computer chassis. Reconnect all the cords unplugged in Step 1.
6
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Now the DAQ card hardware is installed. Restart the computer.
3.2
Installing driver
On a PC running Windows OS, if you installed Smacq PCI-1255 DAQ card without its driver,
you will see an unknown device with exclamation in the Windows device manager. Please follow
the steps below to install the driver correct (this manual will base the steps on 32-bit Microsoft
Windows 7, which are all the same on other Windows versions.)
1
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Select the device with exclamation, right click on it and select "Update Driver Software".
2
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In the window of "How do you want to search for driver software", select "Browse my
computer for driver software".
3
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In the window of “Browse my computer for driver software", select "Let me pick from a
list of device drivers on my computer".
4
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In the window of “Select the type of device from the following list”, click “Next”.
5
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In the window of “Select the device driver you want to install for this hardware”, click
“Have Disk…”, then click “Browse”. Based on your Windows version, select the file
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