WINDOWS 2000 INSTALLATION FILE FOR LAVA PCI CARDS

INSTRUCTIONS ON REINSTALLING CARDS IN WINDOWS 2000

Lava PCI cards do not install in WIn2000 using a
setup utility. They install when New Hardware is
found at boot up of Windows. Windows searches your
hard and floppy drives for an .inf file that
includes the setup information for our card. This
is a plain text file that contains the setup
information for our card. Sometimes, it does not
find this file so it is necessary to have our
card reinstall.

The following procedure will reinstall our card:

1) Right Click on My Computer from the desktop
and enter Properties and then Device Manager.
Enter the section called Other Devices or
Unknown Devices.

2) Remove the reference to either PCI card or
PCI Serial Controller or PCI parallel controller
by right-clicking on it and entering Uninstall.

3) Shut down your computer normally and ensure
that our card is seated properly in the PCI slot.

4) Upon entering Windows, when New Hardware
is found direct it to the Lava Win2000 .inf file.

5) Let Windows search for our installation
file and reinstall our card correctly.

WINDOWS 2000 FEATURES

In Windows 95/98/Me we provide a utility for
redirecting the COM port assignment that 
Windows assigns our ports. This utility is not
necessary in Windows 2000. The following is the
procedure to redirect our port in Windows 2000.

1) Go to Device Manager by right-clicking on
My Computer from the Desktop and entering
Properties.

2) Open up Ports (COM & LPT) by clicking
the + sign to the left.

3) Double-click the port you wish to redirect
and enter the Port Settings Tab.

4) Click the Advanced Button.

5) In the Window that appears you can redirect
the port assignment.


SPECIAL WINDOWS 2000 FEATURE

Parallel Port LPT assignments can be
redirected. Currently the choice for redirection
is LPT1 LPT2 or LPT3.

CLEANING UP OUR INF FILE

If you are updating the .inf file from a
previous version of this file it is necessary to 
remove the old version. You must go to the
Windows\inf folder. If you don't see the
inf folder then your folder options are set
to hide that folder. To see that folder go to 

  View|Folder Options|View
	
In there make sure that the show all files
option is set. Our .inf file is found under
the name oemX.inf, where X is some integer.
You must edit using notepad.exe each oemX.inf
file and look for a reference to Lava.
If there is a reference to Lava then remove
that file. Also, remove the associated oemX.pnf
that is located here as well.