WINDOWS 2000 INSTALLATION FILE FOR LAVA PCI CARDS Lava PCI cards do not install in Windows 2000 using a setup utility. The only way they can install is when New Hardware is found at boot up of Windows. It searches your hard and floppy drives for an .inf file that includes the setup information of 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. IMPORTANT NOTE: Lava PCI cards cannot install using our Windows 95/98 installation file or using NT4.0 setup routine. If you ran our NT4.0 setup routine then visit tech support on our web site (www.lavalink.com) for a procedure to clean up those drivers. The following procedure will have our card reinstall: 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 of Windows and when New Hardware is found direct it to our lavaomf.inf file. 5) Let Windows search for our installation file and reinstall our card correctly. WINDOWS 2000 FEATURES In Windows 95/98 we provided a utility for redirecting the COM port assignment that Windows assigned our ports. This utility is no longer 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 this 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, xhere "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. TECHNICAL SUPPORT To resolve any any issues you may have with your Lava product, please, visit our Web Page at www.lavalink.com then click support. If there is not an FAQ that resolves your issue send us an email to tech@lavalink.com. Lava Computer MFG Inc. 11:35 AM 01 Oct 2001Download Driver Pack
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Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
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Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
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From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
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