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Installing the Flexport 8S in Windows XP

Submitted By:  Douglas Whitman, Comdial

Here are tips on how you can make the Flexport 8S work in Windows XP using Windows 2000 drivers:

1. Look at help file instructions and find the IRQ and I/O ports in use.
2. Program the board.
3. Run “flex8s.exe” and allow it to reboot the machine.
4. When your system has rebooted, cancel out of the Hardware Wizard 8 times.
5. Go to the Device Manager where you will find 8 new serial ports and 8 new unknown devices.
6. Disable the unknown devices (do not uninstall them or else they will reappear).
7. Reboot your system again.
8. This time, when Hardware Wizard comes up (8 times), allow it to look for the appropriate driver, which it will not find.
9. On the final screen, check the box that says:
    

"Do not prompt me again to install this software".
 

10. This will take a while to do 8 times.
11. Next time (which is the third time) you start, you will not have Hardward Wizards, but all COM ports will be disabled.
12. Go back to Device Manager and disable all 8 unknown devices. From now on, the COM ports should work correctly.

Notes:

• Make sure that you never uninstall the unknown devices.  If you do, you will have to do all of the above all over again.
• Keep in mind that it may be possible to combine the second and third steps of the above procedure.
• One advantage of Windows XP seems to be that it is no longer necessary to disable the COM2 port of the motherboard.  The Windows 2000 drivers seem to be smart enough to place the first Flexport at COM3.  The side effect of this is that the cable markings are now off by one port, i.e. the cable marked COM2 is actually COM3.

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