step 1: power off the pc.

    to avoid damaging your system and board, make sure your pc’s power is switched off before inserting this or any other board into an empy pci slot.

    step 2: remove the pc’s cover.

    step 3: remove the slot cover bracket if one is in place.

    step 4: insert the smartio cp-168u control board firmly into a free 32-bit pci slot.

    step 5: fasten the holding screw to fix the control board in place.

    step 6: replace the pc’s cover.

    step 7: power on the pc; the bios will automatically set the irq and i/o address.

    each board must occupy one unique irq and four 8-byte i/o addresses, which are assigned automatically by the pci bios. however, you can select a free irq number manually via the pc’s bios setup for the pci slot, but normally this method is not available for the i/o address. the possible irq numbers are 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 15. the possible i/o addresses are from 0x0000 to 0xffff.

    step 8: proceed with the software installation, as described in the next chapter, “software installation”.