________________________________________________________________ | | | Compex RE100ATX 10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter | | (C) Copyright PDS, 2002. All Rights Reserved. | |______________________________________________________________| INTRODUCTION ============ The installation for the NDIS4 driver for Windows 98 is menu driven through the Windows 98 interface. The directory structure provided on the driver diskette has been setup for automatic OEM installation. The file "RE100ND4.INF" is the setup file in the root directory used by Windows 98. Follow the guidelines in the Microsoft Windows 98 manuals for more details. WINDOWS 98 Installation INSTALLATION PROCEDURE: Most system comes with pre-installed Windows 98. This installation steps assumed your PC has Windows 98 pre-installed. This assumed your CDROM drive is drive D. If your CDROM has a different drive letter please replace to your drive letter. 1) Power OFF the PC and install RE100ATX card in a free PCI slot. Ensure the PCI slot supports busmastering and is enabled. 2) When Windows 98 starts, Windows 'Add Hardware Wizard' will automatically detect and found the new PCI card and display the message, "PCI Etenret Card" Insert RE100ATX driver CD disk and click NEXT button. 3) Windows then provide the followin options to look for the RE100ATX driver. o - Search for the best driver for your device (Recommanded) o - Display a list of all the drivers in the specific location so you can select the driver you want. Chose the first one and click NEXT, 3) Windows then let you mark on one or more of the following _/ - Floppy Disk Drive o - CR-ROM o - Specifiy a location Check only on "Floppy Disk Drive" option and click NEXT, * Hint:- If you have not inserted the driver disk after you click NEXT, insert the RE100ATX driver disk and click BACK button to back step once then click NEXT button again to read the disk. 4) Windows will display the following; "Compex RE100ATX 10_100 PCI Fast Ethernet(NDIS4)" Click NEXT, to start copy the driver. 5) Windows will contiune to copy all related files from Windows 98 CDROM. When completed it will prompt to Restart the machine. At this point you may want to add and/or change to other network protocols, Windows clients, and other services. Then click "NO" and Windows will start up to the Active desktop. Click on the Network applet in Control Panel to add/or make the changes. Refer to Windows manual for more details. Click YES if you do not intend to add additional services, clients and protocols. By default, Windows 98 install only the following; o- Client for Microsoft Network o- Compex RE100ATX 10\100 PCI Fast Ethernet(NDIS4) o- TCPIP If your machine will share it resources, add Files and Printing share services. Refer to Windows help for details on adding these. 6) When completed, Windows will again prompt to restart the machine. Click YES. 7) When Windows restarted, Compex RE100ATX PCI adpater is ready to access the network. Uninstall RE100ATX Windows 98 driver =================================== After the first successfully installation for RE100ATX PCI adapter, if for any reason you removed the network adapter entry in Network applet in Control Panel, and do a reinstallation of the adapter, you do not need to insert the driver disk again. Windows will be automatically detected the adapter and install the driver after the first installation. For this reason if there is a update driver, you have to uninstall the adapter driver from Windows first before new driver can be installed. To uninstall the adapter driver files do the following, A) First run UNRE98.bat to remove the driver. i) From Windows goto DOS prompt and run UNRE98.bat from the disk \WIN98 directory. e.g., d:\WIN98\UNRE98 ii) To proceed to remove the drivers, press any key to continue. If you changed you mind, press CTRL-C to abort. B) Then goto Control Panel | Network applet| to remove the adapter from the network list. C) Answer YES to restart Windows.