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 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
site at www.lavalink.com.  If there is not an FAQ that resolves your
issue send us an e-mail to tech@lavalink.com.