Windows 95 Introduction: ------------- This document describes the procedure to install Windows 95 driver for PCI I/O Mode Ethernet Adapter. Location of Driver: \WIN95\RTL8029.SYS Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95 : ----------------------------------------------------- Windows 95 has three versions so far. Version 0, A and B. You can select the "System" icon in "Control Panel" box. On the System dialogue box, the "40.00.950" message is version 0, "40.00.950 A" is version A and "40.00.950 B" is version B. For version 0 and A, please follow the "New Hardware Found" installation procedures. For version B (OSR2), go to "Update Device Driver Wizard" installation procedures. 1. Insert PCI I/O Mode Ethernet Adapter into your computer's PCI-bus slot. 2. Connect the network cable to the RJ-45 connector. 3. Turn on the computer to run Windows 95. "New Hardware Found" installation procedures: 4. When "New Hardware Found" window shows up, move mouse pointer to "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer", and then push "OK". 5. When "Install From Disk" window shows up, type "A:\WIN95" or "B:\WIN95" in the input drive and path box where the driver is stored. 6. After the driver information shows up, select (highlight) the "PCI I/O Mode Ethernet Adapter" and click "OK". 7. When "Insert disk" window shows up, push "OK" button and then choose a correct path to load *.dll files, i.e. D:\WIN95. 8. After "System Setting Change" window shows up, the installation is done. Remove your installation disk, push "YES" to restart Windows 95, and the driver will function. 9. Installation is completed for Windows 95 version 0 and A. "Update Device Driver Wizard" installation procedures: If your Windows 95 is version B (OSR2), you must CAREFULLY install PCI I/O Mode LAN card drivers from the release diskette, due to that this version's "Update Device Driver Wizard" utility has poor error recovery ability. (If you make mistakes during the installation, refer to Appendix A for the error recovery). Please follow the installation steps in details below. 4. When the "Update Device Driver Wizard" dialogue box shows up, and in it, it says "This wizard will complete the installation of "PCI Ethernet Controller", put this PCI I/O Mode LAN card's release diskette to floppy drives and make sure the the drive's door is CLOSED. Then click "Next" button ONE TIME only. (Don't rush to push the "Next" button again. The rush "Next" button clicked would be assumed as "Finished" and may cause error installations (Appendix A for error recovery). It is going to take 30 seconds for Windows 95 to search the card's driver. Then, another message "Windows found the following updated driver for this device: PCI I/O Mode Ethernet Adapter" shows up, then click "Finish" button to complete the driver installation. (If it shows "Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device.", You may also click "Other Locations" and type A:, A:\WIN95, B:, or B:\WIN95, then click "OK" button). After the "Finish" button id clicked, Windows starts to copy files from Windows 95 CD-ROM to your hard disk. This is going to take around two minutes, please wait. 5. When the "Copying Files" dialogue shows up to request the directory for the "RTL8029.SYS" file. Type "A:\WIN95" or "B:\WIN95" where A: or B: drive is the place you put the release dskette in, then click "OK". Windows 95 also request Windows95 CD directory to copy network- related files. Please type the your Windows 95 CD directory name. (Traditionally, it is D:\WIN95 or D:\WINDOWS). 6. Restart your PC to complete the installation. Appendix A: (Valid only for WIndows 95 version B installation) No matter what mistakes you made in the version B's installtion procedures above and can not install the card to Windows 95. The "Update Device Driver Wizard" utility still REGISTERS to Windows 95 that the card is installed (with incoomplete error info., of sourse). Even though you carefully follow the installation procudures above for the second time to successfully install the driver, Windows 95 still treats the card as bad because the error data was already REGISTERED. Therefore, you have to remove the REGISTERED errors, before you try to install the driver again. The following describes the details to remove the registered errors. 1. Click "Network" icon in the "Control Panel" box and remove the PCI I/O Mode Ethernet Adapter you just successfully installed if any. 2. Select "Start" button (left-down corner) and select "Run" item. Type REGEDIT, the registry edidor utility , then click "OK" button to execute it. 3. In the Registry Editor dialogue, double-click "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" item, double-click "Enum", then double-click PCI item. Select the "VEN_10EC&DEV_8029", then delete it, which is the error registered. Close Register Editor dialogue. 4. Reboot Windows 95 again to carefully follow the installtion procedures above again.