| How to configure boards with ISA interface? |
To configure C102/C104/C168 series and C114HI multiport board, you must use IO-IRQ.EXE under DOS. You may find IO-IRQ.EXE in following driver disks.
- DOS driver disk
- WindowsNT/95 driver disk
IO-IRQ.EXE can be executed under the following operating systems.
- MS-DOS or other compatible DOS
- Windows95/98 DOS prompt
Please note that IO-IRQ.EXE is not executable under WindowsNT DOS prompt due to I/O protection of WindowsNT. The procedure to configure 102/C104/C168 is as below.
Power off PC. Set JP1=short for the Moxa board and insert it into the PC.
Power on and enter DOS or Windows95.
Run IO-IRQ.EXE. Please enter "A700" as CAP address and then configure I/O addresses, Interrupt Vector, and IRQ.
Power off PC and set JP1=open.
Reboot PC for driver configuration. |
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| There are 2 RS-232 serial ports and are not RS-422 or RS-485 ports in a PC. How to set RS-422 or RS-485 ports in a PC? |
| You may add a multiport board, which had RS-422 or RS-485 ports, in your PC. |
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| How to make sure Moxa multiport boards works fine after WindowsNT driver installed and rebooted? |
Enter [System Administration Utilities][Event Viewer], and find the log message. The log message tells you the status of driver initialization at each system reboot.
For C102/C104/C168/C114HI non-intelligent board, please check "System" category and find latest log issued by "mxser".
For C168H/PCI, please check "System" category and find latest log issued by "mxserp".
For C218plus/C320Turbo, please check "Application" category and find latest log issued by "mxload". |
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| C320/C320Turbo series board and Windows95 driver installed under Windows95. Error message "Moxa C320 number of UART module mismatch!" appears after reboot. |
Total port number specified in C320 driver is not identical to real connected port number. Please recheck the total port number connected and correct it in driver configuration.
UART module or extensive module is not well connected.
Cable between Basic/CPU module and extensive module is not connected. |
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| C320/C320Turbo series board and Windows95 driver installed under Windows95. Error message "Moxa C320 CPU Modules not found!" appears after reboot. |
he link cable between control board and CPU module/Basic module is not well connected or missing.
Power of CPU module/Basic module is not on. |
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| C320/C320Turbo series board and driver installed under WindowsNT. After reboot, error message "MOXA C320 Series (CC000) numbers of UART Modules mismatch!" appears in EventLog. |
Total port number specified in C320/C320Turbo driver is not identical to real connected port number. Please recheck the total port number connected and correct it in driver configuration panel.
The UART module or extensive module is not well connected. |
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| C218/C218Turbo/C320/C320Turbo series board and UNIX driver installed. The error message "CPU Module not found!!" appears during system boot. |
The link cable between control board and CPU module/Basic module is not well connected or missing.
Power of CPU module/Basic module is not on. |
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| Link error occurs while linking Pcomm library under Borland C++ compiler. |
| Currently, PComm.lib is in Visual C++ format. For Borland C++, please link Pcommb.lib, or use the utility implib.exe of Borland C++ to create another .lib file in Borland C format. You may execute "implib -c PComm.lib PComm.dll" to obtain Borland-compliant library PComm.lib from "PComm.dll". |
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| C104/C168 series and C114HI board installed under Windows95/NT by Quick Installation mode. But network connection becomes very slow. |
| Some network board with partial I/O address decode may conflict with our access address 0xA700 and therefore cause network problem. The solution is to change I/O address of the network board to any I/O addresses, such as 0x320, 0x340, other than 0x300. |
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| Moxa board is installed in my WindowsNT server for RAS(Remote Access Service). However, RAS ports are not working. |
1.MOXA Board Configuration
Enter [Start][Programs][System Management Tools][Event Viewer], Check the item "Application" and find latest "Mxload" event for C218/C320. If you are using C104/C168/C168HPCI, please choose "System" and find latest "Mxser" or "Mxserp" event. If any error message appears, please refer to the troubleshooting procedure respectively.
2.RAS Configuration
Make sure that the maximum transmitting rate of the modem are less than the MOXA Board supports. (C320 Turbo : 460.8K bps; C320: 57.6K bps; C218 Plus : 115.2K bps)
Make sure the MOXA Port for Dial-in are assigned to RAS Server.
The MOXA Port for RAS server are configured as "Receive Call" or "Both of Dial Out and Receive Call".
The protocols that Client supports should be the same as the Server site. |
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| Which operating systems supported by Moxa multiport boards? |
Moxa multiport board supports drivers for most of the popular operating systems, including DOS, Windows95/98, WindowsNT4.0, SCO OpenServer, Unixware, Linux, in the world. For more detail information, please refer to the following web pages.
http://www.moxa.com |
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| How many programming tools available for data serial transmitting for Moxa multiport board under current operating systems? |
DOS
- Moxa API-232/DOS
Windows3.x
- Win16 SDK
- VB 16bit MsCOMM
- Delphi 16bit 3rd party communication object
- Other communication tools compliant with Win16 SDK standard
- Moxa API-232/Win3.x
Windows95/98/NT
- Win32SDK
- VB 32bit MsCOMM
- Delphi 32bit 3rd party communication object
- Other communication tools compliant with Win32 SDK standard
- Moxa Pcomm library
Unix/Linux
- Any communication tools compliant with Unix standard functions. |
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| How many programming tools are supported by Moxa PComm library under Win32 systems? |
PComm library supports following 32bit compilers under Win32 systems, I.e. WindowsNT/95/98.
Visual C++
Borland C++, Borland C++ Builder
Delphi
Visual Basic |
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| How to choose C320Turbo Desktop components when RS-232 and RS-422 interface both needed? |
There are a variety of UART modules with different interfaces as well as connector types for your specific needs. You may also use them in combination for a single C320Turbo Desktop system. For example, if you need 8 RS-232 port with female DB25 connector and 8 RS-422 port with female DB25 connector, the following components should be listed in your order list.
C32010T x 1 Control board
C32020T x 1 Link cable
C32030T x 1 CPU module
C32045T x 1 8 port RS-232 extending modules with female connector
C32061T x 1 8 port RS-422 extending modules with female connector |
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| What is the difference between synchronous and asynchronous devices? |
For asynchronous device, each data byte is framed by housekeeping bits. These bits provide the synchronization to the receiving facility each time when it receives data byte. Two wires ("signal" and "ground") are enough to transmit the data. A part of data can come anytime. Asynchronous mode appeared together with the telegraphy and is successfully used up to nowadays.
During the synchronous mode either data are accompanied by the special clock signal by the separate wire, or they are encoding so as clock rate could be extracted from the receiving data. In both cases each data bit is connected to the clock signal and it comes in strictly determined time. |
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