Q. The PIO-PISO.exe program identifies PCI cards correctly, but Diag.exe and demo programs failed and show the error message "Card initialize error" or "No xxx card in this system". What's the problem ?

Ans:The PIO_PISO.EXE directly get information of devices from PCI bus controller, so it should be always no problem to list PCI cards.

But it's not enough to support all features [For example: ISR (Interrupt Service Routine) ...]  of every devices. Thus, we provide different drivers to support I/O cards, and users have to install these drivers correctly to make sure devices can work with full features.

As you can see that they works totally different. That's why the PIO_PISO.exe and Diag.exe / demo programs may have the different result.

Most of the problems may be caused by :

1. PCI card doesn't plugged well in the slot, or the slot doesn't work!

2. User doesn't finish the PnP (Plug&Play) operation correctly!

3. The related driver doesn't installed yet!

4. System resource sharing/conflict problems.

            operation to let Windows to allocate resources for these PCI cards.

            These cards can then works correctly. Please refer to "Inf\PnPInstall.pdf"

            to finish the PnP operation.
　

Note 2: Please refer to "Manual\ResCheck.pdf"  to check your system resource.

Note 3: While the card cannot be found in the system, the different OS will have

            the different behaves.
           A. Windows 9X/ME
               Loading driver OK, but failed in search card or the TotalBoards

               parameter returns 0.
           B. Windows NT/2K/XP
               Failed while loading drivers and returns Driver_Initialize_Error.

Note 4: Most of the NT drivers doesn't works under Windows 2000. Please uses

            the correct toolkit and drivers.