Installing The Blue Heat
- Go to Start → Settings → Control Panel → Network Settings.
- Click on the Adapters tab.
- Click the Add button.
- A list of adapters will come up.
- Click on the Have Disk button.
- Type in the location of the driver (i.e. A:\WinNT) and click OK.
- Select the Blue Heat/PCI from the list and click OK.
- The Blue Heat/PCI hardware will now be installed.
- When the Advanced Settings properties show up, you can change the starting port number, and then click Apply and Exit or Cancel if no changes were made.
- Reboot the computer when prompted.
Finding The Driver Version
For troubleshooting purposes it is often important to determine which device driver version is being used. Many problems may be corrected by simply installing an updated device driver on your system.
- Go to Start → Settings → Control Panel → Blue Heat.
- The driver version number is shown on the bottom of the Blue Heat applet (i.e. 2.XX).
Changing COM Port Mapping
You can change com port mapping in two ways:
1. Changing COM port mapping for all ports:
- Go to Start → Settings → Control Panel → Blue Heat.
- In the First Port edit box, enter the starting number for the Blue Heat ports to use.
2. Changing COM port mapping for individual ports:
- Go to Start → Settings → Control Panel → Blue Heat.
- Click on the Advanced button.
- A list of all of the Blue Heat ports are displayed in a drop down list.
- To change a COM port number, select the port you wish to change from the drop down list.
- In the COM Number Override text field, enter the new COM port number you want to use.
- Click OK.
- Click Apply and Exit.
Uninstalling the Blue Heat
- Go to Start → Settings → Control Panel → Network Settings.
- Click on the Adapters tab.
- Select the Blue Heat from the list.
- Click the Remove button.
- Reboot the computer when asked.
Testing the Newly Installed Ports
You can perform a simple loopback test with a terminal program (i.e. HyperTerminal or SerialTest) and a loopback connector to ensure that the newly installed ports are functioning.
Connect the loopback connector to the port you want to test and run HyperTerminal. When you type a character, you should see it on the screen, which means that the port is working. If you remove the loopback connector, the characters that you type should not appear on the screen.