about installation ab 1784KTX card

Hi all,

I can not be finished to install 1784KTX card on the PC which have one ISA slot, who can tell me how to install it step by step.

RTFM

Get the User Manual first.

http://www.ab.com/manuals/cn/17846522.pdf

Then read the Knowledgebase article G16306

More information about exactly where your installation and commissioning procedure fails to complete would be helpful.

This problem is probably specific to your PC and your card, so it's a tough one to troubleshoot without a lot of information.

I remember I just pluged the card in the slot, then install its driver, you may download the driver from www.ab.com then restart
pc. You may check the connection between the pc and the card by checking the system in the control panel.

A-B has built several different versions of Data Highway Plus interface cards for PC's since the network was introduced about 20 years ago. Generically these are referred to as "KT" cards.

1784-KT is an 8-bit ISA card
1784-KTX is a 16-bit ISA card
1784-PKTX is a PCI card

The PKTX uses a "plug and play" driver for Windows OSes that support that feature.

But for the 1784-KT and KTX, you must set a memory location and an interrupt via DIP switches, then match those settings in RSLinx. There is no driver other than RSLinx.

Setting up ISA cards and memory locations and interrupts is a bit of a lost art since the advent of PCI and plug-and-play in the last 7 years. That's why there is a good Knowbase document describing the basics of using those settings with the 1784-KT and KTX cards.