INTRODUCTION
Product Description
With the advance of digital technologies, more and more hand-held devices employ the compact sized digital media for data storage. There are several card-sized storage media with different interface specifications available on the market. Among which the most widely used are CompactFlash? Card, IBM Microdrive?, SmartMedia? Card, Secure Digital? (SD) Card, MultiMediaCard?, Memory Stick and Memory Stick PRO.

The Internal Multi-Card Reader/Writer (or simplified as "Card Reader") is a universal card read/write device that allows you to access all those storage media as listed above without adopting any additional adapter to insert them into the device. It brings you the convenience of data transferring between your PC and other personal electronic devices. Besides to support the memory cards listed above, Card Reader is equipped with one USB port in the front of the panel for easy connection of any USB device.

Package Contents

  • Internal Card Reader/Writer

  • User's Manual
  • Microsoft Windows 98/2000 device drivers (CD-ROM)
  • 4 screws
    INSTALLATION
    Hardware Setup
    • NOTES for Windows 2000 Users:
    Please make sure that you have completed the indtallation of drivers for Windows 2000 (as described in Software Setup on page 8) before you go into hardware setup.

    Step 1. Compare the pin assignment of the provided USB cable with the assignment of USB port on motherboard.

    The provided USB cable has 9 color wires (see Figure 1), its pin assignment and corresponding wire color are shown
    in Table-1:
    Table-1:
    (a) Refer the munual of motherboard. If the pin assignment of USB port on the motherboard is the same as the assignment in Table-1, then go to Step 3.
    (b) Refer the manual of motherboard. If the pin assignment of USB port on the motherboard is different from the assignment in Table-1, then you have to reconfigure the pin assignment on the header of provided USB cable.
    For example, if the pin assignment of the USB port on the motherboard is shown as Table-2 (on page 5), then foll the steps below to reassign the pins on the header of USB cable:
    (1) Compare Table-1 with Table-2, pin 2, 4, 8, and 10 has different assignment. Therefore, three wires of provided USB cable, colored red (pin-2), white (pin-4) and black (pin-8), have to be reconfigured their position.
    (2) Use a needle to flip up the tiny plastic tab of pin 2 (red), 4 (white), 8 (black) and 10, then pull out those wires (see Figure 2). Please be cautious about this step as excessive force on flipping the tab may cause the tab to break.
    (3) Insert the pin of red wire (pin-2) into the slot 10 and press the tiny plastic tab down, that will hold the wire in its position.
    (4) Repeat step(3) for inserting the pin of white wire (pin-4) into the slot 8 and the pin of black wire (pin-8) into the slot 4.

    Figure 2
    Step 2. Mount the Card Reder into your PC:
      Card Reader comes with 2 screw holes on each side for position adjustment. Insert Card Reader into one of empty 3.5" external drive bay of your PC, align the Card Reader front panel evenly with the computer front bezel and apply screws to secure it into the place. (See Figure 3)

    Step 3. Plug the header of provided USB cable into the USB port on the motherboard.
    (See Figure 4 and Figure 5)

    Note
    The wire colored red (pin 1) needs to match the port 1 on the motherboard.
    Software Setup

    In Windows ME/XP
    Versions of Windows Me and Windows XP operating systems support drivers for the Card Reader and therefore no additional device drivers are required. After completed the hardware setup and restart your PC, 4 icons of "Removable Disk" will be displayed on the screen of "My Computer" indicating that the Card Reader is ready for use.


    In Windows 98
    1. Plug the Internal Card Reader into the USB port on your motherboard.
    2. The window of "Add New Hardware Wizard" will pop up on the screen.
    3. Locate the where the location of driver
    4. Click "Next" in the "Add New Hardware Wizard" window.
    5. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
    6. Double-click the icon of "My Computer" on the desktop; four icons of "Removable Disk" will be displayed on the screen of "My Computer" indicating that the Card Reader is ready for use.


    In Windows 2000
    Note:     DO NOT plug the Card Reader to the USB port before you start the following installation processes.

     1. Unzip the files in the ICR-A2.zip; find the program "Install.exe" under the directory of \Windows\Win2K.
    2. Double click "Install.exe" to begin the installation, the setup wizard will guide you step by step to complete the installation.
    3. Then go into the hardware setup (as described in Hardware Setup).
    4. Restart yout PC.
    5. Four icons of "Removable Disk" will be displayed on the screen of "My Computer" indicating that the Card Reader is ready for use

    NOTES for Windows 2000 Users:
    If you plug the Card Reader before installing the driver in windows 2000 and can't see four icons of "Removable Disk" is displayed on your PC. Please go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp3/sp3lang.asp to upgrade your Windows 2000 to Service Pack 3, then four "Removable Disk" will be recognized by the system.

    USING THE CARD READER
    After the Card Reader has been installed successfully, you can use it to exchange data between various memory cards and PC.

    Illustration

    Light (LED) indicators
     The LED indicators are beside the slots for each memory card. Lightening of the LED shows different operation status as follows:
  • LED On: Memory card inserts
  • LED Flashing: Tansmitting data in between computer and memory card

    Important Notice
    Please DO NOT remove the memory cards while the LED is flashing, it could result in data loss or
    other unexpected problem.

    Memory Card Slots
     There are four memory card slots located on the front side of the Card Reader. You can insert any type of memory cards listed on below to the corresponding slot for data exchange. The computer will treat those cards inserted to the card slots as "removable disks."
  • CF/Microdrive Slot: For Type I/II CompactFlash Card or Microdrive
  • Memory Stick Slot: For Memory Stick or Memory Stick PRO
  • SmartMedia Slot: For SmartMedia Card
  • SD/MMC Slot: For SD Card or MMC

    USB port
    There is one USB port located on the front side of the Card Reader. Simply plug any USB device to the port to communicate with your PC. Icon of this USB device will be displayed on the screen of "My Computer" indicating this device is connected to your PC.