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Product information for iPC-I 165 / iPC-I 165/PCI

1. New Version of the BootManager / Loader
There is a so-called BootManager or Loader in the flash on the iPC-I 165 ISA/PCI card Which serves to load of firmware. In the version delivered up to now the user stack was initialized with a size of 64 bytes only. The new version of the BootManager / Loader initializes the user stack with 256 bytes.

The new version is absolutely required for the VCI V2!

If you have bought the iPC-I 165 ISA/PCI after the 2001-06-11, your card has already the new version.
There are different BootManagers / Loaders for ISA and PCI version. The hardware version numbers of the iPC-I 165 with the new BootManagers / Loaders are:

For the iPC-I 165/ISA: 2.10
For the iPC-I 165/PCI: 1.30

You can check the version number of the BootManager / Loader with already installed VCI V2 as follows:

• Open Start-Settings-System Control-IXXAT
• Select iPC-I 165 or iPC-I 165/PCI card
• Click "Test"-Button

If you have an old version of the BootManager / Loader, then you will get the following error message:



You can update the BootManger / Loader using a FlashUpdate program.

You can download this program here: 

Download FlashUpdate.exe 744 kB [ click here ]

Follow these instructions to update the BootManager / Loader:

• Insert empty disk in disk drive A:
• Start FlashUpdate.exe - a DOS boot disk is set up
• Boot the computer with this disk - if the computer does not boot from this disk but from your harddisk then change the boot order in the BIOS setup to A,C
• Follow the instructions of the flash program which is started automatically
• Remove the disk
• Reboot the computer
  

2. Possible problem in combination with VCI V1.15/V1.17 ("ID 219" - Problem)

In combination with the VCI 1.15 and VCI 1.17 (all operating system versions) it is possible in certain situations that the Identifier 219hex is not received at all by the iPC-I 165 ISA / PCI.

With VCI version 2.0 and higher this problem does not appear. Other CAN interface types are also not concerned by this problem.

For the VCI version 1.x is a newer version (1.18) is in preparation.