5.1.1. Initiating the Intel® Dialogic® System

To start the Intel® Dialogic® System, click the Start Service option from the Service pull-down menu or click the Start Service icon on the Dialogic Configuration Manager (DCM) Main Window (Figure 25).

Figure 25. Start the Intel Dialogic System

You also have the option of selecting the Start Devices Preference option (Figure 26). This allows you to select from two modes:

• Start All Device(s) or Start None - starts all the boards in the system or does not start any boards.
• Start Selective (Good Devices Only) - starts only those boards that the system considers good.

Figure 26. Start Devices Preference

It may take several minutes for the Intel® Dialogic® System to start. DCM displays a progress bar in the upper right corner of the screen during the wait time. When the Intel® Dialogic® System starts, the Intel Dialogic System Service Status indicator at the bottom of the DCM Main Window indicates Running.

The progress bar is normally displayed until the Intel® Dialogic® System is started. However, when connected to a remote node, for example, the time to download boards and start the Intel® Dialogic® System could be extended because of network latency. If the progress bar is no longer displayed but the Intel® Dialogic® System Service Status indicator does not indicate the Running state yet, this does not necessarily indicate a problem. Click the Refresh icon on the DCM Main Window periodically to update the Intel® Dialogic® System Service Status indicator. Eventually, it should indicate Running. If not, check the Windows Event Viewer to see if an error occurred.

You cannot start the Intel® Dialogic® System while all the boards are disabled. Also, you should not start the Intel® Dialogic® System Service from the Windows Control Panel.

If you need to detect devices, use the DCM Action pull-down menu options or the Control Panel to stop the Intel® Dialogic® System and initiate device detection.

Note: When scanning the PCI bus, Windows 2000 uses an inf file to correlate a discovered device with a driver binary file that would be loaded for the scanned device. In this case, you need to direct the system to the inf file. The inf file makes the system aware of the name and manufacturer of the Intel® Dialogic® board. The inf file also keeps track of the device in the device manager.

If you don't point the system to the inf file, a Found New Hardware Wizard will appear every time you reboot the computer. Refer to the procedure in Section 5.6.4, Installing a DM3 PCI or CompactPCI Board on a Windows 2000 System.

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