Copyright January 2002 by ICP DAS CO., LTD. All right reserved.

The ISaGRAF embedded driver is firmware burned into the flash 
memory of the I-8417 / 8817 / 8437 / 8837. It can be easily 
upgraded by the user.

Our newly released driver can also be obtained from the following
website.
   ftp.icpdas.com/pub/cd/8000cd/napdos/isagraf/8000/driver/  

Warning:
  The copyright of the firmware and ISaGRAF embedded driver 
  belongs to ICP DAS CO., LTD. 
  Only the I-8417, 8817, 8437 and 8837 have registered a legal 
  ISaGRAF Target license. To burn an ISaGRAF embedded driver into 
  other I-8000 controllers is absolutely illegal and may be 
  punished by law. 

Trademark:
  Products, names and trade names appeared belongs to their respective owner. 

This Document Details How To upgrade the OS & ISaGRAF driver For The I-8xx7 Embedded Controller.


Make sure of your current OS & driver version before you upgrade it. 

1. Create a file folder named "8000" in your hard drive. 
   For example, "c:\8000".

*** We use driver email_2.42 as an example in this document.

For Dos, Windows 95, 98 users:
2. Copy \Napdos\ISaGRAF\8000\Driver\email_2.42\"7188x.exe", "7188x.ini" , "isa.exe" ,  
   "autoexec.bat" & "8K031105.IMG" from the CD_ROM into your "8000" folder.
3. Run "\8000\7188x.exe" in your hard drive. A "7188x" screen 
   will appear. 

For Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP users:
2. Copy \Napdos\ISaGRAF\8000\Driver\email_2.42\"7188xw.exe", "7188xw.ini" , "isa.exe" ,  
   "autoexec.bat" & "8K031105.IMG" from the CD_ROM into your "8000" folder.
3. Run "\8000\7188xw.exe" in your hard drive. A "7188xw" screen 
   will appear (Press F1 for help). 

4. Link COM1 or COM2 of your PC to COM1 of the I-8xx7 controller 
   through a RS232 cable. 

5. Power off the I-8xx7 controller, connect pin "INIT" to "INIT COM" 
   and then power it up.

6. If the connection is Ok, messages will appear on the 7188x screen.

      ****************************************
      ****  7188x Ver. 1.01.0 02/23/2000  ****
      ***        Press F1 for help.        ***
      ****************************************
      ICP_DAS MiniOS7 for 8000-485 Ver. 1.03 build 014,May 09 2001 14:30:36
      SRAM:512K, FLASH MEMORY:512K
      Serial number= 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A
      8000>

7. Type "ver" to see the current OS version.

      8000> ver   

8. Type "isa *p=" to see the version No. of the ISaGRAF driver

      8000> isa *p=

      i-84x7/i-88x7 Driver: V1.24 , Nov.22,2001
      (C)Copyright:ICP DAS  CO. , LTD.      Taiwan Id:84517297

To upgrade an ISaGRAF embedded driver, follow the following steps. 

9. Power off the I-8xx7 controller, connect pin "INIT" to "INIT COM" 
   and then power it up.

10. The OS image should be upgraded first. Type "upload" to load the OS image
    into RAM.

      8000> upload       

    press at ALT + E and then type the image name ( for version email_2.42 - 8K031105.IMG ) 

    and then type "bios1" to save this image to Flash memory

      8000> bios1        (WAIT ABOUT 30 SEC. ***DO NOT REMOVE THE POWER IN THESE 30 SEC.*** ) 

11. Then we are going to upgrade the ISaGRAF driver.
    Type "del" and reply "y" to delete the current driver.

      8000> del
      Total File number is 2, do you really want to delete(y/n)?

12. Type "load", then press ALT_E and then type "autoexec.bat" .

      8000> load
      File will save to 8000:0000
      StartAddr-->7000:FFFF
      Press ALT_E to download file!
      Input filename:autoexec.bat
      Send file info. total 1 blocks
      Block 1
      Transfer time is: 0.329670 seconds

      Back to Terminal mode

13. Type "load" again, then press ALT_E and then type "isa.exe". 
    It will take about 55 seconds to finish.

      8000> load
      File will save to 8003:0002
      StartAddr-->8000:0031
      Press ALT_E to download file!
      Input filename:isa.exe
      Send file info. total 1070 blocks
      Block 1070
      Transfer time is: 54.505495 seconds

      Back to Terminal mode

14. Type "dir" to make sure "autoexec.bat" and "isa.exe" 
    are well burned.

      8000> dir
       0)autoexec.bat 12/18/2000 10:09:00     18[00012]8002:0000-8003:0002
       1)isa.exe      11/27/2001 18:34:02 273691[42D1B]8005:0002-C2D6:000D
      Total File number is 2  Free space=53875 bytes

15. Press ALT_X to exit "7188x".

16. Remove the connection between "INIT" - "INIT COM", reset the 
    I-8xx7 controller.