2. Installation

2.1 Hardware installation

• ECG device to connect to the USB port
• Standard USB cable (A-B 4.5 m)
• Patient cable

Operating system: Windows® 98SE, ME, 2000, XP. (Caution: full USB support by operating system is required [Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 doesn’t support USB]. The device does operate on Windows NT 4.0 server, if there is a client computer on the network that’s operating system supports USB.). The program is a true 32-bit application and runs stable on all listed operating systems.

The ECG device is connected to the computer using a standard USB cable shipped with the device. The cable has two different connectors, one that fits into the device and the other into the computer. The operating system of the computer automatically recognizes the ECG, whereupon the yellow LED on the device lights up in 10-12 seconds. When the online monitoring is started in the Cardiax program the LED starts blinking due to the data transmission.

2.2 Software installation

• Turn on the computer.
• After starting Windows place the installation CD labelled Cardiax into the drive.
• If the automatic insert notification is enabled, the Cardiax installer will auto-start. Otherwise browse to the root folder of the CD-ROM and execute the installer file.

• Choose the destination directory. If there is a previous version already installed, we recommend that the new version be installed to the same directory. In this case the new version will automatically use the previous database. Choose the language. After successful installation Cardiax can be started by clicking on the following icon, or by launching "wincrx32.exe".