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- miro.plus high-speed drivers - Install Disk
- for Windows NT (tm) Version 4.0 operating system
- 23-Oct-96
-
- miro Computer Products AG
- Carl-Miele-Str. 4, D-38112 Braunschweig
- P.O.Box 3452, D-38024 Braunschweig
- Phone (+49) (0)531 / 2113-0
- Fax (+49) (0)531 / 2113-99
- Hotline (+49) (0)531 / 2113-666
-
-
- Windows NT is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
-
- NOTE:
- The drivers on the disk have been developed for "Windows NT
- Workstation Version 4.0" (build 1381). Compatibility
- with other versions of Windows NT version is not guaranteed.
-
-
- 1.) Disk contents
- 2.) miroTWINFACE dual-screen configuration
- 2.1.) Supported boards
- 2.1.1.) With miroTWINMODULE 10
- 2.1.2.) With miroTWINMODULE 20
- 2.1.3.) With miroTWINMODULE 40
- 2.2.) Hardware installation
- 2.3.) Driver installation
- 2.4.) miro Monitor Select - Control Panel extension
- 2.5.) Changing the resolutions
- 2.6.) miro Video Address - Control Panel extension
- 2.7.) Positioning windows
- 2.7.1.) through Windows NT 4.0
- 2.7.2.) miroTWINFACE control - Program for positioning windows
- 2.7.3.) miroTWINFACE control - Control Panel Extension
- 3.) Deleting drivers
- 4.) In case of problems
- 5.) Special hint
-
-
- 1.) Disk contents
-
- - README.TXT : Instructions (this file)
- - LIESMICH.TXT : Instructions German
- - OEMSETUP.INF : Installation script for SETUP program
- - MIRO. : File for disk identification
- - CRYSTAL2.CPL : Control Panel extension (for miro Monitor Select and
- miroTWINFACE control)
- - MLINADDR.CPL : Control Panel extension (for miro Video Address)
- - MTWINCON.EXE : miroTWINFACE control - program
- - MTWINDLL.DLL : dynamic link library for miroTWINFACE control
- - CARD****.INI : board specific configuration files
- - MONITOR.INI : configuration file
- - TIMING.INI : configuration file
- - MIROHW.INI : configuration file
- - MIRONAME.INI : configuration file
- - CRYSTAL2.SYS : Miniport driver
- - CRYSTAL2.DLL : Display driver
-
-
- 2.) miroTWINFACE dual-screen configuration
-
- 2.1.) Supported boards
-
- 2.1.1.) With miroTWINMODULE 10
-
- 8 Bit (256 colors) / 15 Bit (32k colors) / 16 Bit (65k colors) :
-
- - miroCRYSTAL 40SV twin
- - miroCRYSTAL 20SV twin
- - miroCRYSTAL 20SD twin
- - miroCRYSTAL 22SD twin
-
-
- 2.1.2.) with miroTWINMODULE 20
-
- 8 Bit (256 colors) / 15 Bit (32k colors) /
- 16 Bit (65k colors) / 32 Bit (16,7M colors) :
-
- - miroCRYSTAL 40SV twin
- - miroCRYSTAL 20SV twin
- - miroCRYSTAL 20SD twin
- - miroCRYSTAL 22SD twin
-
-
- 2.1.3.) with miroTWINMODULE 40
-
- - miroCRYSTAL 44SV twin
-
-
- 2.2.) Hardware installation
-
- Install your graphics board as described in the Hardware Manual
- supplied with your board. To use miroTWINFACE with two monitors
- having different technical data, connect the monitor with the
- lower resolution to the daughterboard. Connect the second monitor
- to the basic board. If you have two monitors with identical
- technical data, you do not have to connect them as described
- above. The monitor connected to the daughterboard displays the
- boot messages and the fullscreen DOS prompt. Make sure that DIP
- switch 2 is not set to ON.
-
- It is assumed that the monitor connected to the daughterboard
- is located on the right-hand side of your desktop and the
- monitor connected to the basic board on the left-hand side.
- This allocation can be redefined as described under 2.4.d).
- We recommend this arrangement, however, for monitors with
- different technical data, because then the icons for minimized
- programs are always located at the bottom on the left-hand
- side in the visible screen area.
-
-
- 2.3.) Driver installation
-
- It is required that you have installed Windows NT 4.0 with a
- graphics driver for your VGA board.
-
- a) By using the Icon "My Computer", you can start the "Control Panel"
- program..
-
- b) Start the "Display-Tool". Switch to the "Settings" section.
-
- c) Please choose the "Change Display Type" button.
-
- d) The "Display Type" window offers an overview of the currently
- active Display Driver. Please activate the "Change..."-button.
-
- e) In the "Select Device" offers you an overview of all display
- drivers supplied with your Windows NT 4.0 Installation. Please
- select the "Have Disk..."-button.
-
- f) In the "Install from Disk" window, please choose the driver and
- directory containing your installation software. You can search
- your drivers by using the "Browse"-button. Only files with the
- filename extension ".inf" are displayed. The file you have to
- look for is named "mirotwin.inf".
-
- g) After selecting the proper file, you choose the installed graphics
- board from the "Change Display" window. Select your board and
- press "OK" or doubleclick the appropriate entry in the list.
-
- h) Select "YES" in the "Third-party Drivers" messagebox.
- The driver files are now being copyied to your harddisk.
-
- i) Close the "Display Type" and the "Display Properties" windows and
- reboot the computer.
-
- j) After the restart the driver which has just been installed
- is active with the lowest resolution (31 kHz VESA monitor:
- 640 x 480, 256 colours, 60 Hz). Go on with 2.4.) to select a
- monitor and with 2.5.) to change the resolution.
-
- If problems occur with the display driver when restarting
- the system, you can reselect the VGA driver by using the
- "Windows NT Version 4.0 [VGA mode]" option in the boot menu.
- If this doesn`t solve the problem use the "last good menu"
- option to reselect the old configuration.
-
- If your system uses another display driver, you need the installation
- disk to enable the miro driver again.
-
-
- 2.4.) miro Monitor Select - Control Panel extension
-
- a) By using the Icon "My Computer", you can start the "Control Panel"
- program..
-
- b) To select the monitors, start the "miro Monitor Select"-Tool.
-
- c) The titles consists of the name of your graphics board or your
- miroTWINMODULE which is assigned to the left/right monitors.
-
- d) If the boards are not assigned to the correct monitor, you
- can change this setting using the "Boot messages on left
- monitor" / "Boot messages on right monitor buttons. Select
- the monitor on which the boot messages appeared. After
- changing the setting, the titles are updated according to
- 2.4.c). Also, the resolution list may change according to
- 2.4.f).
-
- e) Select your monitor from the "Monitor" list. If your monitor
- is not listed, select the monitor from the "Multi Frequency"
- monitors with the frequency which comes close to the frequency
- of your monitor.
-
- f) After a short while you see the "Available Resolutions" list
- which gives you an overview of all resolutions supported by
- your monitor and the horizontal and vertical refresh rates.
- Please make sure that you do not select a horizontal scan
- frequency which is higher than the horizontal scan frequency
- of your monitor.
-
- g) To avoid loading the miroTWINFACE driver, press the "disable
- miroTWINFACE" button. If you disabled the "Disable current
- driver" button, the driver running before (e.g. miroCRYSTAL
- (single-screen) ) or the VGA driver is activated.
-
- h) To confirm your selection, click "OK".
-
- i) In the "Monitor Settings Change" window you can restart your
- computer immediately by pressing the "Restart Now" button.
- You can also click the "Don't Restart Now" button to get back
- to the "Control Panel" program. Restart the system using the
- taskbar.
-
- j) After the restart the selected monitors are active. If the
- resolutions and refresh rates differ from the settings of
- the previous monitor, the system will notify you. Then, the
- 640 x 480 resolution with 256 colors and 31 kHz / 60 Hz is
- enabled for both screens. To change the resolution, proceed
- with 2.5.).
-
- k) Instad of proceeding as described under h), you can abort the
- tool by pressing the "Cancel" button. In this case, the settings
- you made will not be enabled.
-
- PLEASE NOTE:
- The "miro Monitor Select" icon is only available in the
- "Control Panel" program, if a driver installed from this disk
- is currently active.
- If you disabled the miroTWINFACE driver under 2.4.g), the
- miroMONITOR-Select program for the single-screen operation receives
- another button which activates miroTWINFACE. For the single-screen
- and the dual-screen operation the monitors have to be configured
- individually. There is no synchronisation between both installations.
-
-
- 2.5.) Changing the resolutions
-
- a) By using the Icon "My Computer", you can start the "Control Panel"
- program..
-
- b) Start the "Display" tool to select/change the video display.
-
- c) The "List All Modes" button lists the resolutions your
- board and your monitor support and the number of colours
- and frequencies. Double-click to select a resolution.
-
- PLEASE NOTE:
- For miroTWINFACE for Windows NT version 4.0 the horizontal
- resolutions are added, the vertical resolution is the
- maximum resolution of the basic board. If this resolution
- is higher than the maximum vertical resolution of the
- daughterboard, the remaining screen area is displayed
- virtually, the workspace can be moved by moving the mouse
- cursor toward the upper or the lower screen margin. The
- selected frequency refers to the monitor connected to the
- basic board. Detailed information for both monitors you will
- receive from the "miro Monitor Select" program.
-
- d) You can also use the "Desktop area" slider, the
- "Color Palette" and the "Refresh Frequency" windows to
- select a resolution. Keep in mind that the settings are
- interdependent. If you select an invalid setting, the
- other options change so that a valid setting is restored.
-
- e) To check the selected resolution in a testscreen, click
- the "Test" button and confirm.
-
- - Is the selected resolution/frequency displayed on both
- monitors?
- - Is the specified resolution the resolution of the visible
- screen area?
- - Are the arrows in the margins of the testscreen visible?
- (In the virtual mode the arrows are not visible on the
- monitor connected to the daughterboard.)
- - Are the coloured and the hatched areas displayed correctly?
-
- f) After five seconds the testscreen disappears and you see the
- workspace again. If the resolution on the testscreen is OK,
- confirm the "Testing Mode" window with "Yes".
-
- g) You can restart the computer immediately by clicking "Restart Now"
- in the "Display settings change" window. You can also click the
- "Don┤t Restart Now" button to go back to the "Display type" window.
- To close this window click "Close". To close the "Display settings"
- window click "OK". Use the Program Manager to restart the system.
-
- h) After the restart the new resolution is active.
-
- i) If you do not like the resolution, click "No" in the "Testing Mode"
- window. After another message has appeared, you are back in the
- "Display Settings" window. Select another resolution and continue
- with e) or close the Display Tool by clicking the "Cancel" button.
-
- The "Font Size" window allows you to select another font size
- (see d)). If you have not installed the fonts of the selected
- size, you are requested to insert the installation disk under
- A:\. Overwrite the default with the drive letter of you CD drive
- and enter the path \i386. Insert the Windows NT Version 4.0 CD
- in your CD drive so that the required files can be copied to your
- hard disk.
-
-
- 2.6.) miro Video Address (Control Panel extension)
-
- To accelerate the image output even more, activate the linear
- video addressing function. For this purpose an extension of the
- Control Panel is installed during the installation. Open the
- Control Panel Program and click the "miro Video Address" icon
- to configure the linear video address,
-
- PLEASE NOTE:
- Keep in mind that problems may occur with motherboards which
- do not decode the addresses completely and in case of address
- conflicts with other memory-mapped expansion boards or with
- the main memory.
-
- PLEASE NOTE:
- For the driver for Windows NT 4.0 and a computer with PCI bus
- your system activates this option automatically. If any problems
- occur with your motherboard (e.g. older motherboards with PCI
- bus and Vesa Local bus), disable this option. All other
- adjustments of this tool will be ignored by the driver.
-
- Use the "Linear Video Addressing enabled" and the
- "Linear Video Addressing disabled" buttons to switch the
- linear video addressing function on/off:
-
- - "Linear Video Addressing enabled" switches this option on.
- Then the video memory of the graphics board is unsegmented
- and can be accessed by the display driver under the address
- specified under "Physical address".
-
- - "Linear Video Addressing disabled" switches this option off
- (default setting).
-
- The linear video address is specified under "Physical address".
- This address can be overwritten with a hexadecimal value. Make
- sure that the new address is aligned with 8 MB (example of
- sequence of increasing addresses: 7400.000 - 7480.000 - 7500.0000).
- (Default setting: fe00.0000)
-
- Use the arrow buttons beside the display window to increase /
- decrease the video address in 8 MB steps.
-
- The "Reset" button enables the default settings.
-
- Confirm your settings by clicking "OK" and close the
- "configuration of linear video address". The settings take
- effect after the computer has been restarted. If the address
- you entered is not aligned correctly, you cannot close the
- window using the "OK" button. Correct the setting or click
- "Cancel" to abort.
-
- If problems occur with the display driver when restarting
- the computer, start the system with another driver as
- described under 2.3) and switch the linear video
- addressing function off.
-
- PLEASE NOTE:
- The "miro Video Address" icon is only available in the "Control Panel"
- program, if a driver installed from this disk is currently active.
-
-
- 2.7.) Positioning windows
-
- 2.7.1.) through Windows NT 4.0
-
- Windows NT 4.0 has the capability to align windows.
-
- When clicking the Maximize button the window is maximized to
- a size which is determined by the virtual resolution of the
- smaller monitor which is connected to the base board. Maximized
- and normally sized windows can be moved independently of each
- other, the system always remembers their last position. Dialog
- boxes appear on one of both monitors.
-
- By default, this option is switched off. It can be switched on
- as described under 2.7.3.).
-
- NOTE:
- In case of incompatibilities with apllications you use, you
- cannot use this option.
-
-
- 2.7.2.) miroTWINFACE control - Program for positioning windows
-
- Along with the miroTWINFACE drivers, a program for controlling
- the window positions is copied to your hard disk. This program
- extends the possibilities for positioning windows the driver
- offers. When this program is active, dialog boxes, which
- otherwise appear on both screens. appear on the screen where
- the mouse cursor is located. When clicking on the Maximize
- button, the window is maximized on the screen, where the
- mouse cursor is currently located.
-
- Add the "MTWINCON.EXE" program which is located in the
- "WINNT\SYSTEM32" directory using the Drag and Drop function
- of the Explorer to one of your program groups. If you
- include the program in the Autostart group, the program is
- active immediately after you have logged in. After the program
- has been started, it is available as an icon on your desktop.
- For information on how to configure miroTWINFACE control, refer
- to 2.7.3.). To close the program, select the "Close" command
- in its system menu or log out.
-
- NOTE:
- Not all windows can be controlled by miroTWINFACE control. This
- phenomenon is inherent in the system and must not be regarded
- as a failure. In case of incompatibilities with apllications
- you use, you cannot use miroTWINFACE control.
-
-
- 2.7.3.) miroTWINFACE control - Control Panel Extension
-
- This extension is copied together with the "miro Monitor
- Select" extension. Open the Control Panel Program and click the
- "miroTWINFACE control" icon to configure miroTWINFACE control.
-
- To configure the positioning of maximized windows, select the
- "MAXIMIZE alignment" button (default = off).
-
- To configure the positioning of the dialog boxes, click on the
- "Dialog alignment" button (default = off).
-
- The "Alignment by System" button lets you switch on the Windows
- NT 4.0 alignment function (default = off).
-
- To confirm, click "OK" and close the "configuration of
- miroTWINFACE control". Now, the selected settings are saved and
- will be used by every application which will be started. To abort
- the configuration, click on "Cancel".
-
- If you changed the "Alignment by System" option, you can restart
- the system by pressing the "Restart Now" button in the "Alignment
- Settings Change". You can also go back to the "Control Panel"
- program by pressing the "Don┤t restart now" button. Restart the
- system using the Program Manager.
-
- NOTE:
- You can also use both options: the Windows NT 4.0 and the
- miroTWINFACE control alignment. In case of incompatibilities
- with other applications, one or both options cannot be used
- available.
-
-
- 3.) Deleting drivers
-
- Delete drivers you do not need anymore by enabling
- another driver using the Display Tool of the Control
- Panel program and by restarting the sytem afterwards.
- Then, use the File Manager to delete the display driver
- (extension .DLL) under \WINNT\SYSTEM32 and the
- miniport driver (extension .SYS) and the configuration
- files (extension .INI) under \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS.
-
-
- 4.) In case of problems
-
- In case of problems with the VGA DOS box in the
- fullscreen mode ask your dealer or miro for an update
- of the BIOS-ROM. In some cases an unsynchronized image
- may stabilize by switching between the window and the
- fullscreen mode of the VGA DOS box.
-
- The VGA DOS boxs only supports the resolutions
- available for a 'standard VGA', e.g. display modes of
- up to 320x200 pixels with 256 colors or 640x480 pixels
- with 16 colors. If a DOS application tries to use a
- higher resolution, the VGA DOS box, or, in the worst
- case, the hole system might crash.
-
-
- 4.) Special hint
-
- Please do not try to install drivers or system-relevant
- tools which are suited for Microsoft Windows 3.x or
- Microsoft Windows 95. Windows NT 4.0 does not support
- these drivers or tools. In the worst case, this may
- cause a system crash.
-
- - eof
-