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- miro.plus high-speed drivers - Install Disk
- for Windows NT (tm) Version 3.5 operating system
- Version 2.00 26-Okt-95
-
- 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 the Windows NT
- Workstation Version 3.5 (final release, build 807). Any installation
- under a beta or so-called "release candidate" Windows NT version is
- possible, but may not function properly.
-
-
- 1.) Disk contents
- 2.) Single-screen configuration
- 2.1) Supported boards
- 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
- 3.) Deleting drivers
- 4.) In case of problems
-
-
- 1.) Disk contents
-
- - README.TXT : Instructions (this file)
- - LIESMICH.TXT : Instructions German
- - OEMSETUP.INF : Installation script for SETUP program
- - MIRO. : File for disk identification
- - CRYSTALS.SYS : Miniport-(kernel)-driver (for single-screen configuration)
- - CRYSTALS.DLL : Display-(Win32)-driver (for single-screen configuration)
- - CRYSTAL2.CPL : Control Panel extension (for miro Monitor Select)
- - MLINADDR.CPL : Control Panel extension (for miro Video Address)
- - CARD****.INI : board spezific configuration files
- - MONITOR.INI : configuration file
- - TIMING.INI : configuration file
- - MIROHW.INI : configuration file
- - MIRONAME.INI : configuration file
-
-
- 2.) Single-screen configuration
-
-
- 2.1.) Supported boards
-
- 8 Bit (256 colors) / 15 Bit (32k colors) /
- 16 Bit (65k colors) / 32 Bit (16,7M colors) :
-
- - miroVIDEO 40SV ergo
- - miroVIDEO 20SV
- - miroVIDEO 20SD
- - miroVIDEO 22SD
- - miroVIDEO 22SD mvp
-
-
- 2.2.) Hardware installation
-
- Install your graphics board as described in the Hardware Manual
- supplied with your board.
-
-
- 2.3.) Driver installation
-
- It is required that you have installed Windows NT 3.5 with a
- graphics driver for your VGA board.
-
- a) In the "main" group start the "Control Panel" program.
-
- b) Start the "Display Tool" to select/change the video display.
-
- c) In the "Display Settings" window click the "Change Display Type"
- button.
-
- d) In the "Display Type" window you get information on the current
- display driver. Click the "Change" button.
-
- e) The "Select Device" window offers an overview of all display
- drivers supplied with Windows NT 3.5. Click the "Other" button.
-
- f) In the "Install From Disk" window you are requested to insert
- the installation disk "A:\". If necessary, overwrite the default
- selection. Click "OK" to confirm.
-
- g) The "Select Device" window appears again. At the end of the
- display driver list there is also the driver for your miro board.
- Select the "miroCRYSTAL / miroVIDEO (single screen)" driver for
- all boards supported by this installation disk. Click the "Install"
- button. Confirm the following warning.
-
- h) If you had already installed the driver, you are asked whether
- you want to install the old or the new driver. Start the
- installation of a new driver by clicking the "New" button.
-
- i) You are requested again to insert the installation disk
- under A:\. If necessary, overwrite the default. To confirm the
- installation, click the "Continue" button. When the message about
- a successful installation appears confirm. Confirm the message
- telling you that the driver is only available after restarting
- the computer.
-
- j) 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.
-
- k) After the restart the driver which has just been installed is
- active with the lowest resolution (640 x 480, 256 colours, 60 Hz).
- To change this setting, proceed with 2.4.).
-
- If problems occur with the display driver when restarting
- the system, you can reselect the VGA driver by using the
- "Windows NT Version 3.5 [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 this does not help either, use the Windows-NT-setup-disk/-CD
- and the "Emergency Repair Disk" to repair your system. The
- "Emergency Repair Disk" should include a configuration with a
- VGA driver "640x480, 16 colors" because your system runs properly
- with this driver in any case. To repair your system select the
- "Inspect configuration registry" and "SYSTEM (System Configuration)"
- options only.
-
- If your system uses another display driver, you need the installation
- disk to enable the "miroCRYSTAL / miroVIDEO" driver again. You can,
- however, use the driver already installed on your hard disk by
- clicking the "Current" button (see h)).
-
-
- 2.4) miro Monitor Select - Control Panel extension
-
- a) Start the "Control Panel" program from the "main" group.
-
- b) To select a monitor, start the "miro Monitor Select"-Tool.
-
- c) The title is the name of your graphics board.
-
- d) 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.
-
- e) 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.
-
- f) To confirm your selection, click "OK".
-
- g) 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
- Program Manager.
-
- h) After the restart the selected monitor is 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. To change the resolution, proceed with 2.5.).
-
- i) Instad of proceeding as described under f), 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.
-
-
- 2.5.) Changing the resolutions
-
- a) In the "main" group 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.
-
- 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 the monitor?
- - Is the correct resolution specified?
- - Are the arrows in the testscreen margins visible?
- - 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 3.5 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. This option is not available for ISA boards.
-
- 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 to defaults" 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.
-
-
- 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 \WINNT35\SYSTEM32 and the
- miniport driver (extension .SYS) and the configuration
- files (extension .INI) under \WINNT35\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.
-
- "TWIN" boards and miroTWINFACE are not yet supported
- by this diskette.
-
- - eof
-