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Diamond ViperII Z200 Series
Windows NT 4.0 drivers 4.1024.900.0011
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This README file contains the following important information:
1. Important Note
2. Installation Notes
3. Installation Instructions
4. Known Issues
5. Known Limitations
1. Important Note
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Please read this README file and all the supplied documentation
BEFORE you continue the installation.
2. Installation Notes
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We recommend that you have installed Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack
5, and are running the Standard VGA driver (640x480x16 color)
before you install the Diamond ViperII Z200 NT 4.0 drivers.
If you are running a different graphics mode, please re-configure
for Standard VGA.
3. Installation Instructions
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Installation from CD:
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Place the CDROM that you received with Diamond ViperII Z200 in
your CDROM drive X: (X: being your CDROM drive letter).
If your CDROM Autostart feature is turned off, you will need to
manually go to your RUN line (Click on start/run located on your
start bar) and browse to your CD, which will guide you through
the rest of the installation.
Manual Installation via .inf:
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1. Start system with Windows NT 4.0 installed.
2. IMPORTANT: When the "Please select the operating system to
start..." message is displayed,
select "Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]".
3. From "Start", select the "Settings group", then click on the
"Control Panel" icon.
4. In the "Control Panel", double click on the "Display" icon.
5. In the "Settings" screen, click on the "Display Type..."
button.
6. From the "Display Type" screen, and in the "Adapter Type"
section, click on the "Change..." button.
7. In the "Change Display" screen, click on the "Have Disk..."
button.
8. Locate the desired .inf file on your driver CD or
elsewhere, then click on the "OK" button.
9. From the list of displayed Diamond devices, select your
Diamond device.
10. From "Third-party Drivers", click on the "Yes" button to
proceed.
11. If a message appears stating the driver is already installed
on the system, and asks if you want to use the current or
new drivers, be sure to select the "New" button.
12. If prompted for the driver files' location a second time,
click on the "Continue" button.
13. When the message "The drivers were successfully installed" is
displayed, and the drivers were loaded from a floppy
diskette, remove the display driver diskette, then
click on the "OK" button.
14. Back at the "Display Type" window, click on the "Close"
button.
15. Back at the "Display Properties" window, click on the "Close"
button.
16. When you see the "System Settings Change" window, asking if
you wish to restart your computer, click on the "Yes"
window to reboot now.
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NOTE: If installing Windows NT 4.0 with the Diamond device
already installed in the system:
Proceed through the Windows NT installation as normal.
The installation program will prompt the user to choose
a display mode. Choose the "Cancel" button from the
"Display Settings" screen to ignore this step for now.
The installation will now finish. Once Windows NT has
started for the first time, proceed to follow the steps
outlined above to install the driver for your Diamond
device.
4. Known Issues
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ICT Gamma schema resets to default when color depth is changed.
5. Known Limitations
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To uninstall the Windows NT drivers you will need to rerun the
ViperII Z200 Series install program and deselect the features
that were installed.
OpenGL is not hardware accelerated in this driver version.
InControl Tools (ICT)99:
InControl Tools 99 shortcuts require a system reboot to take
effect when running under Windows NT.
Diamond ICT99 "Internet Sites" popup requires IE3.0 or above or
Netscape Communicator 4.51 or above.
ICT will not be fully functional with COMCTRL32.DLL version
4.70 and earlier. This may impact Windows NT platforms. The
problems experienced will included :
1) The InControl Desktop Properties will not execute.
2) The InControl Desktop Manager will not execute.
To resolve this issue you can do one of the following:
1) Install a later version of COMCTRL32.DLL from the Microsoft Web
Site. It is part of a self-extracting executable (50comupd.exe)
which can be downloaded from Microsoft's webpage through the link at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q186/1/76.ASP
Download the latest version, currently select the option
"Download 50comupd.exe (x86)" 0.49 MB.
2) Install Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.
Please refer to the Diamond website www.diamondmm.com for future
updates.
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Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. (c) 1993-99, All Rights Reserved
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