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- Readme file for the Windows NT Oct 92 Release of the ATI Graphics driver.
- ATI Technologies Inc. MxxNT8.ZIP February 10 1993.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SUPERCEDES ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF:
- M32NTA, M32NTB, M32NTC, M32NTD, MXXNT5, MXXNT6 MxxNT7
- Revisions (0.01), (0.02), (0.03), (0.04) (0.05) (0.06) (0.06)
- _________________________________________________________________________
-
- The Graphics device drivers supplied here are for the Oct 92 Beta Release of
- Windows NT operating system. It is required that Windows NT operating
- system is loaded onto the computer system.
-
- The drivers are in beta form and has been released with no implied warranties
- and or guarantees of functionality. Any questions or problem reports should
- be addressed to ATI Driver Development via the ATI forum on Compuserve.
-
- This version of the driver will run on these ATI Accelerator Products:
-
- Graphics Ultra Pro
- Graphics Ultra +
- Graphics Ultra
- Graphics Vantage
- 8514/Ultra
- OEM versions identifying the Mach32 ASIC or 68800 ASIC
- OEM versions identifying the Mach8 ASIC or 38800 ASIC.
-
- NOTE: This is FIRST REVISION THAT INCLUDES "VIRTUAL DRIVER SUPPORT"
- FOR MACH32 ISA PRODUCTS AND GREATER THAN 12MEG RAM
- (See Revision History)
-
- This ATI driver is a preliminary release developped by ATI programmers
- since the release of the Windows NT DDK in October 1992. It has NOT
- been through our QA process, nor optimized for speed as we wanted to get
- a driver into out customer's possession ASAP, with the hopes that it will
- be useful to you.
-
- Tell us if the driver fails to run, or there are MAJOR
- bugs that prevent you from using the driver, and ATI will correct them.
-
- Submission of problems should be addressed either
- by CompuServe @ 76004,3656 Driver Development (Go ATITECH) or
- by FAX or Letter addressed to the attention of:
-
- ATI Technologies Inc.
- 3761 Victoria Park Avenue
- Scarborough, Ontario,
- M1W 3S2, Canada
- ATTN: Driver Development
-
- OUR FAX NUMBER IS: (416) 756-0720
-
-
- ATI is working with Microsoft to have support for ATI products included
- in future releases of Windows NT SDK and DDK.
-
-
- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS -----------------------------------------
-
- Windows NT operating system is assumed to be installed in C:\WINNT.
- ATI graphics utilities (shipped with the video card), assumed to be
- already installed.
-
- This ATI driver package containing:
- - ATIMP.SYS (ATI Graphics miniport driver) *** NEW NAME ***
- - ANTPANEL.EXE (Configuration program for the driver)
- - INPORT.SYS (Bus Mouse driver)
- - ATIEO.DLL (no aperture driver)
- - FRAMEBUF.DLL (aperture driver)
- - This README file
-
- Procedure:
- 1. Copy the ATIMP.SYS driver to the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM\DRIVERS directory.
- Copy the *.DLL drivers to the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM directory.
- Delete C:\WINNT\SYSTEM\DRIVERS\68800.SYS (if updating)
-
- 2. Copy the Windows NT ANTPANEL.EXE configuration program to a directory
- which is contained in your Windows NT PATH environment variable.
-
- 3. If your ATI Graphics card does not include a mouse port
- or if you are using a pointing device not connected to the ATI adapter,
- proceed to step 5.
-
- 4. Read Mouse.txt to see if you require the ATI mouse driver.
-
- 5. Restart Windows NT.
- Windows NT will start up in 640x480, 16 colour VGA mode. This is normal.
-
- 6. From the Program Manager, run ANTPANEL.EXE. Select the resolution and
- colour depth you want to use, then click on the "OK" button. Your
- selections will take effect after you shut down and restart Windows NT.
-
-
- Revision History -----------------------------------------
-
- Version 0.08 (MXXNT8.ZIP)
- Fixes - Gateway DX2-66 timing problem resulting in garbage graphics screens.
-
- Version 0.07 (MXXNT7.ZIP)
- Fixes - Only Bottom is screen is drawn correctly on some Graphics cards.
-
- Version 0.06 (MXXNT6.ZIP)
-
- Fixes - 800 by 600 garbage screen on Graphics Ultra Pro and Graphics Ultra+.
- - 8514/Ultra not found error.
- - Text characters larger than 24 points display reliably.
-
- Now supports 1280x1024 resolution on ATI graphics cards capable of
- displaying this resolution.
- *** NEW Driver name, 68800.SYS is now called ATIMP.SYS to reflect
- its support for many ATI graphics cards.
- ANTPANEL.EXE allows the ATI driver to be disabled, use the Advanced Button.
-
- Version 0.05 (MXXNT5.ZIP)
- Now supports all ATI accelerator families of graphics cards. This is
- detected automatically at boot up time of Windows NT.
- These resolutions are supported if the aperture is NOT available
- (ie 8514/Ultra, Graphics Ultra, Graphics Vantage and Graphics Ultra Pro in
- a 16 megabyte ISA bus):
- 640 by 480 in 256 colors
- 800 by 600 in 256 colors
- 1024 by 768 in 256 colors
-
- Version 0.04 (M32NTD.ZIP)
- Fixes
- GARBAGE Screen on Startup of Graphics Mode -- Some adapters have a
- hardware combination that was not being initialized properly.
-
-
- Version 0.03 (M32NTC.ZIP)
- New Features for resolution and color depth (if capable)
- 640 by 480 in 8 and 16 bits per pixel
- 800 by 600 in 8 and 16 bits per pixel
- 1024 by 768 in 8 and 16 bits per pixel
- 1280 by 1024 in 8 bits per pixel
- where 8 bpp is 256 colors,
- 16 bpp is 65535 colors
- 24 bpp is 16.7 million colors
-
- Version 0.02 (M32NTB.ZIP)
- Fixes
- WRONG COLORS -- Adapters using the ATI 68830 DAC will now display a
- correct palette.
-
-
-
- KNOWN PROBLEMS -----------------------------------------
-
- Mouse Problems -- see mouse.txt
-
- ---------------------------------
-
- What to do if Windows NT "hangs" at the Win NT "Blue Screen" with the
- ATI graphics device drivers.
-
- These drivers ONLY work with the October Beta Release.
-
- Ensure FRAMEBUF.DLL and ATIEO.DLL are in the \WINNT\SYSTEM directory
- that Windows NT Boots from. Do you have More than one WIN NT Installed?
- Is your directory name where NT installed different than WINNT?
-
- Is the aperture enabled where System Memory is Located?
- To verify where the aperture is located do this:
- BOOT DOS
- execute the ATI utility C-INFO.EXE or 8-INFO.EXE, this will tell
- you about the Memory Aperture and the Card Configuration.
- Use the INSTALL.EXE program to modify the aperture settings.
-
- Is the computer system CMOS "shadowing the BIOS with RAM"?
- Is the CMOS Caching the Video BIOS at C0000-C7000?
- Disable both of these. This can cause Windows NT to hang in a
- Black Screen, or fail to Reboot completely.
-
- Does it work if the ANTPANEL.EXE is used to select 1024x768 256 colors, or
- 640x480 256 colors?.
- Disable the ATI driver by renaming \winnt\system\drivers\ATIMP.SYS to
- something like ATIMP.ATI. Reboot, will get VGA. Run ANTPANEL.EXE, rename
- driver to ATIMP.SYS and restart WIN NT.
-
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-
- How to UNinstall the ATI Windows Device Driver. There are TWO ways to do
- this without reinstalling Windows NT.
-
- ONE method is:
- CD \winnt\system\drivers
- ren ATIMP.sys ATIMP.ati
- Windows NT looks for *.SYS drivers at boot time, if it cannot find it,
- it cannot use it.
-
- SECOND method is:
- While running Windows NT, execute the ANTPANEL.EXE program.
- Select Advanced Button, Driver Status to Disabled.
- Exit the program
-
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-
-
- Trademarks:
- Graphics Ultra Pro and Graphics Ultra Plus are trademarks of
- ATI Technologies Inc. IBM and MicroChannel are trademarks of
- International Business Machines Corporation.
- Windows NT and MS-DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
-