Video Driver for Matrox Video cards

 

Version

Supported Operating systems

Driver Localization

Supported Video Cards

MS certification status

Installation

Upgrade recommendation

Fixes

Known issues

Known limitations

Stability impact

 

 

 

Version

 

HP version number: MA0306

 

Matrox Driver versions:

·          Win NT4: 4.54.031 (Not a new driver)

To check the driver version: Click in control panel / Matrox display properties and on information the version appears at the right of 'Matrox PowerDesk version'.

·          Win 95 and Win98: 6.08.035

To check the driver version: Click in Start menu, Programs, Matrox Power Desk and Display Properties. Then select Information. The driver version is defined by the Matrox Power Desk Version.

·          Win2000: 5.15.037

 

 

Supported Operating systems

 

·          W2000, NT4, W9x

 

Driver Localization

 

·          Brazilian, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-traditional, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai

 

Supported Video Cards

 

This is a "unified" driver which works for all current Matrox cards.

·          Millenium G450 AGP Dual-Head 16 MB

·          Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head PCI (Millenium G450 16MB DDR DualHead HD15 PCI rev 7003)

·          Millennium G200 (Millennium G200 SD ATX rev 870)

·          Millennium G200 (Millennium G200 SD PCI rev 844)

·          Millennium G250 AGP(Millennium G250 SG NLX rev 873)

·          Matrox Millenium G400 (Millenium G400 32MB SDRAM NLX rev 846)

·           Matrox Millennium G400 Dual Head MAX (Millennium G400 Dual Head MAX 32MB SGRAM ATX rev 906)

·          Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head (Millenium G450 32MB DDR DualHead HD15 & HD15 rev 975)

 

MS certification status

 

This driver is certified by Microsoft

 

Installation

 

To install the driver

Double-click on the setup.exe icon available in the "disk1" directory and follow the procedure.

 

To uninstall the driver

In “Start/Program” select “Matrox PowerDesk NT”, then select “Matrox Power Desk NT Uninstall” and follow the procedure. This will uninstall only the Matrox applet. To uninstall the driver, you must force the OS to use VGA driver supplied by the OS.

 

Upgrade recommendation

 

·          NT4: The driver has not changed

·          Windows 2000: If you have installed an older version of this driver, it is recommended to use this driver for Windows 2000 as it fixes a serious problem. The same driver was released on this web in package QMA0305. The only difference is that this driver has been certified by Microsoft.

·          Windows 95 and 98: some bugs have been fixed

 

Fixes

 

The following bugs which existed in the previous drivers released on VL400 (Packages MA0303 and MA0206) are now fixed:

 

Windows 98

·          If the machine goes to standby mode S1, the machine hangs. This is a serious issue as some devices which do not support S3 mode automatically bring the machine back to S1 mode.

·          If the machine goes to standby mode, and an Open GL screensaver is activated, the machine hangs when coming back from suspend.

 

Windows 2000

·          When Windows 2000 starts, Matrox diagnostics reported that Direct X was not installed.

·          If the machine goes to standby mode S1, the machine hangs. This is a serious issue as some devices which do not support S3 mode automatically bring the machine back to S1 mode.

·          Mouse cursor temporary shadow when moving across border of video, OpenGL, Dx window

 

Known issues

 

Windows 95 and 98:

·          Low/medium: DX7 environment mapping demo test does not run

Win2000:

·          3Dmark2000 closes during execution (may be application issue)

·          In Japanese localization, strange characters appear during un-installation

·          If you start 3D pipe screen saver, it takes 30 seconds before preview is displayed.

 

 

Known limitations

 

·          In Windows 2000, Win 95 or Win NT4, if you use two monitors on Matrox cards with dual head, it is not possible to use different resolutions. This is only possible with Win 98

·          To allow the use of a second screen, the second monitor should be connected before booting the PC. Otherwise, the second monitor will not be detected by the video card.

Win2000:

·          video window remains black on secondary monitor. This is a hardware limitation:  back-end video acceleration is not supported on secondary monitor. Because of this, it is not possible to play a DVD movie on two monitors

·          Driver does not support DX8

 

Stability impact

 

None.