Trident CHIP VGA: (9440,9680,9685,9750,9850,9397DVD,9880 ...) Application and driver installation for Windows 3.1(9397DVD,9880 not support) The graphic installation program (TINSTALL) supports a simple six-step installation procedure for the display driver setup program, the power management program and the UNinstall program. To use TINSTALL, follow the 6 steps below: 1.ENSURE that MS Windows 3.1x is up and running properly, using the standard VGA driver. 2.SELECT the MAIN group in Program Manager. 3.CLICK on FILE or press ALT + F 4.CLICK on RUN or PRESS R to select command line. 5.TYPE in "X:\trident\9750\win31\TINSTALL" and then PRESS ENTER. (X stands for the letter of your CD ROM drive, 9750 is your VGA model NO.) 6.A menu will appear, presenting a choice of Express or Custom Installation. Express installation is quick and decision free. Display drivers will be copied into the TRIDENT.SGI directory and Utility files will be copied into the TRIDENT.UTL directory. Once all files are copied, a program group called DISPLAY DRIVER AND UTILITIES will be created. Application and driver installation for Windows 95/98 1.ENSURE that MS Windows 95/98 is up and running properly using the Trident SVGA driver that it has detected. 2.OPEN the "My Computer" program group and SELECT the "control Panel" icon. 3.SELECT the "display" icon and then SELECT the "settings" page. 4.SELECT either the "Change Display Type" or the "Advanced Properties" selection bar, and then SELECT the "Change" button next to Adapter Type. 5.On the Select Device page, SELECT the "Have Disk" button to install the Trident display driver from Disc of CD ROM. 6.After the Have Disk button is selected, an "Install From Disk" window will appear. SELECT the "Browse" button to browse the directory "X:\Drivers\Trident\9750\WIN95\DISPLAY" of your DISC from CD ROM (where X: stands for the drive letter of your CD ROM drive in your system, 9750 is product model no). 7.Once in this directory, the file TRIDENT.INF will appear under file name list. SELECT "OK" to return to the Install From Disk window. Under the statement "Copy manufacturer files from", the line X:\Drivers\Trident\9750\WIN95 should appear. SELECT "OK" to start installing the driver files from the DISC. 8.After the files have been copied from the DISC to the hard drive, a "select device" window will appear, Under Models, the line Trident 3DImae 975x linear accelerated for PCI Vx.xx.xx" will now be listed. 9.SELECT the OK" button to close the "Select Device" window and to select the "Color Palette", "Desktop Area" and "Refresh Rate" of your choice under the Trident accelerated driver. Once the desired color palette (the number of colors), desktop area (resolution) and refresh rate have been chosen, the Windows 95/98 system will be re-started using the Trident accelerated driver. Application and driver installation for Windows NT 3.51/4.0 To install the driver for the Windows NT, Please follow the steps below: 1.SELECT the "Display" icon in control panel and then SELECT the "Settings" page. 2.SELECT "Display Type..." button in the "Settings" page. 3.SELECT "Change..." button from the Adapter type section. 4.SELECT "Have Disk..." button from the Change Display page. 5.Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 will prompt you for the correct path where the Trident drivers are located. ENTER the path "X:\Drivers\Trident\9750\NT40" (where X: is the driver of where DISC has been placed, 9750 is your VGA model no). 6.If the driver Trident Video Accelerator" is listed under the Display list, SELECT the OK" button to continue. 7.Once the driver files are copied, RESTART Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 for the changes to take effect. 8.SELECT the desired color palette (the number of colors), desktop area (resolution), and refresh frequency in the settings page of Display Properties and then SELECT the "Rest" button in the same page to determine whether your selection works properly. SELECT "Apply" to active the selected mode. Application and driver installation for OS/2 Before installing Trident display driver for the first time, the current display type has to be VGA mode. The instructions to return to VGA mode are in the Recovering from an incorrect display type selection" section of your OS/2 user manual. Trident OS/2 display driver is installed by following these simple steps. 1.PLACE the Trident OS/2 driver DISC into your CD ROM drive X:. 2.OPEN an OS/2 full-screen or OS/2 Window session under "Command Prompt" of the System folder. 3.PRESS "ALT+F1" after OS/2 shows up in the upper left hand corner, and then SELECT. 4.SWITCH the current drive to the CD ROM drive where the Trident OS/2 driver DISC was placed. 5.At the drive prompt, TYPE the following command: "X:\Drivers\Trident\9750\os2\INSTALL". The Trident LOGO will now appear and a screen that reads Trident Display Drivers Setting" will appear after that.