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Trouble Shooting Guide .......................... Windows95 - Configuration
SPEA V7 series                                               Release 0795.7
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Dear user,

the following text contains hints, tricks and solutions for common
problems and requests.
Many of them came from other users in the field. We would like to thank
them for their contributions.

IMPORTANT NOTE
Please also check the references to driver updates and to
system-configurations in the respective help file.

Yours sincerely
                the Support-Team of SPEA SOFTWARE AG


Windows95 beta - Configuration
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Questions                                                         !.Answers
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Are final Windows95 drivers available ?                           !.G1.G9

How to install the drivers ?                                      !.G2

The graphics board isn't properly initialized by the driver ?     !.G3

Speed loss when using the screensaver Science?                    !.G10

Low performance under Windows95?                                  !.G11

The graphics board is detected by Windows95 but the drivers
don't offer resolutions higher than 640x480 ?                     !.G3

The selected S3 driver does not work well ?                       !.G4

Corrupted icons are displayed ?                                   !.G5

High refresh rates not available ?                                !.G6

Characters are not correctly displayed, pixel-artefacts,
missing pixels ?                                                  !.G7

System hangs using the DOS box, the DOS-Prompt doesn't show ?     !.G8

Problems with the DOS box under Windows 95?                       !.G9

Ref: VEGA PLUS and VEGA VIDEO don't allow resolutions             !.G9
higher than 640*480 to be set up, although
V7SETUP offers these.



Windows95 - Configuration
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G1  Important note:
    This Win95 driver has been developed and tested with Windows95(Beta) 
    "Built 440-480". All earlier and later versions of Windows95(Beta)
    may cause problems with this driver.
    A final release of the driver will be available when Microsoft will
    deliver the first official release of Windows95.
    
    For the SPEA V7 boards with S3 chipset are special Windows95 drivers
    available: SPEA BigWin95 (Mailbox, CompuServe)
    Other SPEA V7 boards:
    Please  install the respective Microsoft driver or the SPEA BigWin
    driver for Windows 3.x

G2  V7 S3 boards: To install the BigWin95 use V7SETUP only!

    For STORM PRO, VEGA PLUS, VEGA PRO, MIRAGE VL - the driver for Windows 3.x
    has to be used. Reconfigure Windows95 for standard VGA and call V7SETUP
    to install/configure BigWin.

G3  Using a graphics board with a S3 Chip please make sure that the VESA
    driver V7*VBE.EXE is already loaded (AUTOEXEC.BAT) and the variable
    GDC=... has been set.

G4  Please make sure that the correct type of graphics board was selected:
    S3 VISION864 - not S3 864 for V7-Mirage P-64.
    S3 VISION964 - not S3 964 for V7-Mercury P-64.
    The S3 801/928/964 driver can not be used for Mirage VL >>> install the
    SPEA drivers for Windows 3.x!

G5  Click with right mouse buttom onto the desktop, "Properties"/"Display",
    select in list "image" "symbol", change the size under (i.e. 32 to 40),
    select "save" and change back to 32.
    Now the icons will be displayed correctly, up to the next change of the
    resolution.

G6  The refresh rate of the driver in Windows95 is defined by the monitor
    selection/configuration.
    If you use the SPEA BigWin driver the refresh rate can be configured with
    the V7SETUP utility.

G7  SYSTEM.INI - [car1k.drv] - set CHIPSYNC=1.

G8  This function is not supported by the current SPEA Windows 3.x driver 
    under Windows95.

G9  There are a number of different versions of the Beta Windows 95
    software which we were not able to test all of. Some of these builds
    operate in different ways with the databank. Please make sure that you
    are using version (build) 4.00.440 or higher! To check your version,
    click the right mouse button over the 'Desktop' icon, select the item
    'Properties' and check the version number stated under System Microsoft 
    Windows 95 4.00.xxx.
    Both BigWin95 and the Win95 drivers for V7-VEGA PLUS and V7-VEGA VIDEO
    were only tested with Win95 builds 440 ... 480 and released exclusively
    for these. If you have problems then you must obtain the stated beta
    versions (see above).

    Note:
    Microsoft is offering a patch for the Windows Beta Release Build 347
    (= March Beta, 'M8'. This resolves the following problem, which only
    occurs with build 347:
    - BigWin95 driver: DOS box problem (V7- S3 boards).
    - V7-VEGA PLUS: resolution change in V7SETUP not possible.
    The patch is available in the SPEA Mailbox (file: VDD.ZIP).

G10 Thsi occurs exclusively with BigWin95 v1.00 and the screensaver
    Science (all other screensavers function correctly). This bug will be
    corrected with the final release of Windows 95.
    
G11 See the SYSTEM.INI file and change under [CAR1K.DRV] the option 
    BASEADDRESS= to 1, 2 or 3 (for 8/16/32 MB system memory)
        
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