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- ║ Windows 3.1 Drivers ║
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- ║ SPEA V7-MIRAGE ║
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- ║ BigWin Drivers v1.41 ║
- ║ V7SETUP v1.55 ║
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- Standard Installation
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- Exit Windows and start the program SETUP from the windows directory,
- choose at DISPLAY "Others", insert the new disk in the corresponding
- drive and press RETURN. Now follow the instructions given by the
- Windows SETUP program.
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- Quick Installation
- ------------------
- Only if you use the standard VGA driver:
- Start Windows and choose at the Program Manager:
- PROGRAM-RUN
- and type B:\V7SETUP.
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- How To Update An Older SPEA BigWin Driver
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- 1) Exit Windows.
- 2) Delete the following files from the windows 3.1 system directory:
- \\Windows\system\ bigwS3*.drv
- \\Windows\system\ S3*.drv
- and from the windows directory the files:
- \\Windows\ V7*.*
- 3) Proceed now as mentioned in the part "Standard Installation".
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- Note: The BigWin driver uses VESA in some resolutions modes as well.
- ===== So, if VESA support is required, a small memory resident program
- should be executed.
- Install the MIRAGE utilities (from disk 1 of x).
- OR:
- Copy from this disk 'Drivers for Windows' the program V7MIRVBE.EXE
- on your harddisk and insert the program call in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file.
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- ║ SPEA V7 V7SETUP: Tips / Known Limitations ║
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- 1) During first installation the driver will be installed with the
- lowest possible refresh rate at the chosen resolution.
- If you use a high-class multi-sync monitor and you choose a
- resolution 1024x768 and above, synchronisation problems may occur.
- To prevent this, please choose at first the resolution
- 640x480. Afterwards you can change to the preferred resolution and
- refresh rate with the utility V7SETUP, witch appears automatically
- after starting Windows.
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- 2) While installing the Windows drivers, you may be prompted for the
- "V7-MIRAGE Driver for Windows disk" and the drive A:\ will be
- displayed. When this happens, enter "B:\" if this diskette is in the
- B: drive.
- If "Problem with disk drive A:" message is displayed, and the
- installation disk is in drive B:, press ESC twice, and re-enter "B:"
- in the space provided.
- The cause for these inquiries is a Microsoft WINDOWS routine.
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- 3) Installing graphical drivers for Windows and Virus Check Programs
- Virus check programs, such as the DOS 6.0 internal one, which search
- for changes at *.exe and *.com files, detect changes at the file
- win.com after installing the SPEA V7 BigWin driver. This is not a
- virus, because while installing the driver, driver supplements will
- be saved in this file.
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- ║ SPEA V7 BigWin Driver : Known Limitations ║
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- 1) The SPEA V7 BigWin Driver may not be used in 80286 based
- systems.
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- 2) VDD limitation: Cannot execute any VGA graphics modes in a
- windowed mode. The XGA driver supplied by Microsoft has a similiar
- limitation.
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- 3) True Color:
- If you use more than 15 icons in one program group, a message will
- tell you that not all symbols are converted correctly. These symbols
- will be displayed in black. This is caused by a Microsoft Program
- Manager limitation.
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- 4) True Color und High Color drivers have problems writing texts
- in the application Picture Publisher.
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- 5) CorelDraw - you may possibly encounter a problem when creating a
- color flow in an object, when the flow angle is not vertical or
- horizontal. Black lines may appear in the color flow. This problem
- has occasionally appeared with 256 and High Color modes.
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- 6) In 16 bit or 24 bit color modes display errors may occur within
- big images in various programs.
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- 7) To upgrade the V7-MIRAGE board to 2 MB and to work with the
- drivers that are delivered with this superdisk is not advisable,
- because in this case all resolutions with 64 k colors and the
- resolution 1152*870 with 256 colors do not work proper.
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- If you have problems with icons (corrupted) or the first letter
- of an active window is corrupted then check your SYSTEM.INI,
- header [CAR1K.DRV] and change the flag
- CHIPSYNC=0
- to CHIPSYNC=1.
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