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║ ║
║ SPEA WindowsNT Driver BigWinNT (256 colors) Version 2.01 ║
║ SPEA V7SETNT Version 1.04 ║
║ ║
║ for ║
║ ║
║ V7-MIRAGE ISA,VL all BIOS versions lower than 4.10 ║
║ V7-MIRAGE P-64 VL,PCI ║
║ V7-MERCURY ISA,VL ║
║ V7-MERCURY PRO ISA,VL ║
║ V7-MERCURY PCI (2MB) ║
║ V7-MERCURY Lite (PCI,1MB) ║
║ V7-MERCURY P-64 VL,PCI ║
║ ║
║ SPEA Software AG Rel. 1194.2 ║
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Important information - please read this first !!
Contents of that readme file:
- Installation informations
- V7SetNT Notes/Known restrictions
- Deinstallation of BigWinNT/V7SetNT
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║ SPEA V7 V7SETNT: Installation informations ║
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There are two possibilities how to install the WindowsNT drivers:
1) From WindowsNT SETUP program (standard installation)
2) form SPEA V7SETNT program (quick installation, update; prefered)
1) Installation from WindowsNT setup program (standard installation)
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- Run WindowsNT, loggin as "Administrator" and run the WindowsNT Setup.
- WindowsNT now displays the current system configuration.
To install the SPEA BigwinNT driver, choose 'Change System Settings' from
the 'Options' menu in WindowsNT Setup.
- Select 'Display' and scroll until
<Other> Insert disk
appears and enter the drive or path that contains the BigwinNT.
NOTE:
You can copy all files of the diskette into a directory on your harddisk
and enter the complete path to that directory instead of the drive letter.
- Select via OK the "SPEA V7 BigWinNT" driver and leave WindowsNT setup
program.
- Reboot your system. You will see while booting the SPEA/V7 startup logo.
Login again as ADMINISTRATOR
- Change in the Program Manager to File-Run menu. Insert the disk with the
SPEA V7 BigWinNT drivers once again in drive A: and enter:
A:\V7SETNT
or enter the complete path to the directory with all BIGWINNT/V7SETNT
files if you followed the NOTE.
Now the programm V7SETNT will copy itself and all neccessary software
components on your hard disk into directories \WINNT, \WINNT\SYSTEM32 and
\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS. After copy task V7SETNT will be started.
- V7SETNT will install BIGNTS3 with default settings 640*480*256 colors
press the OK button and let your system shutdown and restart.
- After rebooting you have to login again as administrator.
A new program manager group named SPEA V7 (Common) is installed.
It contains a program icon for V7SETNT. The menu of V7SETNT is
automatically coming up when you have loged in.
- Now follow the program V7SETNT analog to the description in your
documentation of the program V7SETUP. Select the resolution that you
desire. Please use also the on-line help of the V7SETNT program to get
information how to configure your system.
ATTENTION: You may damage your monitor, if you select a refresh rate which
is to high for your monitor. Please consider the abilities of
your monitor when selecting a driver and its refresh rate.
2) Installation via SPEA V7SETNT program (quick installation, update):
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- Be sure that the standard VGA driver is running on your WindowsNT system.
- Start WindowsNT and login as "Administrator".
- Change to program managers menu File-Run and enter:
A:\V7SETNT
if your floppy drive with the SPEA/V7 install diskette is in drive a:
- V7SETNT will install BIGNTS3 with default settings 640*480*256 colors,
press the OK button and let your system shutdown and restart.
- After rebooting you have to login again as "Administrator".
A new program manager group named SPEA/V7 (Common) is installed.
It contains a program icon for V7SETNT. The menu of V7SETNT is
automatically coming up when you have logged in.
- Now follow the program V7SETNT analog to the description in your
documentation of the program V7SETUP. Select the resolution that you
desire. Please use also the on-line help of the V7SETNT program to get
information how to configure your system.
ATTENTION: You may damage your monitor, if you select a refresh rate which
is to high for your monitor. Please consider the abilities of
your monitor when selecting a driver and its refresh rate.
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║ SPEA BigWinNT/V7SETNT: Tips/Known Restrictions,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 V7SETNT, which appears automatically
when starting WindowsNT after the first installation of BigWinNT.
2) Attention: Connect a mouse to your computer. V7SetNT is not a
keyboard only program. WindowsNT 3.1 does not run stable if you have
installed a mouse driver but have not connected a mouse to your
computer.
3) Run disk manager from administative tools group only in standard VGA
640*480 16 colours mode. Your system may hang if you have installed
BigWinNT 2.01.
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║ SPEA BigWinNT/V7SETNT: Deinstallation ║
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These steps are reasonable if BigWinNT does not install complete or
V7SetNT does not function correctly.
- Start WindowsNT and login as adminstrator.
- Be sure that standard VGA driver is running and not BigWinNT.
- Call program managers menu File-New-Program Item-OK-Browse
- Select in directory \WINNT\SYSTEM32 the file REGEDT32.EXE
and confirm with OK-button. A new greenish program icon appears in
the current active program managers group.
- Run REGEDT32 by double clicking the new icon with your mouse.
- The programs window appears with a menu and four new smaller windows
inside. Select the window with the title
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on local machine" by clicking the title bar with
the mouse.
- Within the left side of the split window you can see a directory
structure.
- Change to directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SPEA.
- Press the Del-key and confirm with YES.
Through it you delete that path from the registry.
- Change to directory
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\bignts3.
- Press the Del-key and confirm with YES.
This deletes that path from the registry.
- Leave the registry program through its menu item File-Exit.
- Run the file manager from main program manager group.
- Change to directory \WINNT.
- Delete the three files V7SETNT.EXE, V7SETNT.HLP and V7SETNT.TCO.
- Change to directory \WINNT\SYSTEM32.
- Delete the file BIGNTS3.DLL.
- Change to directory \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS.
- Delete the file BIGNTS3.SYS.
- If you have selected "Large Fonts" in an earlier WindowsNT session
and you have difficulties to install V7SetNT, you get an error
message: Cannot create ...\8514fix.fon, then rerun REGEDT32 and change to
directory: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micorsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
and there change to directory GRE_Initialize.
- In the right side of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-window you can see three
lines with "InitString:REG_SZ:filename.ext".
- Double click each line with your mouse. A string editor comes up.
- Substitute all three 8514*.fon file names through vga.fon.
- Leave the registry program through its menu item File-Exit.
In that case it is neccessary to restart your WindowsNT system to
release the 8514 font files for the following installation of
BigWinNT/V7SetNT (some font file will be copied to the disk).
- Delete the program group SPEA/V7 (common) by pressing the Del-key twice.
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║ End of README - Press [Esc] ║
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