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Western Digital Imaging
800 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, California 94043
(415) 960-3353 or (800) 356-5787
VGA Professional Card Utilities
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Disk 1 contains the following utilities and drivers:
INSTALL.EXE File installation program
README This readme file
ROMCHECK.COM ROM date check utility
VGAPROF.EXE Mode switching utility
AutoCAD v2.18 through 2.60 drivers for 800 x 600
AutoCAD Release 9 driver for 800 x 600
Cadvance drivers for 640 x 480, 800 x 600
Framework II drivers for 640 x 480, 800 x 600 and 132 column mode.
GEM 2.1 and 2.2 , 3.0 and 3.1 drivers for 800 x 600
Ventura Publisher 1.1 and 2.0 drivers for 800 x 600
WordStar 3.3 patch for 132 column support.
Disk 2 of the VGA Professional Card Utilities contains the
following drivers and utilities:
16TEST.EXE 16 bit BIOS test utility
BRIDGE.COM TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program that
allows some software, written for other boards,
to run on the VGA Professional Card.
PROGRAM.TXT Information on programming the extended modes
RAMBIOS.EXE TSR BIOS copy utility
RAMBIOS.SYS Device driver BIOS copy utility
AutoCAD Release 10 driver for 800 x 600
Lotus 1-2-3 Rel 2.0, 2.01 / Lotus Symphony Rel 1.1, 1.2, 2.0 drivers
for 640x480, 800x600 graphics and 132 column text modes.
Versacad - 800x600 driver
Windows ver.2 - 16 color driver for 640x480, 800x600
Windows ver.2 - 256 color driver for 640x400, 640x480
Windows 386 - 800 x 600 drivers
WordPerfect 5.0 - 800x600 driver
Note: The above Windows drivers will support Windows compatible
applications such as Excel and PageMaker.
Disk 3 of the VGA Professional Card Utilities contains the
following drivers and utilities:
UPDATE.TXT Update to the Software Manual for the new drivers.
256COLOR.TXT Information on programming the 256 color
extended mode.
AutoCAD v2.18 through 2.60 drivers for 640 x 480
GEM 3.0/3.1 800 x 600 driver.
Generic CADD Level 3 800 x 600 driver [Filename:PVGA800.VGD]
Microsoft Mouse and IBM PS/2 Mouse Users
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If you are installing your mouse driver by way of a program such as
MOUSE.COM or have your mouse driver installed through the CONFIG.SYS
file, you may have problems when using the VGAPROF utility to switch
to non-VGA Hercules, CGA or MDA modes.
When using the Microsoft Mouse driver (version 6.1 or later) or the
IBM PS/2 Mouse driver you will need to use a special procedure when
switching from VGA mode to Hercules or CGA modes.
Rather than choosing "Set Hercules Mode" then "Exit to DOS," you
should choose "Set Hercules Mode" then execute the menu option to
"Reboot System in Current Mode." This option will allow your system
to re-initialize in the currently selected video mode.
At this point you should re-install your mouse, or if your mouse
is installed in CONFIG.SYS, it will re-install automatically.
The procedure for switching from VGA to CGA, MDA or Hercules modes
when the mouse driver is installed is as follows.
1. Execute the VGAPROF.EXE utility
2. Select the desired option (Set CGA, Hercules or MDA)
3. Choose "Reboot System in Current Mode". The system will then
reboot, and you should reload any drivers or TSR utilities
you wish to run.
4. To return to VGA modes, run the VGAPROF.EXE utility and select
a VGA option.
Notes:
* The "Reboot System in Current Mode" option is equivalent to
executing the VGAPROF.EXE utility's "Lock Current Mode" option
then executing a reboot (Ctrl-Alt-Del).
Subsequent reboots will cause the board to come up in the
selected mode (Hercules, MDA or CGA). Using the VGAPROF.EXE
utility to select any other mode will cause subsequent reboots
to come up in the default VGA mode.
* The option to "Reboot System in Current Mode" can be executed
from the DOS command line or through a DOS batch file by using
the special parameter "REBOOT." As an example, to switch from
VGA to Hercules mode when the mouse driver has been loaded execute
the following command from DOS.
VGAPROF HERC1 REBOOT