ATI CATALYST 4.12, 12/10/04 Immediately following restart, the new display driver will be loaded for the first time. It will automatically run a series of tests to ensure maximum stability on this system. These tests normally take under one minute to complete. The test may cause your computer to stop responding. If this happens simply restart the computer at which point the tests will continue normally. A) SUPPORTED ATI PRODUCTS B) LANGUAGES C) PRIOR to USING wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe D) USING wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe E) UN-INSTALL wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe F) ISSUES YOU MAY ENCOUNTER G) CONTACT INFORMATION ************************************ ************************************ wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe Windows Display Driver for ATI RADEON ************************************ ************************************ A) SUPPORTED ATI PRODUCTS The drivers included in this package are for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000. These drivers may be used with, RADEON X850 SERIES RADEON X800 SERIES RADEON X700 SERIES RADEON X600 SERIES RADEON X300 SERIES ALL-IN-WONDER 9800 SERIES ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 SERIES ALL-IN-WONDER 9600 SERIES ALL-IN-WONDER 9200 SERIES ALL-IN-WONDER 9000 SERIES ALL-IN-WONDER 8500 ALL-IN-WONDER 8500DV ALL-IN-WONDER 7500 ALL-IN-WONDER VE PCI ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON RADEON 9800 SERIES RADEON 9700 SERIES RADEON 9600 SERIES RADEON 9550 SERIES RADEON 9500 SERIES RADEON 9200 SERIES RADEON 9100 SERIES RADEON 9000 SERIES RADEON 8500 SERIES RADEON 7500 SERIES RADEON 7200 SERIES RADEON 7000 SERIES This package includes, Display Driver WXP = 6.14.10.6497 Control Panel = 6.14.10.5134 TV Capture WDM = 6.14.10.6246 ************************************ B) LANGUAGES wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe contains a display driver with language support for; Arabic English Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Czechoslovakian Danish Dutch Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish ************************************ C) PRIOR to USING wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe UNINSTALL any previous version of the RADEON display driver prior to installing this version. See the "Un-Install" section for instructions. ************************************ D) USING wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe Overview There are two phases to the installation of a driver that has been downloaded from the ATI WEB site. The first phase occurs when you run the wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe program. This phase creates a temporary directory on the system disk and unpacks all the individual files that make up the ATI software bundle. In the second phase the ATI SETUP program is launched from the temporary directory created in the first phase. ATI SETUP installs the software (from the temporary directory) into the operating system. Steps a) You must download wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe and save it to a directory on your systems hard disk. For example C:\temp is a common directory used to initially save a file into. b) Once you have downloaded wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe, - Close all programs - Click the START button and select the RUN menu item. - Click the BROWSE button. - Browse to the directory where wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe was saved. - Select wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe and click OK to run the program. - Follow the instructions on the screen. ! The individual files will be unpacked and placed into a directory on your hard disk. The default path for this directory is C:\ATI\support\wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c\ ! After copying the files to the hard disk the INSTALLATION program will launch. You may choose to abort the INSTALL process at this point. (If you abort, no software will be installed into Windows.) Manual Installation instructions after running wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe - Start Windows. - Click the START button. - Click the RUN menu item. - Click the BROWSE button. Browse to the directory where the files were unpacked after running wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c.exe. (The default directory is C:\ATI\support\wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c) - Select SETUP.EXE and press OK. - Follow the instructions displayed in the help. ************************************ E) UN-INSTALL To un-install this software; - Click START, go to SETTINGS and select CONTROL PANEL. - Launch ADD/REMOVE programs. - Select "ATI Display Driver" and then click the ADD/REMOVE button. - RESTART Windows. To un-install temporary files from the DOWNLOAD bundle; - Delete the directory C:\ATI\support\wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-082-041130a-019577c\ NOTE: If you unbundled the files into a different directory, simply delete that directory. ************************************ F) ISSUES YOU MAY ENCOUNTER: ------------------------------- VERSION CONFLICTS When installing Display Drivers or Software a "Version Conflict" message may appear multiple times during the installation. If you encounter a "VERSION CONFLICT" message while installing this display driver select the "NO" option to proceed. * Selecting "NO" will ensure that the components of this driver bundle will replace your existing driver components. * Selecting "YES" will result in a MIX of new and old driver components, which is undesirable. ------------------------------- CONFIRM FILE REPLACE When installing Display Drivers or Software a "Confirm File Replace" message may appear multiple times during the installation. If you encounter a "Confirm File Replace" message while installing this display driver select the "YES" option to proceed. Selecting "YES" will ensure that all the components of this driver bundle will replace your existing driver components. ------------------------------- Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP. For complete details see; http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html This symptom does not occur on all systems. The key ingredients that lead to this symptom may include: - System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common) - Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays) - AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default) - Large file transfers To avoid this symptom ensure the System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. Use the Programs option. - right-click on the My Computer Icon then Properties to open the System Properties dialog box - select the Advanced Tab then the Settings button under Performance - select the Advanced tab on the Performance options tab - in the Memory Usage area, ensure the Programs radio button is selected - Apply the changes and select OK ************************************ G) ATI CONTACT INFORMATION: ATI WEB site: www.ati.com