======================================================================= ASUS Display Drivers Readme for Windows 98 and Windows ME Supported Cards and Motherboards: ASUS VANTA2000 ASUS V3800 Series ASUS V6600 Series ASUS V6800 Series ASUS V7100 Series ASUS V7700 Series ASUS V8200 Series ASUS V8170 Series ASUS V8420 Series ASUS V8440 Series ASUS V8460 Series ASUS V9180 Series ASUS V9280 Series ASUS V9480 Series ASUS V9520 Series ASUS V9560 Series ASUS V9900 Series ASUS V9950 Series ASUS V9570 Series ASUS V9980 Series ASUS CUA Series ======================================================================= Installation Steps ------------------ You can use 4 methods to install Windows 98/ME display driver: We suppose the path of your driver CD is "D:\" and use Windows 98/ME as an example. Method 1 (PnP installation) 1. Remove your previous video adapter and plug your ASUS display card in system. Start Windows. Windows will find a new device and pop up a PnP dialog that asks for its driver. 2. Assign the path of driver in your CD for Windows to find the INF file of ASUS display card. For example, type d:\Win9xME where d:\ represents the letter of your CD-ROM drive. 3. Windows will install its driver automatically and then request for restarting. 4. Choose Yes to reboot your system. The driver will work when Windows comes up. 5. Note that this method will not install DirectX runtime libraries and VGARTD driver. Method 2 (Display property page) 1. Start Windows, switch display to VGA mode, then restart. 2. Press right key of mouse on your desktop and select "Properties". 3. Click the "Settings" tab. 4. Click "Advanced...". 5. Click "Change" button on the right of the first item "Adapter". 6. Click "Have Disk.." button - "Install from Disk" box will appear. 7. Click "Browse" button - "Open" box appears. 8. Select your CD drive in the "Drives" selection on the bottom. 9. Double click "Win9xMe" in the "Folders" selection. 10. "AsusNv9x.INF" appears in the filename selection. 11. Click "OK" button. 12. You will see a list of video cards. Select type of your VGA card and click "OK". 13. After copying all files of the driver, it will back to "Change Display Type". 14. Select Monitor type if necessary. 15. Click "Close" button and "Display Properties" box appears. 16. Click "Apply" button and "System Setting Change" box appears. 17. Click "Yes" to restart your Windows. 18. When Windows starts up, your video adapter is now ready to use. 19. Note that this method will not install DirectX runtime libraries. You must install it by yourself. You also can not uninstall display driver. Method 3 (ASUS Autorun. Quick installation) 1. Start Windows. 2. Put ASUS driver CD into CD-ROM drive. 3. The AutoPlay function of CD-ROM will work and pop up ASUS Autorun window. 4. Select "Install display driver" option. 5. Follow the instructions on dialog. Driver will be installed and request for restart. 6. Reboot system and your video adapter is now ready to use. Method 4 (Run ASUS installation program directly) 1. Start Windows. 2. Put ASUS driver CD into CD-ROM drive. 3. Change to "D:\Win9xMe" directory and execute "ANvSETUP.EXE". You also can change to "D:\Win9xMe\ANvWest" or "D:\Win9xMe\ANvEast" directory (depending on your language) for multi-language support installation. 4. Run "setup.exe". 5. Follow the instructions. Driver will be installed and request for restarting. 6. Reboot system and your video adapter is now ready to use. Important notes ---------------- 1. Windows 98/ME OpenGL ICD and video capture driver (for TV models only) have been included. 2. Quick installation works only when it finds that Primary Display is ASUS display card or device node exists. You can also ignore the warning dialog and continue to install driver. If it do not work, you must install driver via Windows PnP dialog or Display property page (use ASUSNv9x.INF). 3. To make better capturing performane, you may need to check: 1) Make sure DMA mode is enabled if you use IDE DMA/33 or DMA/66 hard-drives. (Control Panel => System => Device Manager => Disk Drives => Properties => Settings => Options => DMA) 2) Run Disk Defragmenter (DeFrag.exe) if hard driver is near full. 4. ASUS display cards consume more electrical power so that your motherboard must be able to provide enough electrical current in 3.3V power to maintain its normal operation. 5. If VIA chipset is on your mainboard, please install VIA VGARTD with normal mode. 6. Please disable Motion Compensation function of the ASUS DVD 2000. This limitation will be removed in next version. Trouble Shootings ------------------ 1. After installing the driver, Windows 98/ME doesn't prompt me for restarting and the driver still doesn't work after I reboot it by myself. You may have installed similar drivers before. Try the following steps to install: (1) Use right button of mouse to click on "My Computer" icon on desktop. (2) Select "Properties" and "System Properties" box appears (3) Click on "Device Manager" tab (4) You will see a list of devices on your computer. (5) If "Display adapters" appears in the list, click it. If "Display adapters" doesn't appear, jump to step 9 and continue. (6) The name of your card will be listed in the box. Double click it. (7) The properties box of your card appears. Select "Driver" tab. (8) Click "Update Driver.." and follow the installation steps. (9) Click "Other devices" you will see your card is listed. (10) Click on the name of card, the properties box appears. Select "Driver" tab. (11) Click "Change Driver.." and follow the installation steps. 2. After installation and restarting, Windows 98/ME informs me that display setting is still incorrect. What can I do? There may be conflict between previous and current display drivers. This is caused by not complete removal of previous display driver. Try the following steps to remove it: (1) Use right button of mouse to click on "My Computer" icon on desktop. (2) Select "Properties" and "System Properties" box appears (3) Click on "Device Manager" tab (4) You will see a list of devices on your computer. (5) Open "Display adapters" in the list (double click it). (6) You will find two (or more) conflicted adapters listed here. (7) Remove all previous adapters by selecting them and press "Remove" (8) Close Device Manager and restart Windows 98/ME. (9) Now display driver will work correctly. ASUS Contact Information ------------------------ ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. 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