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- ║ SPEA WindowsNT Driver BigWinNT (256 colors) Version 2.01 ║
- ║ SPEA V7SETNT Version 1.04 ║
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- ║ for ║
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- ║ 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 ║
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- ║ SPEA Software AG Rel. 1194.2 ║
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- Important information - please read this first !!
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- Contents of that readme file:
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- - 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:
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- 1) From WindowsNT SETUP program (standard installation)
- 2) form SPEA V7SETNT program (quick installation, update; prefered)
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- 1) Installation from WindowsNT setup program (standard installation)
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- - Run WindowsNT, loggin as "Administrator" and run the WindowsNT Setup.
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- - WindowsNT now displays the current system configuration.
- To install the SPEA BigwinNT driver, choose 'Change System Settings' from
- the 'Options' menu in WindowsNT Setup.
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- - Select 'Display' and scroll until
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- <Other> Insert disk
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- 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.
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- - Select via OK the "SPEA V7 BigWinNT" driver and leave WindowsNT setup
- program.
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- - Reboot your system. You will see while booting the SPEA/V7 startup logo.
- Login again as ADMINISTRATOR
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- - 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.
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- - V7SETNT will install BIGNTS3 with default settings 640*480*256 colors
- press the OK button and let your system shutdown and restart.
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- - 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.
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- - 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- - Start WindowsNT and login as "Administrator".
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- - Change to program managers menu File-Run and enter:
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- A:\V7SETNT
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- if your floppy drive with the SPEA/V7 install diskette is in drive a:
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- - V7SETNT will install BIGNTS3 with default settings 640*480*256 colors,
- press the OK button and let your system shutdown and restart.
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- - 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.
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- - 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- - Start WindowsNT and login as adminstrator.
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- - Be sure that standard VGA driver is running and not BigWinNT.
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- - Call program managers menu File-New-Program Item-OK-Browse
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- - 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.
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- - Run REGEDT32 by double clicking the new icon with your mouse.
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- - 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.
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- - Within the left side of the split window you can see a directory
- structure.
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- - Change to directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SPEA.
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- - Press the Del-key and confirm with YES.
- Through it you delete that path from the registry.
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- - Change to directory
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\bignts3.
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- - Press the Del-key and confirm with YES.
- This deletes that path from the registry.
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- - Leave the registry program through its menu item File-Exit.
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- - Run the file manager from main program manager group.
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- - Change to directory \WINNT.
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- - Delete the three files V7SETNT.EXE, V7SETNT.HLP and V7SETNT.TCO.
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- - Change to directory \WINNT\SYSTEM32.
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- - Delete the file BIGNTS3.DLL.
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- - Change to directory \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS.
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- - Delete the file BIGNTS3.SYS.
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- - 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.
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- - In the right side of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-window you can see three
- lines with "InitString:REG_SZ:filename.ext".
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- - Double click each line with your mouse. A string editor comes up.
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- - Substitute all three 8514*.fon file names through vga.fon.
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- - Leave the registry program through its menu item File-Exit.
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- 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).
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- - Delete the program group SPEA/V7 (common) by pressing the Del-key twice.
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