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Diamond ViperII Z200 Series
Windows 9x drivers 4.12.01.9002-9.10.21
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This README file contains the following important information:
1. Important Note
2. Installation Notes
3. Installation Instructions
4. Known Issues
5. Known Limitations
1. Important Note
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Please read this README file and all the supplied documentation
BEFORE you continue the installation.
2. Installation Notes
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These drivers require DirectX 6.1 or DirectX 7.0 to support
DirectDraw & Direct3D applications.
InControl Tools 95 shortcuts are not compatible with Windows 98
and InControl Tools 98. It is important to uninstall any previous
version of InControl Tools (e.g. InControl Tools 95) before
installation of InControl Tools 99. Uninstall from the Control
Panel by:
1. Choosing "Add/Remove Programs"
2. Select "Diamond Multimedia Product Installation & Removal"
3. Click on the "Add/Remove" button
4. Then follow the uninstall process.
Preparing to install the Windows 9x Drivers
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Before installing the Diamond ViperII Z200 Windows 9x display
drivers, switch your display driver to the "Standard VGA".
1. Open your Control Panel and select Display.
2. Select the Settings tab and click the Change Display Type
button.
3. Click the Change button.
4. Select the Show All Devices radio button and scroll to the
top of the left window and select Standard Display Types.
5. In the right window select Standard Display Adapter (VGA).
Click OK.
3. Installation Instructions
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Installation from CD:
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Place the CDROM that you received with Diamond ViperII Z200 in
your CDROM drive X: (X: being your CDROM drive letter).
If your CDROM Autostart feature is turned off, you will need to
manually go to your RUN line (Click on start/run located on your
start bar) and browse your CD to run install.exe from
the install directory, which will guide you through the rest
of the installation.
Manual Installation via .inf:
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Click Start, then Settings, then Control Panel.
Start the "Display" applet program.
Select the "Settings" page, push the "Change Display Type"
button. Push the "Change" button in the "Adapter Type" area.
Push the "Have Disk" button and press "OK".
Specify the path to the new drivers' .inf file and press the
<ENTER> key:
Example 1: Insert the drivers disk in the A: floppy drive,
and enter A:\.
Example 2: Type in the name of the directory where you
copied the drivers, either on your local hard
drive or on a network shared drive.
Example 3: If you're not sure exactly where the drivers
are, choose the "Browse..." button and find them.
The "Select Device" dialog box will appear. Select the adapter
that corresponds to the one you installed in your machine and
click OK.
Windows will copy the display drivers to the proper
directories on your system.
Continue choosing Close until asked to restart your machine from
the "Systems Settings Change" dialog box.
After the system has restarted, you can go back into the Display
applet and select alternate screen resolutions, color depths and
related features.
4. Known Issues
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Known driver issues will be addressed in future updates and
made available on the Diamond website.
Some Multi-Adapter issues are under investigation.
If problems occur with high resolution 32bpp modes, lower the
refresh, resolution or color depth.
Support for WinBench2000 is not implemented in this driver
version.
5. Known Limitations
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By design if both a CRT and a TV are attached and powered on,
both will be detected and Windows will boot to simultaneous
TV & CRT display. The TV must be powered off for Windows to
boot to CRT only.
PAL-M, PAL-N and SECAM are not supported.
Only one overlay surface is available in hardware. If a second
overlay stream is attempted, the video stream will play
through GDI.
The version of Quake III included with this CD is fully functional
only with Windows 98. Do not play on a Windows 95 system. The system
will lock at the beginning of gameplay.
ICT will not be fully functional with COMCTL32.DLL version 4.70 and
earlier. This may impact Windows 95 platforms. The problems
experienced will included :
1) The InControl Desktop Properties will not execute.
2) The InControl Desktop Manager will not execute.
3) The Diamond 3D page will not execute.
To resolve this issue you can do one of the following:
1) Install a later version of COMCTL32.DLL from the Microsoft Web
Site. It is part of a self-extracting executable (50comupd.exe)
which can be downloaded from Microsoft's webpage through the link at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q186/1/76.ASP
Download the latest version, currently select the option
"Download 50comupd.exe (x86)" 0.49 MB.
2) Install Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.
Zoran software may not install on Windows 95 and OSR2 systems.
Zoran and S3/Diamond are aware of this issue.
InControl Tools (ICT)99:
InControl Tools 99 shortcuts require a system reboot to take
effect when running under Windows 98.
Diamond ICT99 "Internet Sites" popup requires IE3.0 or above or
Netscape Communicator 4.51 or above.
After uninstalling the Update Wizard with Windows 950a or 950b,
reboot your machine to remove Start Menu entries.
Please refer to the Diamond website www.diamondmm.com for future
updates.
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Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. (c) 1993-99, All Rights Reserved
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