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- DATE::::::1/2/1995
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- TOPIC:::::THE MIRO DC1 tv CARD and THE INTEL PREMIERE II MOTHERBOARD
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- PROBLEM:::Getting the Miro Windows Driver to setup in Windows Control Panel.
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- SOLUTION::The authors system utilizes Flash Bios version 10.
- The important motherboard *-Bios Setup Setting-* to accomodate
- add-in cards requiring an address space in the conventional upper
- memory area occurs on the Peripheral Setup page, and specifically
- in the ISA Shared Memory field of the "Plug n'Play" Page.
- The upper memory is by default shadowed in this system.
- It is important to prevent this shadowing in the area of the
- add-in card on-board Bios.
- Locate the Bios Page and field mentioned above and press Enter
- on this field to select the amount of Ram to be set aside as
- non-shadowed. For the Miro card the correct value is 16K.
- After this is set, a new field appears allowing selection of
- the starting address of this 16K of memory. In the Miro cards
- case, CC00 worked well, but other selections are available
- here and in the driver setup in Windows Control Panel.
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- NOTE:-->>>In addition to excluding the memory from shadowing here, be sure
- to exclude the same region (ie CC00-CCFF) in EMM386 memory manager
- in CONFIG.SYS using the command X=CC00-CCFF on the EMM386 line, and
- also insert the line EMMExclude=CC00-CCFF in SYSTEM.INI [386enh]
- section.
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- CLOSING:::Another consideration with this combo is hard drive speed.
- The Intel Premiere onboard PCI IDE interface allows the use of
- modern IDE drives (eg Western Digital Caviar series) which has a
- tremendously positive effect on saving 30fps vidio with no dropped
- frames.
- Good Luck with this great setup.