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- Voodoo Series Windows(r) 2000 Driver Kit
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- Voodoo Series(tm) Driver kit: 1.04.00
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- Voodoo Series Win2k(r) Display Driver and Miniport: 5.00.2195.0232
- Glide(tm) 2.X Driver: 2.61.00.0658
- Glide 3.X Driver: 3.10.00.0658
- OpenGL(r) Driver Version: 1.0.0.0734 ICD
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- Copyright ( 1998-2000 3dfx Interactive, Inc. )
- All Rights Reserved
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- NOTE: Use of this software is subject to the terms in the 3dfx license
- agreement.
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- 3dfx Interactive, Inc.
- Website: http://www.3dfx.com
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- This product may be covered by one or more of the following
- US patents: 5,724,561 5,740,343 5,808,621 5,822,452 5,831,624
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- What's in the distribution?
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- This distribution contains Voodoo drivers and control panel for
- Windows 2000. The DirectDraw portion of the drivers supports Direct3D
- when using DirectX 7.0
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- Installation
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- Requirements
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- - Windows 2000
- - PC with a Pentium, Pentium II, or Pentium Pro Processor and a free
- AGP or PCI slot
- - 16MB of RAM
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- Fresh Installation
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- NOTE: Complete Steps 1 and 2 before removing your existing 2D card.
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- 1) Download the kit to a directory on your local machine.
- 2) Before removing your existing 2D card switch the video driver to
- Standard VGA. Click Start, Control Panel. Double-click on Display.
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- Select 640X480 and 16 colors. Accept the changes.
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- 3) Power off the system and remove your existing 2D card.
- 4) Install the Voodoo Card in a free AGP or PCI Slot
- 5) Power on the system and verify that video appears during post.
- 6) Start Windows in Normal mode
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- (Once Windows starts you may be notified that no video device
- exists, click Cancel if this message appears)
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- 7) Run the 3dfx executable from the location it was downloaded to. Click SETUP.
- At the welcome screen of 3dfx Tools select NEXT. Click on YES when prompted
- to install Voodoo Driver.
- 8) Follow instruction on the screen to install Voodoo Driver and 3dfx Tools
- Control Panel.
- 9) Select 'Yes, I want to restart my computer now' when prompted.
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- Upgrade Existing Voodoo Drivers
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- 1) Start Windows 2000
- 2) Download the kit to a directory on your local machine.
- 3) Open the directory where the kit has been placed and double-click on the
- executable. Click SETUP. At the welcome screen of 3dfx Tools,
- select NEXT. Click on YES when prompt to install Voodoo Driver.
- 4) Follow instruction on the screen to install Voodoo Driver and 3dfx Tools
- Control Panel.
- 5) Select 'Yes, I want to restart my computer now' when prompted.
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- Troubleshooting Techniques
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- Problem:
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- User can only access a resolution of 640x480 although any colour depth
- is available
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- Explanation:
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- This happens when the monitor is set to unknown or default
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- Solution:
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- Change monitor selection on display properties page by following the
- following instructions:
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- * Right click on desktop and select properties from the drop down menu
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- * Click on the settings tab and select advanced
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- * Choose monitor tab
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- * Select change
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- * Follow the instructions and change to either PnP (Plug and Play) or
- the exact model of the monitor
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