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- Installation disk for videodriver for Windows NT Version 3.1 (final release)
- Version 2.10 03-Mar-94
-
- miro Computer Products AG
- Carl-Miele-Str. 4, D-38112 Braunschweig
- Postfach 3452, D-38024 Braunschweig
- Phone (+49) (0)531 / 2113-0
- Telefax (+49) (0)531 / 2113-99
- Hotline (+49) (0)531 / 2113-666
-
- 1.) Contents of the disk
- 2.) Supported boards and colour modes
- 3.) Installation of the drivers
- 4.) Change of resolutions and colour modes
- 5.) Special hints concerning the truecolor driver
- 6.) Association of the drivers with the various boards
- 7.) Delete drivers
- 8.) Supported resolutions and frequencies of the various boards
- 9.) Hints concerning miroCRYSTAL 8S and miroCRYSTAL 16Si
- 10.) If problems occur...
-
- 1.) Contents of the disk - README.TXT : Hints (this file)
- - LIESMICH.TXT : Hints in German
- - OEMSETUP.INF : Installation script for SETUP program
- - MIRO210. : File for disk identification
- - RAINBOW.SYS : Miniport-(kernel)-driver
- - CRYSTAL.SYS : "-"
- - MAGIC.SYS : "-"
- - FCRYSTAL.SYS : "-"
- - RAINBOW.DLL : Display-(Win32)-driver
- - CRYSTAL.DLL : "-"
- - MAGIC.DLL : "-"
- - FCRYSTAL.DLL : "-"
-
-
- 2.) Supported boards and colour modes
-
- - miroRAINBOW Win : 8 bit (256 colours)
- - miroMAGIC S4 : 8 bit (256 colours)
- - miroCRYSTAL 32S : 8 bit (256 colours)
- - miroCRYSTAL 24S : 8 bit (256 colours)
- - miroCRYSTAL 16S : 8 bit (256 colours)
- - miroMAGIC plus : 8 bit (256 colours)
-
- - miroRAINBOW Win : 32 bit (16.7 million colours) (only with EISA-, VL- und PCI-bus)
- - miroMAGIC S4 : 32 bit (16.7 million colours) (only with EISA-, VL- und PCI-bus)
- - miroCRYSTAL 32S : 32 bit (16.7 million colours) (only with EISA-, VL- und PCI-bus)
-
-
- 3.) Installation of the drivers
-
- a) Start the "Windows NT setup"-program of the group "main".
- b) Wait a moment.
- c) Open the menu "options" und select "Change System Settings".
- d) Open the option box for "Displays" of the new window
- "Change System Settings".
- e) In here scroll until the end and select "Others (Requires a
- disk from a hardware manufacturer)".
- f) A new window "Insert Disk" appears and you are requested to
- insert the installation disk "A:\". If necessary, the default
- selection can be overwritten.
- g) The window "Select OEM Option" appears and you get a list of
- the supported miro boards with their resolutions and frequencies.
- Select an appropriate resolution according to your board and monitor.
- h) Wait a moment.
- i) The window "Change System Settings" appears again, indicating
- the selected driver at "Displays". Confirm by using the "Close"
- button.
- j) If you already installed the drivers in former times you are asked
- whether you want to install the former or the new drivers. Confirm
- the new installation by using the button "New".
- k) A new window "Windows NT Setup" appears and you are requested to
- insert the installation disk. Confirm by using the "Continue" button.
- l) Now you see the introduction menu of the setup-program. Leave
- the program now, e.g. by selecting the menu "Options" and "Exit".
- m) Windows NT gives you the information that the new driver will
- only be effected after a system reboot.
-
- In case of a board with two drivers available (e.g. 256 and 16.7
- million colours) the procedure c) to k) has to be repeated for
- the second driver.
-
- If problems of the display driver occur when rebooting the system,
- you have the possibility to reselect the former configuration by
- using the option "last known good menu". If this doesn`t solve the
- problem you have to repair your system by using the Windows-NT-setup-
- disk/-CD and the "Emergency Repair Disk". The "Emergency Repair Disk"
- should include a configuration with a VGA-driver "640x480, 16 colors"
- and your system has to run properly with this driver under all circum-
- stances. So you can start trouble-shooting now. In order to repair
- your system only select the options "Inspect configuration registry"
- and "SYSTEM (System Configuration)".
-
- If you change the graphics board don`t forget to reconfigure your
- system on the VGA-driver before. So you get a properly running
- system after changing the board and you will be able to install
- the drivers for the new board.
-
- The S3-drivers on the NT-Setup-CD don't run together with
- miroRAINBOW Win, miroMAGIC S4, miroCRYSTAL 32S, miroCRYSTAL 24S
- and miroCRYSTAL 16S.
-
-
- 4.) Change of resolutions and colour modes
-
- a) Start the "Windows NT setup"-program of the group "main".
- b) Wait a moment.
- c) Open the menu "options" und select "Change System Settings".
- d) Open the option box for "Displays" of the new window
- "Change System Settings".
- e) Select the desired resolution from the list of the drivers installed
- for your board and your monitor. Miro now inserts the version number
- into the description string. Select the desired resolution for your
- board and monitor with the highest version number to avoid the
- installation of an old old driver or the use of an old installation
- script.
- f) If the driver is not installed yet a new window "Windows NT Setup"
- appears and you will be requested to insert the installation disk.
- Confirm by using the "Continue"-button.
- g) If the driver has already been installed you will be asked whether
- you want to install the current or a new driver. Confirm the use
- of the pre-installed driver by using the "Current"-button.
- h) Now you see the introduction menu of the setup-program again.
- Leave the program now ( e.g. by using the menu "Options" and "Exit").
- i) Windows NT gives you the information that the new driver will only
- be effected after a system reboot.
-
-
- 5.) Special hints concerning the truecolor driver
-
- The truecolor-driver is created as an accelerated framebufferdriver
- in the flatmodel. At the moment, it only supports miro-boards that
- are equipped with 4 MB. As this memory is completely located into the
- address range of the PC this driver doesn't run together with ISA-
- boards because the ISA-bus system includes a addressing restriction
- of 16MB an nomally these addresses are already reserved for the main
- memory in case of NT-computers.
-
- As a basic address of the framebuffer the driver presets the
- following 32-bit addresses:
- - board for EISA-bus : 07C0.0000 (hex)
- - board for VL-bus : FEC0.0000 (hex)
- - board for PCI-bus : FEC0.0000 (hex)
- If the boards don't run with these addresses (e.g. as a result of an
- incomplete address decoding of your motherboard) the addresses can be
- overwritten by an entry into the registry. Repair your system by
- applicating the measurements described at 3) together with the VGA-
- driver. Start the registry-editor REGEDT32.EXE of the \WINNT\SYSTEM32
- directory. Use its help-function for operating. Look for the key
-
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Local Machine
- \SYSTEM
- \CurrentControlSet
- \Services
- \miroFlatModel
- \Device0
- Select EDIT and AddValue with your mouse. Insert the ValueName
- "FrameBufferBaseAddress" and the DataType "REG_DWORD". In the following
- menu-box insert a new address that will shurely work on your computer.
- After the confirmaton you will find the new inserted address beside
- data e.g. concerning resolution and colour-mode in the right window.
-
- You can delete this value by indicating with the mouse and pressing
- the DEL-Key. Take care not to change or delete any other value -
- your system would not be able to run after a system-reboot!
-
- One of the following versions of the installation disk will include a
- DOS-test-program that enables you to check a miro-board concerning
- available addresses.
-
-
- 6.) Association of the drivers with the various boards
-
- - RAINBOW.SYS and RAINBOW.DLL : for miro-Boards with 4 MB memory
- - miroRAINBOW Win
- - miroMAGIC S3
- - miroCRYSTAL 32S
- - CRYSTAL.SYS and CRYSTAL.DLL : for miro-Boards with 3 MB and 2 MB memory
- - miroCRYSTAL 24S
- - miroCRYSTAL 16S
- - MAGIC.SYS and MAGIC.DLL : for miroMAGIC plus
- - FCRYSTAL.SYS and FCRYSTAL.DLL : Truecolor-driver for miro-Boards with
- 4 MB memory (only with EISA-, VL- and
- PCI-bus)
- - miroRAINBOW Win
- - miroMAGIC S3
- - miroCRYSTAL 32S
-
-
- 7.) Delete drivers
-
- Drivers that will no longer be used or that are out of date can be
- removed by reconfiguring with the Windows NT setup-program a different
- driver (e.g.: VGA Standard 640x480, 16 colors), rebooting the system
- and then deleting with the help of the file-manager at \WINNT\SYSTEM32
- the display-driver (extension: .DLL) and at \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS
- the miniport-driver (extension: .SYS). From now on miro adds the
- file-time to the version number.
-
- After the installation of drivers with the option "Other..." there
- will exist several files OEMVIOx.INF (x=0,1,...) in the directory
- \WINNT\SYSTEM32. These are the renamed installation scripts of the
- current and the former installation disks. You should delete all of
- them except the file with the highest 'x' (the current installation).
- If you don't do so, drivers will be listed several times and by
- different installation disks and versions.
-
- Moreover the refering key should be deleted in the registry with the
- help of the registry-editor REGEDT32 (look at 4.) ). Look for the key
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Local Machine
- \SYSTEM
- \CurrentControlSet
- \Services
- \MiroRainbow for the driver for 4 MB boards
- \MiroCrystal for the driver for 3 MB and 2 MB boards
- \miroFlatModel for the Truecolor-driver
- \MiroMagic for the miroMAGIC plus driver
- \MiroCrystal16s out of date (diskversion 1.01)
- \MiroCrystal24s out of date (diskversion 1.01)
- \MiroCrystal32s out of date (diskversion 1.01)
- Select the key in the left window with your mouse and delete it with
- the DEL-key. Take care not to change or delete any other key - your
- system would not be able to run after a system-reboot!
-
-
- 8.) Supported resolutions and frequencies of the various boards
- (horizontal and vertical scan frequencies are approximate values
- and depend on technical and marketoriented development):
-
- - miroRAINBOW Win, miroMAGIC S4, miroCRYSTAL 32S
- 640 x 480, 16.7M colours, 31 kHz/60 Hz 38 kHz/72 Hz
- 800 x 600, 16.7M colours, 38 kHz/60 Hz 46 kHz/72 Hz
- 1024 x 768, 16.7M colours, 48 kHz/60 Hz 58 kHz/72 Hz
- "64 kHz" "71 kHz" "85 kHz"
- 640 x 480, 256 colours, 54 kHz/107 Hz 61 kHz/120 Hz
- 800 x 600, 256 colours, 60 kHz/94 Hz 66 kHz/103 Hz
- 1024 x 768, 256 colours, 51 kHz/62 Hz 63 kHz/77 Hz 67 kHz/82 Hz
- 1152 x 864, 256 colours, 57 kHz/62 Hz 61 kHz/68 Hz 69 kHz/76 Hz
- 1280 x 1024, 256 colours, 57 kHz/52 Hz 62 kHz/58 Hz 77 kHz/72 Hz
- 1408 x 1024, 256 colours, 64 kHz/59 Hz 71 kHz/67 Hz 71 kHz/67 Hz
-
- - miroCRYSTAL 24S, miroCRYSTAL 16S
- "48 kHz" "58 kHz" "64 kHz"
- 640 x 480, 256 colours, 48 kHz/95 Hz 48 kHz/95 Hz 36 kHz/70 Hz
- 768 x 576, 256 colours, 48 kHz/78 Hz 48 kHz/79 Hz 51 kHz/82 Hz
- 800 x 600, 256 colours, 48 kHz/75 Hz 48 kHz/75 Hz 50 kHz/77 Hz
- 1024 x 768, 256 colours, 50 kHz/61 Hz 61 kHz/75 Hz 64 kHz/79 Hz
-
-
- 9.) Hints concerning miroCRYSTAL 8S and miroCRYSTAL 16Si
-
- The graphics boards miroCRYSTAL 8S and miroCRYSTAL 16Si are supported
- by the Windows NT-included drivers for S3-boards. Therefor select the
- driver "S3 60Hz" respectively "S3 70Hz"in the SETUP-program. The
- following resolutions will be effected:
-
- 640 x 480, 256 colours, 31 kHz/60 Hz 38 kHz/72 Hz
- 800 x 600, 256 colours, 38 kHz/60 Hz 48 kHz/72 Hz
- 1024 x 768, 256 colours, 48 kHz/60 Hz 56 kHz/72 Hz
-
- If the driver "S3 Default Refresh" will be selected, it configures
- according to the DIP-Switches settings. Please refer to the manual
- belonging to the board.
-
- The resolution 1280 x 1024 with 256 colours is not available
- with the miroCRYSTAL 8S, miroCRYSTAL 8S/2MB and miroCRYSTAL 16Si.
-
-
- 10.) If problems occur...
-
- The miro Power Pack (miroMAGIC S4 and miroCRYSTAL 8S) and miroTWINFACE
- are not supported by the NT-drivers. You just can install drivers
- for the first board ("DOS-text/graphics") or you must remove the
- first board from your system and set the jumpers of the second board
- ("only HIRES-graphics") to declare it as the first board. Refer to the
- manual.
-
- In case of problems with the VGA-DOS-box in fullscreen-mode you should
- ask your dealer or miro for an update of the BIOS-ROM.
-
-