miro.plus high-speed drivers - Install Disk for Windows NT (tm) Version 3.5 / 3.51 operating system 17-Oct-96 miro Computer Products AG Carl-Miele-Str. 4, D-38112 Braunschweig P.O.Box 3452, D-38024 Braunschweig Phone (+49) (0)531 / 2113-0 Fax (+49) (0)531 / 2113-99 Hotline (+49) (0)531 / 2113-666 Windows NT is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. NOTE: The drivers on the disk have been developed for "Windows NT Workstation Version 3.5" (build 807) resp. "Windows NT Workstation Version 3.51" (build 1057). Any compatibility with other versions of Windows NT version is not guaranteed. The drivers must be installed from a disk, it is not possible to install out of a subdirectory. 1.) Disk contents 2.) Single-screen configuration 2.1.) Supported boards 2.2.) Hardware installation 2.3.) Driver installation 2.4.) miro Monitor Select - Control Panel extension 2.5.) Changing the resolutions 2.6.) miro Video Address - Control Panel extension 2.7.) Special tips for miroCRYSTAL 20SV/40SV/44SV/84SV twin and miroCRYSTAL 20SD twin 3.) miroTWINFACE dual-screen configuration 3.1.) Supported boards 3.1.1.) With miroTWINMODULE 10 3.1.2.) With miroTWINMODULE 20 3.1.3.) With miroTWINMODULE 40 3.2.) Hardware installation 3.3.) Driver installation 3.4.) miro Monitor Select - Control Panel extension 3.5.) Changing the resolutions 3.6.) miro Video Address - Control Panel extension 3.7.) Positioning windows 3.7.1.) through Windows NT 3.5 3.7.2.) miroTWINFACE control - Program for positioning windows 3.7.3.) miroTWINFACE control - Control Panel Extension 4.) Deleting drivers 5.) In case of problems 6.) Special hint 1.) Disk contents - README.TXT : Instructions (this file) - LIESMICH.TXT : Instructions German - OEMSETUP.INF : Installation script for SETUP program - MIRO. : File for disk identification - CRYSTAL2.CPL : Control Panel extension (for miro Monitor Select and miroTWINFACE control) - MLINADDR.CPL : Control Panel extension (for miro Video Address) - MTWINCON.EXE : miroTWINFACE control - program - MTWINDLL.DLL : dynamic link library for miroTWINFACE control - CARD****.INI : board spezific configuration files - MONITOR.INI : configuration file - TIMING.INI : configuration file - MIROHW.INI : configuration file - MIRONAME.INI : configuration file -- for Windows NT 3.5 - 3.50\CRYSTALS.SYS : Miniport-(kernel)-driver (for single-screen configuration) - 3.50\CRYSTAL2.SYS : Miniport-(kernel)-driver (for miroTWINFACE) - 3.50\CRYSTALS.DLL : Display-(Win32)-driver (for single-screen configuration) - 3.50\CRYSTAL2.DLL : Display-(Win32)-driver (for miroTWINFACE) -- for Windows NT 3.51 - 3.51\CRYSTALS.SYS : Miniport-(kernel)-driver (for single-screen configuration) - 3.51\CRYSTAL2.SYS : Miniport-(kernel)-driver (for miroTWINFACE) - 3.51\CRYSTALS.DLL : Display-(Win32)-driver (for single-screen configuration) - 3.51\CRYSTAL2.DLL : Display-(Win32)-driver (for miroTWINFACE) 2.) Single-screen configuration 2.1.) Supported boards 8 Bit (256 colors) / 15 Bit (32k colors) / 16 Bit (65k colors) / 32 Bit (16,7M colors) : - miroCRYSTAL 80SV - miroCRYSTAL 40SV - miroCRYSTAL 20SV - miroCRYSTAL 40SV ergo - miroCRYSTAL 20SV ergo - miroCRYSTAL 84SV twin - miroCRYSTAL 44SV twin - miroCRYSTAL 40SV twin - miroCRYSTAL 20SV twin - miroCRYSTAL 22SD twin - miroCRYSTAL 20SD twin - miroCRYSTAL 20SD/2MB - miroCRYSTAL 22SD - miroVIDEO 40SV ergo - miroVIDEO 20SV - miroVIDEO 20SD - miroVIDEO 22SD - miroMEDIA View - miroMEDIA View/SE 8 Bit (256 colors) / 15 Bit (32k colors) / 16 Bit (65k colors) : - miroCRYSTAL 20SD/1MB - miroCRYSTAL 12SD/2MB - miroCRYSTAL 12SD/1MB 2.2.) Hardware installation Install your graphics board as described in the Hardware Manual supplied with your board. 2.3.) Driver installation It is required that you have installed Windows NT 3.5 with a graphics driver for your VGA board. The drivers must be installed from a disk, it is not possible to install out of a subdirectory. a) In the "main" group start the "Control Panel" program. b) Start the "Display Tool" to select/change the video display. c) In the "Display Settings" window click the "Change Display Type" button. d) In the "Display Type" window you get information on the current display driver. Click the "Change" button. e) The "Select Device" window offers an overview of all display drivers supplied with Windows NT 3.5. Click the "Other" button. f) In the "Install From Disk" window you are requested to insert the installation disk "A:\". If necessary, overwrite the default selection. Click "OK" to confirm. g) The "Select Device" window appears again. At the end of the display driver list there is also the driver for your miro board. Select the "miroCRYSTAL (single screen)" driver for all boards supported by this installation disk. Click the "Install" button. Confirm the following warning. h) If you had already installed the driver, you are asked whether you want to install the old or the new driver. Start the installation of a new driver by clicking the "New" button. i) You are requested again to insert the installation disk under A:\. If necessary, overwrite the default. To confirm the installation, click the "Continue" button. When the message about a successful installation appears confirm. Confirm the message telling you that the driver is only available after restarting the computer. j) You can restart the computer immediately by clicking "Restart Now" in the "Display settings change" window. You can also click the "Don`t Restart Now" button to go back to the "Display type" window. To close this window click "Close". To close the "Display settings" window click "OK". Use the Program Manager to restart the system. k) After the restart the driver which has just been installed is active with the lowest resolution (31 kHz VESA monitor: 640 x 480, 256 colours, 60 Hz). Go on with 2.4.) to select a monitor and with 2.5.) to change the resolution. If problems occur with the display driver when restarting the system, you can reselect the VGA driver by using the "Windows NT Version 3.5 [VGA mode]" option in the boot menu. If this doesn`t solve the problem use the "last good menu" option to reselect the old configuration. If this does not help either, use the Windows-NT-setup-disk/-CD and the "Emergency Repair Disk" to repair your system. The "Emergency Repair Disk" should include a configuration with a VGA driver "640x480, 16 colors" because your system runs properly with this driver in any case. To repair your system select the "Inspect configuration registry" and "SYSTEM (System Configuration)" options only. If your system uses another display driver, you need the installation disk to enable the "miroCRYSTAL" driver again. You can, however, use the driver already installed on your hard disk by clicking the "Current" button (see h)). 2.4.) miro Monitor Select - Control Panel extension a) Start the "Control Panel" program from the "main" group. b) To select a monitor, start the "miro Monitor Select"-Tool. c) The title is the name of your graphics board. d) Select your monitor from the "Monitor" list. If your monitor is not listed, select the monitor from the "Multi Frequency" monitors with the frequency which comes close to the frequency of your monitor. e) After a short while you see the "Available Resolutions" list which gives you an overview of all resolutions supported by your monitor and the horizontal and vertical refresh rates. Please make sure that you do not select a horizontal scan frequency which is higher than the horizontal scan frequency of your monitor. f) To confirm your selection, click "OK". g) In the "Monitor Settings Change" window you can restart your computer immediately by pressing the "Restart Now" button. You can also click the "Don't Restart Now" button to get back to the "Control Panel" program. Restart the system using the Program Manager. h) After the restart the selected monitor is active. If the resolutions and refresh rates differ from the settings of the previous monitor, the system will notify you. Then, the 640 x 480 resolution with 256 colors and 31 kHz / 60 Hz is enabled. To change the resolution, proceed with 2.5.). i) Instad of proceeding as described under f), you can abort the tool by pressing the "Cancel" button. In this case, the settings you made will not be enabled. PLEASE NOTE: The "miro Monitor Select" icon is only available in the "Control Panel" program, if a driver installed from this disk is currently active. 2.5.) Changing the resolutions a) In the "main" group start the "Control Panel" program. b) Start the "Display Tool" to select/change the video display. c) The "List All Modes" button lists the resolutions your board and your monitor support and the number of colours and frequencies. Double-click to select a resolution. d) You can also use the "Desktop area" slider, the "Color Palette" and the "Refresh Frequency" windows to select a resolution. Keep in mind that the settings are interdependent. If you select an invalid setting, the other options change so that a valid setting is restored. e) To check the selected resolution in a testscreen, click the "Test" button and confirm. - Is the selected resolution/frequency displayed on the monitor? - Is the correct resolution specified? - Are the arrows in the testscreen margins visible? - Are the coloured and the hatched areas displayed correctly? f) After five seconds the testscreen disappears and you see the workspace again. If the resolution on the testscreen is OK, confirm the "Testing Mode" window with "Yes". g) You can restart the computer immediately by clicking "Restart Now" in the "Display settings change" window. You can also click the "Donīt Restart Now" button to go back to the "Display type" window. To close this window click "Close". To close the "Display settings" window click "OK". Use the Program Manager to restart the system. h) After the restart the new resolution is active. i) If you do not like the resolution, click "No" in the "Testing Mode" window. After another message has appeared, you are back in the "Display Settings" window. Select another resolution and continue with e) or close the Display Tool by clicking the "Cancel" button. The "Font Size" window allows you to select another font size (see d)). If you have not installed the fonts of the selected size, you are requested to insert the installation disk under A:\. Overwrite the default with the drive letter of you CD drive and enter the path \i386. Insert the Windows NT Version 3.5 CD in your CD drive so that the required files can be copied to your hard disk. 2.6.) miro Video Address (Control Panel extension) To accelerate the image output even more, activate the linear video addressing function. For this purpose an extension of the Control Panel is installed during the installation. Open the Control Panel Program and click the "miro Video Address" icon to configure the linear video address, PLEASE NOTE: Keep in mind that problems may occur with motherboards which do not decode the addresses completely and in case of address conflicts with other memory-mapped expansion boards or with the main memory. PLEASE NOTE: For the driver for Windows NT 3.51 and a computer with PCI bus your system activates this option automatically. If any problems occur with your motherboard (e.g. older motherboards with PCI bus and Vesa Local bus), disable this option. All other adjustments of this tool will be ignored by the driver. Use the "Linear Video Addressing enabled" and the "Linear Video Addressing disabled" buttons to switch the linear video addressing function on/off: - "Linear Video Addressing enabled" switches this option on. Then the video memory of the graphics board is unsegmented and can be accessed by the display driver under the address specified under "Physical address". - "Linear Video Addressing disabled" switches this option off (default setting). The linear video address is specified under "Physical address". This address can be overwritten with a hexadecimal value. Make sure that the new address is aligned with 8 MB (example of sequence of increasing addresses: 7400.000 - 7480.000 - 7500.0000). (Default setting: fe00.0000) Use the arrow buttons beside the display window to increase / decrease the video address in 8 MB steps. The "reset to defaults" enables the default settings. Confirm your settings by clicking "OK" and close the "configuration of linear video address". The settings take effect after the computer has been restarted. If the address you entered is not aligned correctly, you cannot close the window using the "OK" button. Correct the setting or click "Cancel" to abort. If problems occur with the display driver when restarting the computer, start the system with another driver as described under 2.3) and switch the linear video addressing function off. PLEASE NOTE: The "miro Video Address" icon is only available in the "Control Panel" program, if a driver installed from this disk is currently active. 2.7.) Special tips for miroCRYSTAL 20SV/40SV/44SV/84SV twin and miroCRYSTAL 20SD twin Please note: If DIP switch 2 is not set to "ON", to both monitor outputs of the graphics board a monitor has to be connected. For the graphics output the high-resolution board/monitor is used. the boot messages and the fullscreen VGA DOS box appears on the first monitor. 3.) miroTWINFACE dual-screen configuration 3.1.) Supported boards 3.1.1.) With miroTWINMODULE 10 8 Bit (256 colors) / 15 Bit (32k colors) / 16 Bit (65k colors) : - miroCRYSTAL 40SV twin - miroCRYSTAL 20SV twin - miroCRYSTAL 20SD twin 3.1.2.) with miroTWINMODULE 20 8 Bit (256 colors) / 15 Bit (32k colors) / 16 Bit (65k colors) / 32 Bit (16,7M colors) : - miroCRYSTAL 40SV twin - miroCRYSTAL 20SV twin - miroCRYSTAL 22SD twin - miroCRYSTAL 20SD twin 3.1.3.) with miroTWINMODULE 40 - miroCRYSTAL 84SV twin - miroCRYSTAL 44SV twin 3.2.) Hardware installation Install your graphics board as described in the Hardware Manual supplied with your board. To use miroTWINFACE with two monitors having different technical data, connect the monitor with the lower resolution to the daughterboard. Connect the second monitor to the basic board. If you have two monitors with identical technical data, you do not have to connect them as described above. The monitor connected to the daughterboard displays the boot messages and the fullscreen DOS prompt. Make sure that DIP switch 2 is not set to ON. It is assumed that the monitor connected to the daughterboard is located on the right-hand side of your desktop and the monitor connected to the basic board on the left-hand side. This allocation can be redefined as described under 3.4.d). We recommend this arrangement, however, for monitors with different technical data, because then the icons for minimized programs are always located at the bottom on the left-hand side in the visible screen area. 3.3.) Driver installation It is required that you have installed Windows NT 3.5 with a graphics driver for your VGA board and that you installed the miro driver for the single-screen solution. a) In the "main" group start the "Control Panel" program. b) Start the "Display-Tool" to select/change the video display. c) In the "Display Settings" window click the "Change Display Type" button. d) In the "Display Type" window you get information on the current display driver. Click the "Change" button. e) The "Select Device" window offers an overview of all display drivers supplied with Windows NT 3.5. If you want to switch between the single-screen and the miroTWINFACE configuration later without having to insert the installation disk again, disable the "Disable current driver". Click the "Other" button. f) In the "Install From Disk" window you are requested to insert the installation disk "A:\". If necessary, overwrite the default selection. Click "OK" to confirm. g) The "Select Device" window appears again. At the end of the display driver list there is also the driver for your miro board. Select the "miroCRYSTAL (miroTWINFACE)" driver for all boards supported by this installation disk. Click the "Install" button. Confirm the following warning. h) If you had already installed the driver, you are asked whether you want to install the old or the new driver. Confirm the installation of a new driver by clicking the "New" button. i) You are requested again to insert the installation disk under A:\. If necessary, overwrite the default. To confirm the installation, click the "Continue" button. When the message about a successful installation appears confirm. Confirm the message telling you that the driver is only available after restarting the computer. j) You can restart the computer immediately by clicking "Restart Now" in the "Display settings change" window. You can also click the "Donīt Restart Now" button to go back to the "Display Type" window. To close this window click "Close". To close the "Display settings" window click "OK". Use the Program Manager to restart the system. k) After the restart the driver which has just been installed is active with the lowest resolution (for both screens: 31kHz VESA monitor: 640 x 480, 256 colours, 60 Hz). Go on with 3.4.) to select a monitor and with 3.5.) to change the resolution. If problems occur with the display driver when restarting the system, proceed as described under 2.3). If your system uses another display driver, you need the installation disk to enable the "miroCRYSTAL" driver again. You can, however, use the driver already installed on your hard disk by clicking the "Current" button (see h)). 3.4.) miro Monitor Select - Control Panel extension a) Start the "Control Panel" program from the "main" group. b) To select a monitor, start the "miro Monitor Select"-Tool. c) The title consists of the name of your graphics board or your miroTWINMODULE which is assigned to the left/right monitors. d) If the boards are not assigned to the correct monitor, you can change this setting using the "Boot messages on left monitor" / "Boot messages on right monitor buttons. Select the monitor on which the boot messages appeared. After changing the setting, the titles are updated according to 3.4.c). Also, the resolution list may change according to 3.4.f). e) Select your monitor from the "Monitor" list. If your monitor is not listed, select the monitor from the "Multi Frequency" monitors with the frequency which comes close to the frequency of your monitor. f) After a short while you see the "Available Resolutions" list which gives you an overview of all resolutions supported by your monitor and the horizontal and vertical refresh rates. Please make sure that you do not select a horizontal scan frequency which is higher than the horizontal scan frequency of your monitor. g) To avoid loading the miroTWINFACE driver, press the "disable miroTWINFACE" button. If you disabled the "Disable current driver" button, the driver running before (e.g. miroCRYSTAL (single-screen) ) or the VGA driver is activated. h) To confirm your selection, click "OK". i) In the "Monitor Settings Change" window you can restart your computer immediately by pressing the "Restart Now" button. You can also click the "Don't Restart Now" button to get back to the "Control Panel" program. Restart the system using the Program Manager. j) After the restart the selected monitors are active. If the resolutions and refresh rates differ from the settings of the previous monitor, the system will notify you. Then, the 640 x 480 resolution with 256 colors and 31 kHz / 60 Hz is enabled for both screens. To change the resolution, proceed with 3.5.). k) Instad of proceeding as described under h), you can abort the tool by pressing the "Cancel" button. In this case, the settings you made will not be enabled. PLEASE NOTE: The "miro Monitor Select" icon is only available in the "Control Panel" program, if a driver installed from this disk is currently active. If you disabled the miroTWINFACE driver under 3.4.g), the miroMONITOR-Select program for the single-screen operation receives another button which activates miroTWINFACE. For the single-screen and the dual-screen operation the monitors have to be configured individually. There is no synchronisation between both installations. 3.5.) Changing the resolutions a) In the "main" group start the "Control Panel" program. b) Start the "Display Tool" to select/change the video display. c) The "List All Modes" button lists the resolutions your board supports and the number of colours and frequencies. Double-click to select a resolution. PLEASE NOTE: For miroTWINFACE for Windows NT version 3.5 the horizontal resolutions are added, the vertical resolution is the maximum resolution of the basic board. If this resolution is higher than the maximum vertical resolution of the daughterboard, the remaining screen area is displayed virtually, the workspace can be moved by moving the mouse cursor toward the upper or the lower screen margin. The selected frequency refers to the monitor connected to the basic board. Detailed information for both monitors you will receive from the "miro Monitor Select" program. d) You can also use the "Desktop area" slider, the "Color Palette" and the "Refresh Frequency" windows to select a resolution. Keep in mind that the settings are interdependent. If you select an invalid setting, the other options change so that a valid setting is restored. e) To check the selected resolution in a testscreen, click the "Test" button and confirm. - Is the selected resolution/frequency displayed on both monitors? - Is the specified resolution the resolution of the visible screen area? - Are the arrows in the margins of the testscreen visible? (In the virtual mode the arrows are not visible on the monitor connected to the daughterboard.) - Are the coloured and the hatched areas displayed correctly? f) After five seconds the testscreen disappears and you see the workspace again. If the resolution on the testscreen is OK, confirm the "Testing Mode" window with "Yes". g) You can restart the computer immediately by clicking "Restart Now" in the "Display settings change" window. You can also click the "Donīt Restart Now" button to go back to the "Display Type" window. To close this window click "Close". To close the "Display settings" window click "OK". Use the Program Manager to restart the system. h) After the restart the new resolution is active. i) If you do not like the resolution, click "No" in the "Testing Mode" window. After another message has appeared, you are back to the "Display Settings" window. Select another resolution and continue with e) or close the Display-Tool by clicking the "Cancel" button. The "Font Size" window allows you to select another font size (see d)). If you have not installed the fonts of the selected size, you are requested to insert the installation disk under A:\. Overwrite the default with the drive letter of you CD drive and enter the path \i386. Insert the Windows NT Version 3.5 CD in your CD drive so that the required files can be copied to your hard disk. 3.6.) miro Video Address - Control Panel extension To accelerate the image output even more, activate the linear video addressing function. Proceed as is described under 2.6) for the single-screen mode. If you installed the driver for the single-screen mode in addition to the driver for the miroTWINFACE mode, the settings are saved for both drivers. 3.7.) Positioning windows 3.7.1.) through Windows NT 3.5 Windows NT 3.5 has the capability to align windows. When clicking the Maximize button the window is maximized to a size which is determined by the virtual resolution of the smaller monitor which is connected to the base board. Maximized and normally sized windows can be moved independently of each other, the system always remembers their last position. Dialog boxes appear on one of both monitors. By default, this option is switched off. It can be switched on as described under 3.7.3.). NOTE: In case of incompatibilities with apllications you use, you cannot use this option. 3.7.2.) miroTWINFACE control - Program for positioning windows Along with the miroTWINFACE drivers, a program for controlling the window positions is copied to your hard disk. This program extends the possibilities for positioning windows the driver offers. When this program is active, dialog boxes, which otherwise appear on both screens. appear on the screen where the mouse cursor is located. When clicking on the Maximize button, the window is maximized on the screen, where the mouse cursor is currently located. Add the "MTWINCON.EXE" program which is located in the "WINNT35\SYSTEM32" directory using the Drag and Drop function of the File Manager to one of your program groups. If you include the program in the Autostart group, the program is active immediately after you have logged in. After the program has been started, it is available as an icon on your desktop. For information on how to configure miroTWINFACE control, refer to 3.7.3.). To close the program, select the "Close" command in its system menu or log out. NOTE: Not all windows can be controlled by miroTWINFACE control. This phenomenon is inherent in the system and must not be regarded as a failure. In case of incompatibilities with apllications you use, you cannot use miroTWINFACE control. 3.7.3.) miroTWINFACE control - Control Panel Extension This extension is copied together with the "miro Monitor Select" extension. Open the Control Panel Program and click the "miroTWINFACE control" icon to configure miroTWINFACE control. To configure the positioning of maximized windows, select the "MAXIMIZE alignment" button (default = off). To configure the positioning of the dialog boxes, click on the "Dialog alignment" button (default = off). The "Alignment by System" button lets you switch on the Windows NT 3.5 alignment function (default = off). To confirm, click "OK" and close the "configuration of miroTWINFACE control". Now, the selected settings are saved and will be used by every application which will be started. To abort the configuration, click on "Cancel". If you changed the "Alignment by System" option, you can restart the system by pressing the "Restart Now" button in the "Alignment Settings Change". You can also go back to the "Control Panel" program by pressing the "Donīt restart now" button. Restart the system using the Program Manager. NOTE: You can also use both options: the Windows NT 3.5 and the miroTWINFACE control alignment. In case of incompatibilities with other applications, one or both options cannot be used available. 4.) Deleting drivers Delete drivers you do not need anymore by enabling another driver using the Display Tool of the Control Panel program and by restarting the sytem afterwards. Then, use the File Manager to delete the display driver (extension .DLL) under \WINNT35\SYSTEM32 and the miniport driver (extension .SYS) and the configuration files (extension .INI) under \WINNT35\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS. 5.) In case of problems In case of problems with the VGA DOS box in the fullscreen mode ask your dealer or miro for an update of the BIOS-ROM. In some cases an unsynchronized image may stabilize by switching between the window and the fullscreen mode of the VGA DOS box. The VGA DOS boxs only supports the resolutions available for a 'standard VGA', e.g. display modes of up to 320x200 pixels with 256 colors or 640x480 pixels with 16 colors. If a DOS application tries to use a higher resolution, the VGA DOS box, or, in the worst case, the hole system might crash. 6.) Special hint Please do not try to install drivers or system-relevant tools which are suited for Microsoft Windows 3.x or Microsoft Windows 95. Windows NT 3.5 does not support these drivers or tools. In the worst case, this may cause a system crash. - eof