****************************************************************************** This is an UNSUPPORTED beta driver for use with Windows NT 3.5. This software will always remain a beta version because no further updates are planned. It is, however, quite stable after months of internal and external testing. ****************************************************************************** ============================================================================== Windows 95 Note The Spectrum/24 EISA board will not be updated beyond this driver version, nor will it be supported under Windows 95. Windows 95 expects a user-accessible base MMIO address, and since the Spectrum/24 EISA board pre-dates these requirements by several years and offers no MMIO interface, it will not be possible to retrofit or upgrade it to run under Windows 95. ============================================================================== Spectrum/24 for Windows EISA Windows NT 3.5 driver notes Driver software for the Spectrum/24 EISA card for Windows NT 3.5. All files located in this directory are compressed into a self extracting archive using the PKZIP file compression software. No software is required to de-compress these files. After your files have been downloaded, simply use the following command to extract the files: SPEISANT -D Example: SPEISANT -D A: The example above will place the unziped files on to your A: drive.The "-d" option will extract the original directory hierarchy on to the designated drive. Filename Size Date Description of File Contents ============ ======== ======== ============================================ SPEISANT.EXE 307569 10-18-93| Spectrum/24 EISA NT Version 10/18/93 | This is the entire Spectrum/24 EISA | for Windows NT 3.5 installation disk. ============================================================================== Installation Procedures ----------------------- This disk contains the final beta release of the Windows NT 3.5 drivers for the SuperMatch Spectrum/24 EISA display cards. Requirements for running these drivers are: - a EISA bus PC-compatible running the retail release of Windows NT 3.5 - Spectrum/24 EISA display card This procedure is considerably different from the procedure used with Windows NT 3.1. NT 3.1 used the Windows Setup utility to change display drivers. NT 3.5 uses the Display option of the Control Panel utility. - Turn your system off and install the Spectrum/24 card in an empty EISA slot if it isn't already installed there. - If you have just installed the Spectrum/24 card, make sure that you run your EISA configuration utility to correctly locate the card in your machine's physical address space. An EISA configuration file resides on the Spectrum/24 OEM diskette. - Turn your machine back on and boot up into Windows/NT on your VGA card. - Make sure that you are logged in as Administrator on your system. The install will not be successful unless you do the installation as the system administrator. - Insert the enclosed OEM disk into your floppy drive and run the Windows/NT setup program. - Select Change System Settings from the Options menu and then drop down the Display listbox. Select 'Other (Requires a disk from a hardware manufacturer)' - In response to the Insert Diskette dialog box enter ':\' according to the drive letter of the floppy drive in which you inserted the Thunder OEM disk. Choose OK. - In response to the Select OEM Option dialog box (in which Spectrum/24 EISA should be displayed) choose OK. - When you come back to the Change System Settings dialog box choose OK. - When the Windows/NT Setup dialog box comes up and asks you for the path to the display drivers choose OK (it should already have the correct drive specified). The Spectrum/24 display drivers will be copied to the appropriate Windows NT system directories and auxilliary files will be copied into a "%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\supermac" subdirectory. After files have been copied, a program manager group will be created to contain icons for the utility programs provided. A hardware confidence test may be run by selecting Yes in the MessageBox which will appear. Providing the board passes the hardware confidence test a Resolution Picker program will be run. This program requires that you select an appropriate monitor and resolution for your system. Do this, save your changes, and then exit the Resolution Picker program. - When the Windows/NT Setup window reappears (after all the above actions have taken place) select Exit from the Options menu. When you see the restart system message to enable the changes to take effect, shutdown and restart your system. On restart the Windows NT system should come up utilizing the Spectrum/24 display adapter. Utility Applications -------------------- Also copied during installation are several utilities: res.exe --> resolution picker utility An icon for running this utility will have been created in the Administrator's personal SuperMatch Spectrum/24 program manager group. Invoke res.exe to specify a new resolution and virtual desktop setting. The new settings will take effect on your next Windows NT reboot. ntmoncal.exe --> monitor calibration utility An icon for running this utility will have been created in the Administrator's personal SuperMatch Thunder/24 program manager group. Invoke this utility to adjust your monitor's gamma and color balance. Any new settings take effect immediately and on every reboot thereafter until changed by the administrator. gamma.exe --> monitor gamma adjust utility This program is not installed as an icon in any of the created program groups. It can be installed from or run from %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\supermac. Invoke this utility with no command line parameters to adjust your monitor's gamma values (ie: brightness of all guns or each individual color gun). This utility is not as comprehensive as ntmoncal.exe but provides a quick adjust capability. Each user may have their own gamma adjustment upon login to their account by adding gamma.exe as an icon in their Startup program manager group with the following commandline: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\supermac\gamma.exe load When run from the Startup group with the 'load' commandline option, gamma.exe loads the user's gamma adjust values from the user's registration database, loads the adjusted color palette to the display card, and then terminates. Fixed or Enhanced Since Last Release ------------------------------------ 1. Fixed up problem with Resolution Picker screen centering. Technical Support For technical support for this product, you may call Radius Technical Support at: 1-408-541-5700. For priority access to technical support for assistance with this product, please call Radius Technical Support at: 1-900-555-6275, or 1-800-573-6275. Also virtually all of the information about this product, including compatibility and common questions and answers can be found, free of charge, on our technical faxback system at (800) 332-9225.