****************************************************************************** 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 Thunder/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 Thunder/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. ============================================================================== Thunder/24 for Windows EISA Windows NT 3.5 driver notes Driver software for the Thunder/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: THEISANT -D Example: THEISANT -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 ============ ======== ======== ============================================ THEISANT.EXE 307569 09-29-94| Thunder/24 EISA NT Version 9/29/94 | This is the entire Thunder/24 EISA | for Windows NT 3.5 installation disk. ============================================================================== Installation Procedures ----------------------- This disk contains the final release of the Windows NT 3.5 drivers for the SuperMatch Thunder/24 EISA display cards. Requirements for running these drivers are: - a EISA bus PC-compatible running the retail release of Windows NT 3.5 - Thunder/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 Thunder/24 card in an empty EISA slot if it isn't already installed there. - If you have just installed the Thunder/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 Thunder/24 OEM diskette. - Turn your machine back on and boot up into Windows NT 3.5 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. - Launch the NT 3.5 Control Panel and choose the Display option. - Select "Change Display Type". - Click the "Change..." button. - Click the "Other..." button. - In response to the Install From Disk dialog box enter ':\' according to the drive letter of the floppy drive in which you inserted the Thunder/24 OEM disk. Choose OK. - "Thunder/24 EISA" should now be highlighted in the "Select Device" listbox. Click the "Install" button. - Click "OK" to the "This operation will change your system configuration" warning message box. - When a dialog box asks you for the path to the display drivers, choose OK (it should already have the correct drive specified). The Thunder/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. - 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. 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. Note that once you have selected a monitor, you may use the Control Panel Display applet to switch between the available resolutions. To change monitor types, however, you must run the Resolution Picker again. - After you exit Resolution Picker, the installer will create Program Manager groups to contain the utility programs listed below. At this point, the driver should be successfully installed. Windows NT cannot switch display drivers on the fly, so it will tell you to restart Windows NT for the settings to take effect. Choose "Restart Now" when you are given the opportunity. On restart the Windows NT system should come up utilizing the Thunder/24 display adapter. Utility Applications -------------------- Also copied during installation are several utilities: zoom.exe --> utility to allow hardware 2x zoom An icon for running this utility will have been created in the common Thunder/24 program manager group. If you want it to always be run make sure you copy this icon into your Startup program manager group. Hotkey can be changed via options dialog but default is ALT-UPARROW to cause Thunder/24 display to enter into 2x zoom mode and ALT-DOWNARROW to restore to 1x mode. res.exe --> resolution picker utility An icon for running this utility will have been created in the Administrator's personal Thunder/24 program manager group. Invoke res.exe to specify the type of monitor connected top your system and the resolution you wish to run. The new settings will take effect on your next Windows NT reboot. Once you have selected a monitor with the resolution picker, you may use the standard NT 3.5 Control Panel Display applet to change between the different resolutions supported by that monitor. ntmoncal.exe --> monitor calibration utility An icon for running this utility will have been created in the Administrator's personal 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 Since Last Release ------------------------ 1. Upgraded to be Daytona compliant. 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. This software contains no added fat or sodium.