---------------------------------------------------------------------- S3 Video Device Driver for Windows NT 4.0 README File ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file contains procedures for installing the S3 Trio3D video device driver for Windows NT 4.0. It also contains other video-related procedures. The following topics are included in the file: 1.0 Supported Color Depths and Refresh Rates 2.0 Installing the S3 Video Device Driver for Windows NT 4.0 3.0 Changing the Video Settings 4.0 Setting Your Monitor to VGA Mode 5.0 Trademarks IMPORTANT NOTE: Because the Trio3D operates as an AGP device, Service Pack 3 for Windows NT 4.0 must be installed on your system for the device drivers to work properly using AGP. If you do not install the service pack, the drivers will not not work correctly and Windows NT will default to VGA operation only. Service Pack 3 is available for free download from Microsoft's web site at http://www.microsoft.com/. 1.0 Supported Color Depths and Refresh Rates _____________________________________________ +================+=========================+====================+ ³ Resolution ³ Color Depths ³ Refresh Rates ³ ³ (Pels) ³ ³ (Hz) ³ +----------------+-------------------------+--------------------+ ³ 640 x 480 ³ 256, 32768, 65536, ³ 60, 72, 75, 85 ³ ³ ³ 16777216 ³ ³ +----------------+-------------------------+--------------------+ ³ 800 x 600 ³ 256, 32768, 65536, ³ 56, 60, 72, 75, ³ ³ ³ 16777216 ³ 85 ³ +----------------+-------------------------+--------------------+ ³ 1024 x 768 ³ 256, 32768, 65536, ³ 43 interlaced, ³ ³ ³ 16777216 ³ 60, 70, 75, 85 ³ +----------------+-------------------------+--------------------+ ³ 1152 x 864 ³ 256, 32768, 65536, ³ 60, 70, 75, 85 ³ ³ ³ 16777216 ³ ³ +----------------+-------------------------+--------------------+ ³ 1280 x 1024 ³ 256, 32768, 65536 ³ 43 interlaced, ³ ³ ³ ³ 60, 75, 85 ³ +----------------+-------------------------+--------------------+ ³ 1600 x 1200 ³ 256, 32768, 65536 ³ 48 interlaced ³ ³ ³ ³ 60, 75, 85 ³ +================+=========================+====================+ *** Trio3D Video Modes Table *** Screen Color Desktop Video Memory Refresh Rate (Hz) Resolution Depth Modes Required Available ================================================================================ 320x200 256 2 MB 70 320x200 65536 2 MB 70 320x200 16.7M 2 MB 70 320x240 256 2 MB 72 320x240 65536 2 MB 72 320x240 16.7M 2 MB 72 400x300 256 2 MB 72 400x300 65536 2 MB 72 400x300 16.7M 2 MB 72 512x384 256 2 MB 70 512x384 65536 2 MB 70 512x384 16.7M 2 MB 70 640x400 256 2 MB 70 640x400 65536 2 MB 70 640x400 16.7M 2 MB 70 640x480 256 X 2 MB 60, 72, 75, 85 640x480 32768 X 2 MB 60, 72, 75, 85 640x480 65536 X 2 MB 60, 72, 75, 85 640x480 16.7M X 2 MB 60, 72, 75, 85 800x600 256 X 2 MB 56, 60, 72, 75, 85 800x600 32768 X 2 MB 56, 60, 72, 75, 85 800x600 65536 X 2 MB 56, 60, 72, 75, 85 800x600 16.7M X 2 MB 56, 60, 72, 75, 85 1024x768 256 X 2 MB 43(I), 60, 70, 75, 85 1024x768 32768 X 2 MB 43(I), 60, 70, 75, 85 1024x768 65536 X 2 MB 43(I), 60, 70, 75, 85 1024x768 16.7M X 4 MB 43(I), 60, 70, 75, 85 1152x864 256 X 2 MB 60, 70, 75, 85 1152x864 32768 X 2 MB 60, 70, 75, 85 1152x864 65536 X 4 MB 60, 70, 75, 85 1152x864 16.7M X 4 MB 60, 70 1280x1024 256 X 2 MB 43(I), 60, 75, 85 1280x1024 32768 X 4 MB 43(I), 60, 75, 85 1280x1024 65536 X 4 MB 43(I), 60, 75, 85 1600x1200 256 X 2 MB 48(I), 60, 75, 85 1600x1200 32768 X 4 MB 48(I), 60, 75, 85 1600x1200 65536 X 4 MB 48(I), 60, 75, 85 2.0 Installing the S3 Video Device Driver for Windows NT 4.0 ______________________________________________________________ Note: If your computer has IBM-preinstalled software, the video device driver for Windows NT 4.0 has already been installed on the hard disk of your computer. However, the information included in this file will be helpful if you ever need to reinstall or update the device driver, or if you want to change the video settings. ****Installing your new S3 Video Driver for Windows NT 4.0.**** 1. Start system with Windows NT 4.0 installed. 2. IMPORTANT: When the "Please select the operating system to start..." message is displayed, select "Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]". 3. From "Start", select the "Settings group", then click on the "Control Panel" icon. 4. In the "Control Panel", double click on the "Display" icon. 5. In the "Settings" screen, click on the "Display Type..." button. 6. From the "Display Type" screen, and in the "Adapter Type" section, click on the "Change..." button. 7. In the "Change Display" screen, click on the "Have Disk..." button. 8. Insert the new display driver diskette into the A:\ drive, then click on the "OK" button. 9. From the list of displayed S3 devices, select your S3 device. 10. From "Third-party Drivers", click on the "Yes" button to proceed. 11. If a message appears stating the driver is already installed on the system, and asks if you want to use the current or new drivers, be sure to select the "New" button. 12. If prompted for the driver diskette a second time, click on the "Continue" button. 13. When the message "The drivers were successfully installed" is displayed, remove the display driver diskette, then click on the "OK" button. 14. Back at the "Display Type" window, click on the "Close" button. 15. Back at the "Display Properties" window, click on the "Close" button. 16. When you see the "System Settings Change" window, asking if you wish to restart your computer, click on the "Yes" window to reboot now. NOTE: If installing Windows NT 4.00 with the S3 device currently installed in the system: Proceed through the Windows NT installation as normal. The installation program will prompt the user to choose a display mode. Choose the "Cancel" button from the "Display Settings" screen to ignore this step for now. The installation will now finish. Once Windows NT has started for the first time, proceed to follow the steps outlined above to install the driver for your S3 device. 3.0 Changing the Video Settings ________________________________ To change the video settings: 1. Start Windows NT. 2. Click on the START button, select SETTINGS, and then click on CONTROL PANEL. 3. Double-click on the DISPLAY icon. The Display Properties window appears. 4. In the Display Properties window, click on the SETTINGS tab. 5. Make the desired changes to any of the color palette, font size, desktop area, or refresh frequency; then click on TEST, OK, and then YES. 6. When the changes are satisfactory, click on APPLY and then YES to resize the display dynamically. 4.0 Setting Your Monitor to VGA Mode _____________________________________ To set your monitor to VGA mode: 1. Start Windows NT. 2. Click on the START button, select SETTINGS, and then click on CONTROL PANEL. 3. Double-click on the DISPLAY icon. The Display Properties window appears. 4. In the Display Properties window, click on the SETTINGS tab. 5. Click on the DISPLAY TYPE button. The Display Type window appears. 6. Under Adapter Type, click on the CHANGE button. 7. Under Manufacturers, click on STANDARD DISPLAY TYPES; under Display, click on VGA COMPATIBLE DISPLAY ADAPTER; then click on OK. 8. Insert the appropriate Windows diskettes or CD-ROM, if requested. 9. Click on OK, CLOSE, CLOSE, and then YES to restart your computer. 5.0 Trademarks _______________ The following terms are trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the United States or other countries or both: IBM The following terms are trademarks of other companies: S3 and Trio S3 Incorporated Microsoft and Windows NT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. Appendix A: Package Specific Installation Instruction This update is packaged as a self-extracting Package for the web (PFW). To unpack, this update requires that your TEMP environment variable be set to a path with read/write access. You must be logged in as an administrator. The command-line syntax for Package-For-The-Web Driver update package is: Package.exe [-s] [-a [-s] | [-x directory] | [-?] ] [-s] This initial -s tells the Package-For-The-Web software to install silently and will not prompt if files need to be over-written in the %temp% directory. [-a] Tells the Package-For-The-Web software to pass all subsequent commands to the install package (i.e. the update). [-s] The second -s option indicates to run the update silently and unattended. For firmware updates the update is scheduled to run on the next reboot. An immediate reboot can be forced with the -r option. [-x directory] Use with firmware updates to extract the update to directory named directory. Since the Package-For-The-Web extracts itself to subdirectory in the %TEMP% directory, a relative directory will be relative to that location. Normally the user will want to specify an absolute directory. [-?] Display information about the command line switches. Only the apply-update-silently (-s) option is necessarily unattended, that is the other command line options such as display help (-?) may require the user to "hit any key" to continue. If Windows packages are run without any command line options, a GUI is displayed. This GUI offers all the options available at the command line, except that the -w option is not available.