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| README file for ELSA ERAZOR X
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| graphics display driver for
| Windows 2000 - Build 2183 and newer
|
| Version: 5.09.00.306
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| Copyright (c) 2000 ELSA AG (Aachen, Germany)
|
| ELSA AG Internet: http://www.elsa.de
| Sonnenweg 11
| 52070 Aachen
| Germany
|
| ELSA Inc. Internet: http://www.elsa.com
| 1630 Zanker Road
| San Jose, CA 95112
| USA
|
| ELSA Asia Inc. Internet: http://www.elsa.com
| 7F-11, No. 188, Sec. 5
| Nanking East Road
| Taipei 105
| Taiwan, R. O. C.
|
| ELSA Japan Inc. Internet: http://www.elsa.com
| Mita Suzuki Building 3F
| 5-20-14 Shiba, Minato-ku
| Tokyo 108-0014
| Japan
|
| 06/20/2000, MKreiten\KLux\MWolf
|
Table of Contents:
1 Introduction
2 List of Installation Files
3 Installation
4 Known Problems
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1 Introduction
This file explains how to setup and to configure the ELSA
Windows 2000 driver software for your graphics board.
1.2 Further Information
For more information on configuring installed ELSA graphics
drivers, refer to the Windows Help or to the help files to
ELSA utilities.
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2 List of Installation Files
The directory with the ELSA graphics driver for Windows NT
contains the following files:
ErazorX.inf script file for the installation
ErazorX.cat catalog file
DISK1 source disk identifier
README.TXT the file you are currently reading
LIESMICH.TXT german version of readme.txt
eezxm.sy_ miniport driver (compressed)
eezxd.dl_ display driver (compressed)
eoglezx.dl_ OpenGL ICD driver (compressed)
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3 Installation
NOTE: This driver was designed for full functionality under
Windows 2000 RC3 (Build 2183) or newer only!
3.1 Installation of the ELSA graphics driver
First shut down your computer and exchange the graphics board
with the ELSA ERAZOR X.
Your graphics board requires an hardware interrupt (IRQ). Please
assign a unique IRQ to the slot which is related to your
graphics board in the mainboard BIOS if it provides this option.
At Windows 2000 startup, it selects the default standard VGA
driver or a driver provided by the graphics chip vendor.
Please note that none of these drivers supports the full
functionality which is provided by this board.
To install this graphics driver you have to ensure to have
administrator rights for your Windows 2000 system. Please close
all running applications before installing any new driver.
There are several ways in Windows 2000 to install a display
adapter, a universal way is to use the 'Device Manager'.
Right-click the icon 'My Computer' on your windows desktop.
Select 'Manage' to start the Windows 2000'Computer Management
Console'. Select the entry 'Device Manager'. The entry of your
graphics adapter is located either in 'Other Devices'
or in 'Display Adapters'. Open the properties window for the
display adapter by right-clicking the entry.
(If there isn't an entry for any display device, you should
right-click the root icon on the right Window and activate 'Scan
for hardware changes'.)
Select the tab 'Driver' and then 'Update Driver' to start the
Windows 2000 'Upgrade Device Driver Wizard'.
Click 'Next to close the welcome dialog and select 'display
a list of known drivers...'. Click 'Next'. Depending on where
the entry has been located, another dialog may appear, asking
what kind of Hardware should be installed. In that case, select
'Graphics Adapter'. After confirmation Windows starts searching
for known drivers. Please select the 'Have disk...' button and
change the entry to the location of your new drivers
(i.e 'E:\ELSA\WIN2000') by the 'browse...' button.
After that, the update device driver window shows a listing of
boards supported by the display driver. Select your hardware and
click 'Next or 'Yes' until the finishing dialog appears.
Confirm and close all dialog windows. If required Windows 2000
will ask for restarting the computer. The driver installation is
finished. To change the display resolution please open the
display properties dialog again (e.g by right-clicking the
desktop and choose 'Properties' from pop-up menu) and select
'Settings'. By clicking the button 'Advanced...' and choose
'Monitor' you will be able to change the refresh rate of your
display. Please note that only display refresh frequencies of
75 Hz or above are suitable for ergonomic working.
Your monitor should be configurated correctly also, to provide
proper refresh rates. To check or do this, start the display
properties like described above, select the 'Settings' tab,
click 'Advanced...', the 'Monitor' tab, 'Properties...', the
'Driver' tab of the following dialog and click on 'Update
Driver...'. The assistant asks for the monitor driver disk.
Please confirm everything, restarting your system won't be
necessary.
NOTE: With the installation of the Windows 2000 driver, the
ELSA OpenGL driver is automatically installed, too.
Please don't use any other OpenGL driver but the
originally provided with the installed display driver
files.
3.2 Making Installation Disks
To create installation disks for the ELSA graphics driver
you will need an empty floppy disk labeled:
"ELSA Windows 2000 DISK 1".
Copy the files from the according graphics board directory
on the driver CD-ROM to the prepared disk.
3.3. Determining the Version Number of the Driver via the Driver
Files
Use the Explorer to inspect the file properties for one of
the files eezxm.sys or eezxd.dll. The file eezxm.sys can be
found in the directory System32\Drivers, the eezxd.dll file
in the System32 directory of your Windows 2000 installation.
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4. Known Problems:
- The display driver is installed successfully, but after
rebooting the system, the driver is not activated.
Your graphics board requires a free IRQ to work properly.
Please assign a unique IRQ to the slot which is related to
your graphics board. Be sure to have no hardware conlicts with
other installed hardware components.
- Some programs will not work correctly because they are not
designed to run with Windows 2000.
- This version will not work with Windows 2000 releases earlier
than RC3.
- There ist no automatically setup program implemented.
Please install this driver manually.
- Some D3D benchmark applications like 3DMark2000
may crash sporadically.
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