Matrox Meteor-II Installation And Hardware Reference Manual page 39

- When the board fails to start under Windows 2000, the driver might not have
started. Right-click on My Computer, and select Manage from the presented
menu. From the Computer Management explorer window, select System
Tools, followed by Device Manager. If you do not see a Meteor-II device under
Matrox Imaging Adapters, you will have to reinstall the driver.
- When the board fails to start under Windows XP, the driver might not have
started. Click on the Start button, open the Control Panel, select
Administrative Tools, and open Computer Management. From the Computer
Management explorer window, select System Tools, followed by Device
Manager. If you do not see a Meteor-II device under Matrox Imaging Adapters,
you will have to reinstall the driver.
If the above solution for your operating system does not work, try the following.
- The driver also might not start due to too much or insufficient allocation of
DMA memory. To address this problem, re-allocate DMA memory using the
included milconfig.exe utility.
• There is a conflict in the BIOS Setup program. This problem generally occurs
when there is a PCI memory mapping error or when there is a PCI-IRQ routing
error. To resolve this problem with the PCI form factor, first try to swap boards
from one PCI slot to another; for the PC/104-Plus, change the rotary switch
settings. If the problem still persists, try upgrading your BIOS.
If the above solution does not work, try the following to determine if there is an
IRQ conflict.
- Under Windows 2000, right-click on My Computer, and select Manage from
the presented menu. From the Computer Management explorer window,
display the System Tools\ System Information\ Hardware Resources\ IRQs folder.
Check for devices that are sharing an IRQ with your Matrox frame grabber.
- Under Windows XP, click on the Start button, open the Control Panel, select
Administrative Tools, and open Computer Management. From the Computer
Management explorer window, select System Tools, followed by Device
Manager. From the View menu, select the Resources by type, and expand the
Interrupt request (IRQ) folder. Check for devices that are sharing an IRQ with
your Matrox frame grabber.
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