Create Diskettes; Video Drivers; Installing Video Drivers For Windows Nt 4.0; Asset Tag Utility - Dell 2200 User Manual

Create Diskettes

The Create Diskettes category allows you to create dis-
kettes of system utilities and operating system-specific
drivers as well as blank formatted diskettes.
V
ideo Drivers
You will need to install the video drivers for the operating
system you install on your PowerEdge 2200 system,
unless they were installed by Dell. Use the following pro-
cedure to install the video drivers for the Windows NT
operating system. NetWare provides a textual interface
and does not require video drivers.
Installing Video Drivers for
Windows NT 4.0
Select the Create Diskettes category from the Dell Server
Assistant CD Main Menu, and create a diskette of soft-
ware drivers for the Windows NT 4.0 operating system.
After you make the diskette of drivers, use the following
procedure to install the video drivers:
1. Insert the diskette of drivers into the diskette
drive on your system.
2. Run the Windows NT Display program located in
the Control Panel in the Main group.
3. Select Change Display Type.
4. Select Change from the display options; then
select Other.
5. When prompted for the correct path, type
a:\ATI and press <Enter>.
If the diskette is not in drive A, change the drive let-
ter designation as appropriate.
After the system reads the diskette, it displays the
ATI Graphics Accelerators option.
6. Select the ATI Graphics Accelerators option;
then click Install.
Confirm your choice when prompted to do so, and
all appropriate files will be copied to the hard-disk
drive.
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7. Restart Windows NT.
The system will start up using the ATI mach64 driv-
ers in 640 x 480 mode and display an application that
allows you to choose a resolution.
The maximum resolutions supported by the built-in
ATI mach 64 video controller with 1 MB of video
memory are 640 x 480 pixels (16.7 million colors)
and 800 x 600 pixels (65,536 colors) (non-
interlaced); and 1024 x 768 pixels (256 colors)
(noninterlaced).
NOTE: If you select a resolution that is not sup-
ported by the ATI mach64 (264VT) video controller
with 1 MB of memory, the operating system will sub-
stitute 640 x 480 in 256 colors.
A
sset Tag Utility
The Asset Tag utility allows you to enter an asset tag
number for your computer. The default System Setup
screen (see Figure 4-1, for example) does not show the
asset tag number unless you enter one using this utility.
NOTE: The Asset Tag utility works only on systems run-
®
ning MS-DOS .

Using the Asset Tag Utility

Use the following procedure to create a system utility
diskette and boot the system:
1. If you have not already done so, create a bootable
system utility diskette from the CD.
2. Insert the diskette in drive A, and reboot the
system.
After you boot the system with the system utility dis-
kette, you can use the Asset Tag utility to enter an
asset tag number that you or your organization
assign to the computer. You can also use the Asset
Tag utility to reenter the computer's service tag num-
ber if that becomes necessary.
You can view the asset tag number using the System
Setup program as described in Chapter 4, "Using the
System Setup Program."