Nt 4.0 ( Intel Based Workstation ); Heidi - Asus 3DP-V500TX User Manual

III. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

NT 4.0 ( Intel based workstation ):

• Open the Control Panel in the Main Program Group and start the Display Applet.
• Press the "Change Display ..." button. A new window titled "Display Type"
will appear.
• Press the "Change..." button in this window. A window titled "Change Dis-
play" will appear.
• Press the "Have Disk ..." button in this window. A window titled "Install from
Disk" will appear.
• Specify the path A:\. Insert the driver floppy for your machine architecture
into the drive and press "Ok". The "Change Display" window will appear
with two sb-windows. Select the chip type in the left hand sub-window and
the nearest board type in the right hand sub-window and press "Ok".
• Then follow the instructions and quit the control panel applet. When asked if
you want to restart the machine press "Yes".
Note that for NT 4.0 there are no options to select a given resolution at install time.
When the machine reboots NT 4.0 allows the video mode to be dynamically changed
without the need for a reboot.
The machine will now shutdown. On restart again choose the non-VGA boot op-
tion. It will restart using the ASUS 3DP-V500TX Board as the display device. This
can be checked by opening the "Display" applet again and pressing the "Change
Display Type..." button. The "Display Type" window should report that it is run-
ning on a ASUS 3DP-V500TX.
If the desired resolution, depth and frequency have not been chosen at install time
then open the Display Applet to define the required resolution, color depth and monitor
frequency. This selected mode can be tested to ensure that it can be handled by the
monitor. For running the default 3D demos a resolution of 1024x768 with 4096
colors is recommended. Selecting 75Hz is desirable if the monitor can support this
frequency. On some double buffered applications the higher refresh rate allows
higher frame rates to be achieved. For NT 4.0 the display will change dynamically;
for NT 3.51 a reboot is necessary.
The above procedure installs the NT display driver, control panel applet and the
OpenGL installable client driver. Once the display resolution and pixel depth have
been appropriately re-configured the machine is ready to run both Windows NT and
OpenGL applications and demos.

Heidi

To install the latest version of your GLINT Heidi driver, locate your 3DStudio Max
directory on your hard drive and then enter the Drivers sub-directory. Rename the
file in there "wglint.hdi" to "wglint.bak". Then copy the new "wglint.hdi" from
the floppy diskette to the Drivers directory. You can now run 3DStudio Max, and
the new driver will be used.
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