System Software; Installing The Audio Driver; Installing The Graphics Driver - ECS P5GX-M User Manual

System Software

The support software for this mainboard is supplied on either a CD-ROM disk, or a
floppy diskette, depending on the configuration of the mainboard. Some mainboard
configurations do not need all the software described in this chapter.
♦ Bus master IDE driver
Please notice that the support software for this mainboard is supplied without
IDE Bus Master Driver for the time being. Thus, this board can not run IDE
Driver under the Bus Master Mode and it can not support Ultra DMA33
neither. The chipset vendor Cyrix just provide us IDE Driver beta version at
this stage, we will provide the complete IDE Bus Master Driver in the next
version.
♦ Audio driver
♦ Graphics driver
♦ PCI Bridge Driver

Installing the Audio Driver

1. Go to the System Properties window (Start/Settings/Control Panel/system).
2. Click on the Device Manager tab and select the "View Devices by type" radio
button.
3. Under System Devices, make sure to remove the items "Unknown Device" and
"PCI Multimedia Audio Device" on the "? Other devices"
4. Close the System Properties window.
5. Go to the Add New Hardware window (Start/Settings/Control Panel/).
6. When the wizard pops up to help you install new hardware, click next once. In the
next window, select "No", you do not want Windows to help you search for new
hardware. Click Next to proceed.
7. In the next window, select Sound, Video and Game Controllers when asked to
pick the type of hardware you want to install. Click Next to proceed.
8. In the next window, click the Have Disk button. The program then prompts you to
type a path name where it can find the proper driver. The Sound Driver can be
found in the a:\audio\win95 directory of the disk provided.
9. The program will then list all the drivers available on that disk, make sure to pick
"Cyrix Corporation" and "XpressAUDIO (TM) 16-bit Sound". Proceed and
follow the directions onscreen.

Installing the Graphics Driver

1. Close all programs.
2. Go to the Display Properties window (Start/Settings/Control Panel/).
3. Click on the Settings.
4. Click on the Advanced Properties button.
5. On the Adapter window, click on the Change button.
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