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To make installing your video card easier and more
intuitive, Diamond has provided an installation utility
that will run automatically when you insert the Diamond
SuperCD. From the SuperCD, you can learn more about
Diamond and its products, install software drivers, and
read on-line product manuals.
Installing Windows NT
Software
Installing
Windows 95 Software
InControl Tools for
Windows Software
Installing
Windows NT Software
Put the SuperCD into your CD drive and start the
installation as follows:
- Click the START button in the task bar, select
the option Run and
then select START.EXE from the root directory of
the CD.
- Choose English
as your language for the installation.
- Click the Start Installation
button.
- If necessary, select the hardware for which you
wish to install; this is displayed in the Product
drop-down list. The installation program usually
recognizes your hardware automatically.
- Click the Next
button.
- If desired, enter a path to which the software
will be installed.
- Click the button corresponding to the type of
installation you want. If you select Custom,
a list of software components will be displayed.
Click the check boxes to specify the components
you want to install.
- A README file will be displayed. Please read this
file!
- After you have read the README, click Next.
- When prompted to restart your computer, choose Yes.
- Click Start - Settings - Control
Panel
- Display - Settings,
or click with the right mouse button on the
Windows desktop, select Properties
and Settings.
Set the resolution, color depth, and refresh rate
that best suit your requirements and your
monitor's performance.
- Click OK.
The basic software is now installed.
Installing
Windows
95 Software
The software installation creates the Diamond group
with InControl Tools in the list of programs in the Start
menu.
When you first install your new Stealth II S220 card
in your system and boot Windows 95 for the first time, Windows 95
will inform you that it has discovered new hardware and
will prompt you to install drivers for it.
If you're updating an existing installation or Windows
95's Plug and Play support doesn't request drivers when
you start your system, use the SuperCD's installation program
to install drivers and software for your card.
- Insert the SuperCD into your CD drive.
- When prompted for the location of your driver
files, enter X:\DRIVERS, where "X" is
the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive. For
example, if your CD-ROM is drive D, you would
type D:\DRIVERS.
- Click OK,
and the driver files will be copied to their
destination directories.
Sometimes Windows doesn't find all the files on the
first try and prompts again for the path from which to
install drivers. If this happens, use X:\DRIVERS again.
- When prompted to restart your computer, click OK. A
dialog box will appear, asking if you want to
complete the installation. If you want to install
optional Diamond software, click on the INSTALL NOW button.
If Windows 95 does not
display a message about new hardware when you start your
system, put the SuperCD into your CD drive and start the
installation as follows:
- If the installation program hasn't already
started, click on the START button in the task
bar, select the option RUN, and then select
START.EXE from the root directory of the SuperCD.
- Choose the language for the
software installation.
- Click the START INSTALLATION button.
- Confirm your hardware if necessary and click Next.
- Select either Standard, Custom or Minimal
installation and specify a path on your hard disk
to which the software should be installed. For
the first installation we recommend the Standard
installation, as all necessary programs will be
installed.
Note: Custom installation allows you
to choose which software components you want to install.
If you decide you don't want to install a particular
component, click on it again to de-select it.
- When Windows 95 prompts you to restart the
computer, click Yes.
InControl
Tools for Windows 95 Software
InControl Tools provides a set of easy-access display
and desktop utilities that help you maintain a picture
perfect environment for work or pleasure.
With InControl Tools you can:
- Use a popup menu to instantly switch desktop and
viewport resolutions and zoom in and out on your
viewport.
- Center windows and message boxes to the viewport
or desktop.
- Control other display management features--screen
saver, fast scroll, pan lock, even your hot keys
and popup menus--with menu on/off switches.
- Adjust colour and brightness of video window
- Customize TV output according to your
requirements
- Adjust your system's audio volume with a handy
popup slider bar.
- Add or remove items from your left- or
right-button popup menus.
- For a more detailed description of the different
InControl features please refer to the online
help.
Quick start instructions
When you install InControl Tools, a tray icon is added
to your Windows95 desktop and several new options are
added to your <Display Properties> dialog.
Many of the new features available to you are
activated immediately after installing InControl Tools
and restarting Windows. You can then modify or toggle any
feature on or off, either through the <Display
Properties> dialog or directly from your enhanced
desktop (right button) menu.
To start using InControl Tools immediately after
installation and restart:
1) Click your right mouse button on the Windows
desktop. Your enhanced desktop menu appears. Note that
this is the same Windows95 "right-click" menu
that normally appears, but with several new items listed
above the standard items. These new items are your
InControl Tools enhancements. Check all features and
submenus to review the default settings, e.g.
- Choose Properties.
- Click on the Refresh
file tab.
- The Custom Monitor Utility offers two functions -
Centering the image on your display and setting
your refresh rate, according to your monitor's
capabilities.
- To Center your display, click on the monitor
space on the Refresh and drag your mouse left,
right, up or down until your display is centered.
You can also use your keyboard by pressing the ALT
key in combination with the appropriate cursor
key.
- Select the appropriate refresh rate from the list
provided in the Refresh section of the filetab.
Click Apply
to use the refresh rate you have just selected.
Windows 95 will warn you that your system may not
be able to use the refresh rate you have selected
and ask you if you want to continue. Click Yes
to proceed, No to resume your previous
refresh setting.
Note: If you pick a
resolution/frequency that your monitor can not do,
simply set Windows 95 back to VGA, exit the setup
program, go BACK into the setup program, and set the
Stealth drivers back to the active drivers.
2) Click your left mouse button on the Windows
desktop. Your popup start menu appears. Note that this is
the same menu that appears when you click the Start menu.
Now, however, it's also available as a
"floating" popup menu.
You're now ready to use or customize all of these new
features (such as adding hot key shortcuts).
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