SPEA Hotline Information
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Trouble Shooting Guide .......................... Windows95 - Configuration
SPEA V7 series                                               Release 0695.5
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Dear user,

the following text contains hints, tricks and solutions for common
problems and requests.
Many of them came from other users in the field. We would like to thank
them for their contribution.

IMPORTANT NOTE
Please check also the references to driver updates and to
system-configuration in the respective helpfile.

Yours sincerely
                the Support-Team of SPEA SOFTWARE AG


Windows95 beta - Configuration
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Questions                                                         !.Answers
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Are final Windows95 drivers available ?                           !.G1

How to install the drivers ?                                      !.G2

The graphics board cannot be proper initialized by the driver ?   !.G3

The graphics board will be detected by Windows95 but the drivers
offers no higher resolution than 640x480 ?                        !.G3

The selected S3 driver does not work well ?                       !.G4

Corrupted icons are displayed ?                                   !.G5

No high refresh rates are available ?                             !.G6

Characters are not correctly represented, pixel-leftovers,
lost pixels ?                                                     !.G7

System hangs using the DOS box, the DOS-Prompt doesn´t turn up ?  !.G8


Windows95 - Configuration
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Answers
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G1  For the SPEA V7 boards with S3 chipset are special Windows95 drivers
    available: SPEA BigWin95 (Mailbox, CompuServe)
    Other SPEA V7 boards:
    Please  install the regarding Microsoft driver or the SPEA BigWin
    driver for Windows 3.x

G2  V7 S3 boards: To install the BigWin95 only use V7SETUP!

    For STORM PRO, VEGA PLUS, VEGA PRO, MIRAGE VL - the driver for Windows 3.x
    has to be used. Reconfigure Windows95 for standard VGA and use V7SETUP to
    install/configure BigWin.

G3  Using a graphics board with S3 Chip please make shure that the VESA
    driver V7*VBE.EXE is already loaded (AUTOEXEC.BAT) and the varible
    GDC=... has been set.

G4  Please make sure that the correct type of graphics board was selected:
    S3 VISION864 - not S3 864 for V7-Mirage P-64.
    S3 VISION964 - not S3 964 for V7-Mercury P-64.
    The S3 801/928/964 driver can not be used for Mirage VL >>> install the
    SPEA drivers for Windows 3.x!

G5  Click with right mouse buttom onto the desktop, "Properties"/"Display",
    select in list "image" "symbol", change the size under (i.e. 32 to 40),
    select "save" and change back to 32.
    Now the icons will be displayed correctly, upto the next change of the
    resolution.

G6  The refresh rate of the driver in Windows95 will be defined by the monitor
    selection/configuration.
    If you use the SPEA BigWin driver the refresh rate can be configured with
    the V7SETUP utility.

G7  SYSTEM.INI - [car1k.drv] - set CHIPSYNC=1.

G8  This function is not supported by the actual SPEA Windows 3.x driver under
    Windows95.

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