README File

This file contains the last-minute update that is not found in the user's
manual or in any addendum accompanying the display adapter.  Please read
it before proceeding to install anything.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

For Information on Running the INSTALL program please refer
to your User's manual in the Section: 
	    
	    "CONFIGURING YOUR CARD", and "RUNNING THE INSTALL PROGRAM"

GENERAL INFO for NEW INSTALLs:

- In order to match the card to your monitor and to your system configuration
  YOU MUST RUN "SET POWER UP CONFIGURATION"  BEFORE INSTALLING ANY DRIVERS
- PLEASE REFER TO "MAIN SELECTION MENU" in your User's Manual.
- After running "SET POWER UP CONFIGURATION", run Install Device Drivers 
  and EXIT back to DOS.
	      
		  READ THE 'M32PANEL.TXT" file

WHEN YOU INSTALL WINDOWS DRIVERS,  THE "INSTALL DEVICE DRIVERS" WILL CREATE
A FILE NAMED "M32PANEL.TXT" ON YOUR HARD DISK IN THE WINDOWS DIRECTORY YOU
SPECIFIED.
  
PLEASE READ M32PANEL.TXT BEFORE BRINGING UP WINDOWS FOR THE FIRST TIME
  
M32PANEL.TXT CONTAINS INFORMATION RELEVANT TO SUCCESSFULLY STARTING WINDOWS 
 
GENERAL INFORMATION for those wishing to UPDATE WINDOWS DRIVERS only
- Select "INSTALL DEVICE DRIVERS" from the Main Selection Menu.
- Install Device the Drivers desired, and EXIT back to DOS.
- *****     READ THE 'M32PANEL.TXT" file.      *****

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Special Note on AutoDesk Driver

If you will be using our high resolution driver for AutoCAD 386,  AutoShade
or 3D-Studio,  please note:

1)  If you have 1MB on your display adapter,  you may select any
    resolution as long as there is sufficient memory to support 
    the selected display mode/refresh rate (refer to chart at the 
    back of the manual).

2)  If you have 2MB on your display adapter,  you are advised to select any
    resolution having 256 colors or higher. 

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Customer Support Department

Technical Note No. 76 - Graphics Ultra Pro / + Installation Fundamentals
INSTALL HINTS and TIPS


The ATI Graphics Ultra Pro and Graphics Ultra + video adapters represent state
of the art Personal Computer video technology.  While following IBM VGA
standards for producing VGA text and graphics, these adapters require 
additional system resources to produce accelerated video capabilities.  
Adapter installation, while greatly simplified through the ATI INSTALL 
utility, requires a step by step methodical approach to ensure that the 
adapter does not conflict with other system resources and will 
provide optimized performance.

The following technical information is a basic outline of the steps required 
to install an ATI Graphics Ultra Pro or Graphics Ultra + video adapter.


1)    Upon removing the Graphics Ultra Pro/+ card from the box, record the
      serial number (found on the non-component side of the card) and the BIOS
      version (located on a paper label on a plug-in component on the 
      component side of the card) in your user manual.  

      This will assist Customer Support and also ensure that the Warranty 
      form can be properly completed.


2)    Check the system hardware for internal modems, FAX cards or LAN cards
      which may be using addresses at COM4 (2E8) or addresses between the
      range of 2E0 to 2EF.  
      
      Also ensure that LAN cards, scanner cards and other peripheral adapters 
      are not using upper memory addresses between C000 and C7FF.  
      
      If you have a system containing an on-board video controller,
      consult your owners manual on how to disable it.  
      
      Check and record how much system memory is installed on the 
      system motherboard.


3)    Review your CONFIG.SYS file to determine if a Memory Manager DEVICE
      driver is being loaded.  
      Memory Manager device drivers, such as EMM386, QEMM and 386MAX, may 
      interfere with the ATI installation software and should not be loaded 
      until the ATI video adapter has been completely installed 
      
      (for more information on ATI recommended Memory Manager
      configurations, please consult ATI Technical Note: TN069).
		

4)    After powering down your system, remove your old video adapter (or
      disable the on-board video controller) and plug-in the ATI Graphics 
      Ultra Pro/+.  
      
      Connect the video monitor cable and mouse cable to the ATI card
      and power-up the system.  
      
      If the system fails to produce text on the monitor, return to Step 2 
      and re-check the installed hardware for address conflicts.  
      
      If no obvious conflicts are present, carefully remove all non-
      essential peripheral adapters (scanner, FAX/modem, audio, CD ROM cards,
      etc) to determine the nature of the conflict.  
      
      If the system still does not boot, contact ATI Customer Support with 
      the system brand and model number.


5)    Once the system has properly booted, place Disk 1 of the supplied ATI
      Graphics Ultra Pro/+ disks into the appropriate disk drive and run the
      INSTALL program.  
      The INSTALL program may report that it has found the graphics card to 
      be in a "new or changed configuration".  If this message appears, press 
      any key to have the INSTALL program update the Graphics 
      Ultra Pro/+ EEPROM.  
      
      
      If the INSTALL program returns to DOS and states that it could not find 
      a 68800 based video card in the system, return to Step 3 to remove any 
      memory manager device driver from your CONFIG.SYS file.  If a different 
      Error Message appears, carefully record the error message, follow any 
      instructions listed in the message and contact ATI Customer Support if 
      the problem persists.

6)    When the INSTALL program has completed loading and initialization, it 
      will present the following screen:



			      ATI Technologies Inc.
 GRAPHICS ULTRA PRO             Version x.x             Copyright (c) 199x

		    ͻ
		              Main Selection Menu         
		    ͹
		     Set Power-Up Configuration           
		     Set Current Video Mode/Configuration 
		     Test Graphics Adapter                
		     Install Video Adapter Utilities      
		     Install Device Drivers               
		     Install Adapter Interface (AI)       
		    ͼ
 

      The "Set Power-Up Configuration" option must be run on new installations
      to inform the card of what monitor is attached and to determine what 
      video card options will be enabled when the system is booted.  
      Highlight the "Set Power-up Configuration" option and press Enter to 
      get to the following menu:

			      ATI Technologies Inc.                             
 GRAPHICS ULTRA PRO             Version x.x               Copyright (c) 199x 


		    ͻ
		              Main Selection Menu         
		    ͹
		     Set Power-Up Configuration           
    ͻ
                   Set  Power-Up  Configuration               
    ͹
     Monitor Type            : VGA or PS/2 Color              
     Power-Up Video Mode     : VGA (CV80)                     
     VGA ROM Configuration   : 8 bits                         
     Mouse Configuration     : Disabled                       
     Coprocessor Bus I/O     : Auto-select                    
     VGA Bus I/O             : 8 bits                         
     Memory Aperture         : Disabled                       
     VGA Zero Wait State RAM : Disabled                       
     VGA Memory Size         : 512k                           
    ͼ

      Selecting the "Monitor Type" option will produce a list of supported
      monitors.  
      If your monitor is shown, select it from the list and press
      Enter.  
      If your monitor does not appear, select the Custom option from the
      list.  
      
      The Custom option will allow you to configure the vertical refresh
      rate your monitor supports for each resolution (ie: 640x480, 800x600,
      1024x768 and 1280x1024).  
      It is important to review your monitor manual to determine the proper 
      refresh rates to use for each resolution.  Selecting a refresh rate 
      that is too high could damage your monitor 
      (for more information on Custom Monitor configurations, please consult 
       ATI Technical Note: TN068).

      The "Power-Up Video Mode" option determines the DOS text and graphics
      capabilities when the card is powered-up.  Unless the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
      contains programs which can only run on an EGA, CGA or MDA video
      adapter, this option should remain set to VGA (CV80).  This will provide the
      highest level of DOS text and graphics resolution.

      The ATI Graphics Ultra Pro/+ card can use 16 BIT ROM Access to improve
      DOS Text performance.  
      In some systems and/or some system configurations, however, this can 
      cause unusual operational problems (booting problems, applications 
      failing, Windows problems, etc).  
      
      To ensure the most compatible video card configuration, the 
      "VGA ROM Configuration" setting should be set to 8 BIT.  
      This will not significantly impact on DOS performance and will not 
      impact on Windows performance.

      The Mouse port on the Graphics Ultra Pro/+ can be configured to use one
      of two hardware port addresses and an IRQ value between 2 and 5.  
      For most systems the mouse can be configured to use the Primary address 
      and IRQ 5.  
      
      It is important to ensure that no other devices are using the
      selected IRQ or port addresses as unusual mouse operation will result.  
      If another mouse, trackball or pointing device is going to be used on 
      the system, the Mouse Configuration can be left at Disabled.

      The "Coprocessor Bus I/O" selection sets the access method the card 
      will use when sending or retrieving data from its low memory registers.
      For optimum performance, this setting should be configured as 
      "Auto-select".

      Setting the "VGA Bus I/O" setting to "16 bits" provides optimum VGA and
      SuperVGA graphics performance.  The "8 bits" option would be used if a
      monochrome or CGA video adapter were installed in the same system with
      the Graphics Ultra Pro/+ card.

      The "Memory Aperture" feature allows for improved graphics performance
      by placing a video frame buffer in system memory address space.  
      This frame buffer can only be used if unused system memory address 
      space is available.  
      
      In ISA systems, due to limitations of the system architecture,
      there must be less than 12MB of main system memory to allow the Memory
      Aperture to be enabled.  
      If the memory space is not available, this feature must remain disabled.

      Enabling the "VGA Zero Wait State RAM" option will improve DOS text and
      graphics performance.  
      This feature relies on compatible system bus timing and may not function
      properly on all systems.  
      
      If DOS graphics or system operation is unstable, disable this option.

      The "VGA Memory Size" option sets the amount of graphics memory made
      available to VGA and SuperVGA applications.  ATI VGA drivers and VESA
      drivers may restrict resolution and color depth capability if not enough
      VGA Memory is allocated.  
      
      Most Mach32 drivers (ie: ACAD and Windows) override the VGA Memory 
      setting to ensure that all video memory is available to the Mach32 when
      running in accelerated modes.  
      
      The default VGA Memory Size of 512k is best for most users 
      UNLESS the Graphics Ultra Pro/+ has only 1MB of memory.
      
      Graphics Ultra Pro/+ with only 1 MB, the option of "Shared" 
      should be selected.

      Once all of these options have been set, the "F10" key should be 
      pressedto save the configuration.  While the INSTALL program is 
      programming the EEPROM, a 
      "Selected Memory Aperture configuration may conflict.." error
      message may appear.  If the system has 12MB or more system memory and
      the "Memory Aperture" feature has been disabled, ignore this message.  
      If the system CMOS configuration has Video BIOS Shadowing enabled, you 
      will be instructed to reboot the system once the programming of the 
      EEPROM has been completed.  
      
      If this message does not appear, proceed to Step 7, otherwise, reboot 
      the system and run the INSTALL program.


7)    From the INSTALL program Main Menu, select the "Test Graphics Adapter"
      option.  Running the "Test VGA Color Modes" and the "Run Accelerator
      Diagnostics" tests will assist in determining if the 
      Graphics Ultra Pro/+ is operating properly.  
      
      Record any error messages and check the VGA ROM Access and VGA Zero 
      Wait State ROM settings, in the Set Power-up Configuration Menu, 
      before calling Customer Support.

8)    If the diagnostics have passed, reconfigure the memory manager device
      drivers in your CONFIG.SYS file, complete the Warranty Registration card
      and install any application specific device drivers.  
      The installation is now complete.

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For further assistance please contact ATI Customer Support. Please have the 
information, requested in the Customer Support Section of your manual, 
available prior to calling so that we may answer your questions better.

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