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Sierra Semiconductor can be reached at (408) 263-9300.
MS Windows 3.X HiColor Drivers For 86C911A/924 From S3 Inc.
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(RELEASE 2.00 Beta 09/30/92)
Copyright (C) 1992 Sierra Semiconductor
Copyright (C) 1991-1992 Binar Graphics Inc.
Portions Copyright (C) 1983-1991 Microsoft
Sierra can be reached at 408-263-9300.
System Requirement
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1. i386 CPU and above.
2. S3 Video BIOS Version 1.9 or higher, dated July 20, 1992
or later.
Disk Contents
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README.TXT -- This File
S3A6448H.DRV -- 640x480 32768-color
(Sierra DAC SC11482/483/484 and 1M video memory required)
S3A8060H.DRV -- 800x600 32768-color
(Sierra DAC SC11482/483/484 and 1M video memory required)
S3A6448T.DRV -- 640x480 16M-color
(Sierra DAC SC15025/6 and 1M video memory required)
S3B6448T.DRV -- 640x480 16M-color with different colok setting
(Sierra DAC SC15025/6 and 1M video memory required)
Note on the 640x480 16M-color drivers
Driver1 (S3A6448T.DRV) should work with most S3 86C911A/924 based
VGA GUI accelerator cards. If Driver1 does not work, please try
Driver2 (S3B6448T.DRV) which sets a different pixel clock frequency.
Known Bugs
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The following problems are known bugs, they will be fixed on next release.
Any bug/problem report is very welcome.
* Due to a hardware problem of the 86C924 chip, in 640x480 16M-color
mode, three lines on the left side edge of the screen are missing.
Also, some time a red line may appear on the left edge of the screen.
* In Microsoft WINDOWS Display Compatibility Test, the following
tests fail
1. DTA MISC ROP3 operations 41,4e,62,6d,6e,91,92,9d,b1,be
2. DIBVIEW BITMAP FORMAT TEST
Installation
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1. First install MS Windows 3.X using the standard IBM VGA driver.
2. Make sure Windows 3.X is working properly.
3. Change to Windows 3.X directory (e.g. c:\windows), run SETUP.EXE.
4. Insert enclosed disk, change display driver to "Other...".
5. Enter the path of the HiCOLOR driver (e.g. A:\ ).
6. Select a suitable HiCOLOR driver.
7. Follow instructions to finish SETUP.
IMPORTANT NOTE
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If you have installed previous version of the Windows 3.0 HiCOLOR drivers
from Sierra Semiconductor Corp., you will have to delete the old HiCOLOR
driver files BEFORE you use SETUP to install the new drivers, otherwise
SETUP will NOT copy the new driver files to your Windows 3.0 directory.
The files which you should delete are in Windows 3.0 SYSTEM sub-directory
(e.g. c:\windows\system\ ), they might be:
S3A6448H.DRV, S3A6448X.DRV
S3A6448T.DRV, S3B6448T.DRV
S3AVDD.386
S3AVGA.GR3