Dell 610 Personal Computer User Manual


 
Using the Software Support Utilities 2-7
The driver for Windows NT 4.0 has also been copied to your hard-disk drive in
diskette-image form. If you need to reinstall or remove this driver, you can do so as
described in the following subsections.
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NOTE: To install the Microsoft updated ATAPI driver for Windows NT 4.0, you must
have a mouse connected to the system and Windows NT 4.0 must already be
installed on the hard-disk drive connected to the primary EIDE channel.
To reinstall the Microsoft updated ATAPI driver for Windows NT 4.0, perform the fol-
lowing steps:
The Program Diskette Maker is available through the Dell Accessories program
folder. For more information, refer to the online help provided in the Program Dis-
kette Maker.
a:\setup.bat
A black screen will quickly appear and disappear, which indicates that the driver
file has been loaded. Setup automatically saves the existing atapi.sys driver as
atapi.000 and loads the new driver into the system32\drivers subdirectory in the
Windows NT directory.
NOTE: To enable or disable direct memory access (DMA) while using the Microsoft
updated ATAPI driver, run
dmacheck.exe
from
\support\utils\i386
on the
Microsoft
Windows NT Service Pack 3
CD-ROM.