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3 Interface Devices and Mass-Storage Drives
Matrox MGA Millennium Graphics Controller Board
Drivers are supplied with the computer. At the time of release, these bear
the following version numbers:
❒
1.22p for Windows for Workgroups 3.11
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3.17b61 for Windows 95
❒
2.30 for Windows NT 4.0.
Video BIOS
The Matrox MGA Millennium board has a flash video BIOS that can be
updated like a system BIOS, using a flash utility. This is achieved as follows:
1
Create a DOS boot diskette, and copy the following files to it:
• xxxxxxxx.bin (a binary file whose name depends on the version)
• dos4gw.exe
• progbios.exe
• updbios.bat
2
Switch off the PC, and take out the Matrox board (this is necessary since
the board switches are not accessible whilst it is in place).
3
Set SW-1, on the Matrox board, to ON (BIOS unprotected).
4
Reinstall the Matrox board, insert the boot diskette, and switch on the PC.
5
Run the
updbios.bat
command file or
progbios.exe -i *.bin
.
6
Switch off the PC, and take out the boot diskette and the Matrox board.
7
Set SW-1, on the Matrox board, to OFF (BIOS protected).
8
Reinstall the Matrox board, and switch on the PC.
Executing
progbios.exe -d
allows the BIOS revision date to be checked.
The video BIOS revision number can be checked by clicking on the MGA
control panel (Display Properties/MGA Settings/Advanced for Windows 95).
1.
1152
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882 is not preset on HP displays
Number of
Colors
256 64 K
Hi-Color
16.7 M
True-Color
16.7 M
True-Color
Bits per Pixel
8 162432
2 MB 1600
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1200 1024
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768 800
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600 800
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600
4 MB 1600
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1200 1600
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1200 1280
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1024 1152
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882
1
8 MB 1600
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1200 1600
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1200 1600
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1200 Not supported