3. Downloading And Installing The Drivers
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3.1. Downloading The Drivers
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To download the drivers from the 3Dlabs website, go to the Drivers section of
http://www.3dlabs.com and select the appropriate drivers for your card then download the driver file into an appropriate scratch directory (e.g. C:\3dlabs).
3.2. Installing The Card
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To install your 3Dlabs graphics adapter:-
1.) Shutdown the computer and power-off.
2.) Insert the adapter, power-on and boot-up into Windows 2000 or XP.
After logging-in the Hardware Wizard will appear. These drivers are provided with their own installer so you should hit the cancel button for any "Found New Hardware" dialogs that appear.
3.3. Installing The Drivers
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If you are upgrading from a 2.15 driver you must first make sure that the 2.15 driver was installed via InstallShield (i.e. installed using setup.exe). You must uninstall the 2.15 driver via the Add/Remove Programs icon in the control panel. This is to ensure that there are no problems upgrading from 2.15 to 2.16. If you are upgrading from 2.15 but don't have an InstallSheild version of 2.15 please upgrade your 2.15 driver first (you can download drivers from the 3Dlabs website).
Go to the directory where you unzipped the drivers and run w2k216XXXX.exe. This launches the '3Dlabs Graphics Driver Setup' program, which will guide you through the process of installing your driver. The setup program will ask you for confirmation before installing any drivers. You should hit the "Yes" button each time.
Once setup has completed, you will need to reboot your system in order for the drivers to load.
NB. You may be asked to install more than one driver for some boards. This is because Windows 2000 & XP require a driver for each rendering device on the adapter. For example, Oxygen GVX210 adapters require three drivers: one for the GLINT Gamma geometry accelerator, and one for each of the two GLINT R3 graphics accelerators.