20 Installing the Hardware and Software
Before you Start: Information, Tips, and Hints
Before you install the drivers for your Fire GL 8700
accelerator, make sure your monitor cable is properly attached
to the card.
Do you need a special driver installation?
The software installation procedure later in this chapter
describes how to install the drivers for your graphics card after
you have installed the new card for the first time and have
rebooted your computer.
This section offers some additional tips if you want or need to
install the graphics card drivers in a special working scenario,
for example, if you have re-installed your operating system, or
if you want to perform a manual installation.
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You can always install the drivers using the
Quick Start
utility on the Fire GL CD.
The Quick Start utility will start automatically, if you
insert the Fire GL CD into your CD-ROM drive after the
operating system has started. If your CD-ROM auto-run is
not enabled and/or the Quick Start program does not start
automatically:
Click the
Start
button in the task bar, click
Run
, and then
select
START.EXE
from the root directory of the Fire GL
CD.
•
Select
Readme
from the
Fire GL CD
start menu to
display a readme file. Refer to this file for additional and
‘last minute’ information. Information in this file may not
appear in printed documentation or online help.
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Where are the drivers? When prompted for a driver
installation CD, insert the
Fire GL CD
and enter or
browse to the path corresponding to your operating system
.
\NT4
- for Windows NT 4.0
\NT5
- for Windows 2000
\XP
- for Windows XP
•
You must be running Windows XP, Windows 2000 -
updated with Service Pack 1 (or newer), or Windows NT
4.0 - updated with Service Pack 5 (or newer), before
installing the Fire GL 8700 drivers.
