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HP Vectra VL 5/xxx Series 5 User Manual

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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
❒ 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 ✕ 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

16

24

32

2 MB

1600 ✕ 1200

1024 ✕ 768

800 ✕ 600

800 ✕ 600

4 MB

1600 ✕ 1200

1600 ✕ 1200

1280 ✕ 1024

1152 ✕ 882

1

8 MB

1600 ✕ 1200

1600 ✕ 1200

1600 ✕ 1200

Not supported