Epson ActionDesk 4000 User Manual - Page 98

Installing VGA and IDE Drivers, installation instructions. The resolutions your system can

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Standard VGA monitors display resolutions up to 640 x 480, and you do not need to install the drivers or utilities for your monitor to operate properly with your application programs at this resolution. Also, your system supports the VESA standard 1.20. If you have programs that use VESA, install the VESA drivers that came with these programs. However, you need to install these drivers if you want to use resolutions over 640 x 480 or take advantage of the following special features: Interlaced and non-interlaced resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 in graphics modes with up to 16.8 million colors in 640 x 480 resolutions 132-column text mode in 16 colors High-speed video memory interface 16-bit data path to video memory and hardware registers Video adapter control of graphics cursor movement. Your computer comes with 1MB of video memory installed on the system board. You can upgrade the video memory to 2MB by installing additional video memory chips. (See Chapter 4 for installation instructions.) The resolutions your system can support for each application depend on the size of your video memory. The Drivers diskette that came with your computer contains drivers for Microsoft Windows, version 3.1. Other drivers are available from the Epson Electronic Bulletin Board; call (310) 782-4531 to request additional drivers. The Drivers diskette also contains a utility program called SetRES, which allows you to change your screen resolutions from within the Windows environment. 6-2 Installing VGA and IDE Drivers

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Standard VGA monitors display resolutions up to 640 x 480,
and you do not need to install the drivers or utilities for your
monitor to operate properly with your application programs at
this resolution. Also, your system supports the VESA standard
1.20. If you have programs that use VESA, install the VESA
drivers that came with these programs.
However, you need to install these drivers if you want to use
resolutions over 640 x 480 or take advantage of the following
special features:
Interlaced and non-interlaced resolutions up to 1280 x 1024
in graphics modes with up to 16.8 million colors in
640 x 480 resolutions
132-column text mode in 16 colors
High-speed video memory interface
16-bit data path to video memory and hardware registers
Video adapter control of graphics cursor movement.
Your computer comes with 1MB of video memory installed on
the system board. You can upgrade the video memory to 2MB
by installing additional video memory chips. (See Chapter 4 for
installation instructions.) The resolutions your system can
support for each application depend on the size of your video
memory.
The Drivers diskette that came with your computer contains
drivers for Microsoft Windows, version 3.1. Other drivers are
available from the Epson Electronic Bulletin Board; call
(310) 782-4531 to request additional drivers.
The Drivers diskette also contains a utility program called
SetRES, which allows you to change your screen resolutions
from within the Windows environment.
6-2
Installing VGA and IDE Drivers