Matrox Video card installation on XEN-PCLS
(Feature card)
Failure of Matrox Driver Installation
When installing the Matrox drivers the user is prompted for the
directory path from which Windows is being run, the setup routine confirms the validity of
the path by verifying that WIN.COM is present in that directory. However, with
pre-installed WFWG on a system, WIN.COM is renamed WINN.COM until WINNET.BAT is run and so
the Matrox driver installation fails.
The Apricot Factory Pre-installed software includes the AMD Ethernet
drivers already installed and configured in WFWG.
If the system is booted without a network connection and Windows loaded
with <WIN> rather than <WIN /N>the system will appear to hang as WFWG is
waiting for a network response.
To stop this occurring Apricot have made the following modifications to
the WFWG installation. WIN.COM is renamed WINN.COM. A batch file called WIN.BAT is present
which runs the command WINN /N and displays the following message :
Microsoft Windows for WorkGroups will now start with
network drivers disabled.
When you have correctly installed this system onto your network you can re-enable the
network drivers by typing WINNET.
The short term solution
Run WINNET.BAT first before loading Windows then run Windows with the /N
switch unless the system is connected to a network and then run the Matrox setup program.
This change will be implemented in the next release of pre-installed
software. |
