Installing the FlashPoint Win95 protect mode Driver ---------------------------------------------- Use the FlashPoint DOS ASPI driver, FLASHPT.SYS, to do the initial portion of Win95 install from CDROM. After the system prompts you to reboot , it will continue through the rest of Win95 installation normally using only the BIOS. At no point during the install will you be prompted to provide a protect mode driver for the FlashPoint card. Note that when install is finished and you reboot the system for the first time, you will get a warning that it is not configured for optimal performance and details will indicate that all devices are running in MS-DOS compatibility mode. This is because we are in fact running through BIOS at this point and have not yet installed our protect mode driver. After full installation, take the following steps to install FlashPt.MPD, the Win95 FlashPoint protect mode driver: From the Control Panel, choose Settings, then click on the System icon. Then click on the Device Manager button. Once in the Device Manager, you will see ? Other Devices ? PCI SCSI Bus Controller Click on ? Other Devices, then on PCI SCSI Bus Controller. Choose "Change Driver" , then "Other Devices", then "Unknown Devices", then "Have Disk", to get the OS to prompt you to provide a driver to install for the unrecognized card. When prompted, place a diskette containing the two files FlashPt.MPD and FlashPt.INF in drive A:. After providing the diskette containing our driver, you will see a popup that says: BusLogic FlashPoint PCI SCSI Adapter Has a ROM Windows cannot determine whether it can remove this device safely. To try removing this device , make sure you have closed all your documents and programs and then click Test. If the test is successful, you can probably remove this device safely. If you encounter problems, you cannot remove this device safely while Windows is running. Test Cancel Avoid running the test as it hangs the system. At this point, you will be prompted to reboot so the new changes can take effect. NOTE: If you want to load the FlashPoint Dos driver in config.sys under Windows 95, you must edit the file \Windows\IOS.INI and add the real mode FlashPoint DOS driver (FLASHPT.SYS) to this file (i.e., the "safe driver list") in order to get Windows 95 to allow the protect mode FlashPoint driver (FlashPt.MPD) to load when the real mode FlashPoint driver is present.Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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