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ASUS V3800 Series Readme for Windows 95/98
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Installation Steps
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You can use 4 methods to install Windows 95/98 display driver:
Suppose the path of your driver CD is "D:\" and Use Windows 95 as an
example.(Similar process can be followed in Windows 98.)
Method 1 (PnP installation)
1. Remove your previous video adapter and plug your V3800 in system.
Start Windows. Windows will find a new device and pop up a PnP dialog
that asks for its driver.
2. Type the "D:\Win9x" for Windows to find the INF file of V3800.
3. Windows will install its driver automatically and then request for
restarting.
4. Choose Yes to reboot your system. The driver will work when Windows
comes up.
5. Note that this method will not install DirectX runtime libraries.
You must install it by yourself. You also can not uninstall display
driver.
Method 2 (Display property page)
1. Start Windows, switch display to VGA mode, then restart.
2. Press right key of mouse on your desktop and select "Properties".
3. Click the "Settings" tab.
4. Click "Change Display Type".
5. Click "Change" button on the right of the first item "Adapter Type".
6. Click "Have Disk.." button - "Install from Disk" box will appear.
7. Click "Browse" button - "Open" box appears.
8. Select your CD drive in the "Drives" selection on the bottom.
9. Double click "Win9x" in the "Folders" selection.
10. "ASUS3800.INF" appears in the filename selection.
11. Click "OK" button.
12. You will see a list of video cards. Select type of your VGA card
and click "OK".
13. After copying all files of the driver, it will back to
"Change Display Type".
14. Select Monitor type if necessary.
15. Click "Close" button and "Display Properties" box appears.
16. Click "Apply" button and "System Setting Change" box appears.
17. Click "Yes" to restart your Windows.
18. When Windows starts up, your video adapter is now ready to use.
19. Note that this method will not install DirectX runtime libraries.
You must install it by yourself. You also can not uninstall display
driver.
Method 3 (ASUS Autorun. Quick installation)
1. Start Windows.
2. Put ASUS driver CD into CD-ROM drive.
3. The AutoPlay function of CD-ROM will work and pop up ASUS Autorun
window.
4. Select Install V3800 Series display driver option.
5. Follow the instructions on dialog. Driver will be installed and
request for restart.
6. Reboot system and your video adapter is now ready to use.
Method 4 (Run ASUS installation program directly)
1. Start Windows.
2. Put ASUS driver CD into CD-ROM drive.
3. Change to "D:\Win9x" directory and execute "V38SETUP.EXE". You also can
change to "D:\Win9x\West" or "D:\Win9x\East" directory (depending on
your language) for multi-language support installation.
4. Run "setup.exe".
5. Follow the instructions. Driver will be installed and request for
restarting.
6. Reboot system and your video adapter is now ready to use.
Installation Notes
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a. If you are working under windows 95 , you have to install DirectDraw
before installing MPEG driver and player. The DirectDraw installation
files can be found at \DIRECTX6.
b. If your motherboard uses Intel, VIA or ALi chipset with AGP bus,
you can install their AGP GART driver by executing VGInst.exe under
\VGARTD directory. It will enable their AGP functions on Windows 95
OSR 2.1 (If your motherboard uses SiS AGP chipset, please contact
SiS for newest driver to be compatible with ASUS V3800 Series).
c. Windows 95/98 OpenGL ICD and video capture driver (for TV models only)
have been included.
d. Quick installation works only when it finds that Primary Display is
V3800 Series or device node exists. You can also ignore the warning dialog
and continue to install driver. If it do not work, you must install
driver via Windows PnP dialog or Display property page(use ASUS3800.INF).
Trouble Shootings
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1. After installing the driver, Windows 95/98 doesn't prompt me for restarting
and the driver still doesn't work after I reboot it by myself.
You may have installed similar drivers before. Try the following steps
to install:
(1) Use right button of mouse to click on "My Computer" icon on desktop.
(2) Select "Properties" and "System Properties" box appears
(3) Click on "Device Manager" tab
(4) You will see a list of devices on your computer.
(5) If "Display adapters" appears in the list, click it.
If "Display adapters" doesn't appear, jump to step 9 and continue.
(6) The name of your card will be listed in the box. Double click it.
(7) The properties box of your card appears. Select "Driver" tab.
(8) Click "Change Driver.." and follow the installation steps.
(9) Click "Other devices" you will see your card is listed.
(10) Click on the name of card, the properties box appears.
Select "Driver" tab.
(11) Click "Change Driver.." and follow the installation steps.
2. After installation and restarting, Windows 95/98 informs me that display
setting is still incorrect. What can I do?
There may be conflict between previous and current display drivers.
This is caused by not complete removal of previous display driver. Try
the following steps to remove it:
(1) Use right button of mouse to click on "My Computer" icon on desktop.
(2) Select "Properties" and "System Properties" box appears
(3) Click on "Device Manager" tab
(4) You will see a list of devices on your computer.
(5) Open "Display adapters" in the list (double click it).
(6) You will find two (or more) conflicted adapters listed here.
(7) Remove all previous adapters by selecting them and press "Remove"
(8) Close Device Manager and restart Windows 95.
(9) Now display driver will work correctly.
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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.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.