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Windows 95/98 & Driver Installation Procedures for FM5400

Please click here for instruction on setting up Windows 98. Please click here for instruction on setting up Windows 95 Please click here for instruction on modifying the Windows 95/98 Setup Boot disk for use on FutureMate™.

[Suspend]	[CD-Rom]	[Audio]	[Video]	[PCMCIA]	[Trackpad]	[IDE]
Along with the system you may have received either a driver CD or Diskette. Use appropriate media when indicated.

Suspend to Disk Partition (Windows 95/98) 1. Boot up from a bootable DOS disk. 2. Insert the disk labeled Suspend to Disk Partition Utility in the floppy drive. 3. From A:\, type 0vmakfil -pXX, where XX is a number greater than the sum of system memory and video memory in megabytes. 4. After partition is created, reboot the system. Return to top

CD-Rom Driver Windows 3.xx 1. Insert the diskette labeled TEAC Quad Speed Driver for DOS & Windows into drive A and run "setup". 2. Choose the default settings when installing. 3. Choose Return to Windows when done. 4. Insert Windows for Workgroup Disk #6 into the floppy drive. 5. Add the [MCI] CD Audio in Windows Control Panel/Drivers Return to top

AUDIO (Windows98/95) Windows 95 5400A implements ESS ES1788 Plug and Play Audio Drive. To set it up, do the following: 1. Go to System \ Device Manager \ Sound, Video, and Game controller. 2. Highlight ESS ES1688 AudioDrive and click Properties \ Driver \ Change Driver \ Have Disk. 3. Select the path D:\ESS1788\WIN95\DRIVER by either using browse or by typing the path directly. 4. Select ESS ES1788 Plug and Play AudioDrive. 5. Reboot system. 6. After Windows 95 restarts, use the Start/Run command to run the Audiorack 32 setup program. Use either the browse command or type the following path directly : D:\ESS1788\APP\SETUP. Windows NT 4.0 1. From the Start button, go to Control Panel / Multimedia. 2. Click on the Devices tab / Add, and select Unlisted Updated Driver. 3. Insert the diskette containing ESS 1788 Audio Driver for NT 4.0, and type in A:\16_1788 as the directory. 4. Select ES 1688/ES1788 AudioDrive 2.00.09, and select OK. 5. After files are copied, reboot the computer. Windows 3.xx 1. Run D:\ESS1788\WINDOWS\SETUP in Windows. 2. Choose Driver Installation, and choose Automatic Board Configuration. 3. Choose Install Software. 4. When all files are copied, restart Windows. 5. Exit Windows. Return to top

VIDEO Windows 95 1. Double click on the Display icon, and choose the Settings tab. Click on Change Display Type. 2. Click on the Change button next to Adapter type, and choose Have Disk. Select the path D:\CLGD7543\WIN95 either by using the browse command or by typing the path directly. Then, choose Cirrus Logic 754X PCI (Cirrus) and click on OK. 3. Click Close to return to Settings. Windows NT 4.0 1. Windows NT Automatically detects the VGA Adapter as Cirrus Logic 754X compatible graphics adapter. Do not change the display adapter type. 2. Go to Control Panel / Settings. 3. Move the Desktop Area slider to 800 x 600, and select either 256 or 65536 colors. 4. Click on Test to test the new settings. After 5 seconds, you will be returned to the settings screen. Click on Apply or OK for the new settings to take effect. Windows 3.xx 1. Run D:\CLGD7543\WINDOWS\INSTALL in Windows. 2. Winmode program will start automatically. 3. Since you have a SVGA screen, choose 800x600. 4. To install DOS VGA Drivers, run D:\CLGD7543\DOS\EINSTALL. 5. Press enter to choose VGA utilities. 6. Choose C:\ as the drive for installation. 7. Type c:\vgautil to be the installation directory. 8. After the installation finishes copying the files, choose Exit Installation. Return to top

PCMCIA (Windows98) Windows 95 1. Go into Control Panel \ System \ Device Manager \ PCMCIA Socket. 2. If there is a "X" mark on the PCIC or compatible PCMCIA controller, then click on Properties and check Original Configuration under Device Usage / General. 3. Click OK and get out of System icon. Windows NT 4.0 1. Go to Control Panel / Ports / Add, and enter the following information : COM Port number 3, Base I/O Port Address 03E8, and Interrupt Request IRQ 5. Insert the Modem card and restart Windows NT. 2. After Windows has restarted, go to Control Panel / PCMCIA. You will see the Modem card identified as the card in slot 0 or 1. Select it, and click on Properties / Resources. 3. Record the resources assigned by Windows NT, and go back to Control Panel / Ports to make adjustments accordingly if necessary. Reboot if any changes were made. 4. Go to Control Panel / Modem, and let Windows NT detect the modem automatically. It should find the modem on COM 3. 5. After it finds the modem, click on Next / Finish. You may use the modem now. Windows 3.xx 1. Run D:\PCMCIA\WINDOWS\SETUP.EXE . 2. If only network cards and modems are used for the PCMCIA, then deselect the boxes labeled ATA Cards, SRAM Cards, and FTL Flash Cards. Then, choose Install. 3. For the number of PCMCIA slots, choose 2 slots. 4. After Setup finishes copying files, remove the diskette and restart the computer. Return to top

Trackpad Driver Windows 3.xx 1. Run D:\TOUCHPAD\TPREV.EXE to determine whether or not you have a Synaptics or Alps trackpad. 2. If you have a Alps trackpad, change directory to D:\TRACKPAD\GPOINT and run setup.bat. Otherwise, change directory to D:\TRACKPAD\SYNAPTIC and run INST31.EXE 3. Choose DOS and Windows installation. 4. For the installation directory, change from c:\temp to c:\gpoint. 5. Press enter to finish installation, and press Esc to return to DOS. Return to top

IDE Driver Windows 3.xx 1. Run D:\UM8673\UM8673\INSTALL4. 2. Choose option 2, "Setup IDE Drivers using safe speed." 3. Press Enter to return to main menu. 4. Choose 3 to quit, and y to reboot system. Return to top