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Titolo: Ecco i passi fondamentali per l'Installazione di RT2000... Lungo

Sto per installare ex novo RT2000 su una nuova MB: la Asus P3V4X, Chipset
Apollo VIA PRO133a (provo a lasciare l'Asus P3B-F) e mi sto premurando di
fare tutte le cose a puntino (matrox indica di installarla nello SLOT 4).
Nel NG di Matrox ho trovato indicati alcuni steep generali che qui
ripropongo.
Se avete indicazioni aggiuntive da darmi sono ben accette.
In particolare non so:
1) Credo come prima cosa, dopo l'installazione di Win98SE di dover
installare i driver per il CHISET Apollo VIA PRO133a giusto? Devo usare
quelli su CD della scheda madre o ce ne sono di più recenti?
2) a che punto dell'installazione (e se devo farlo...) dovrei aggiornare il
sistema con le DirectX 7.0a
3) Devo inserire una scheda di rete 3Com nel PC e ho sentito che c'è una
patch per Win98SE: Shutdown Suppliment, che dovrebbe ovviare ad alcuni
problemi in fase di spegnimento del sistema, patch che non sono riuscito a
trovare su Internet. Sapete dove trovarla e soprattutto: SERVE?
4) Scheda sonora: seguendo i consigli Matrox, la inserirò dopo aver montato
gli altri componenti. Userò una SBlaster Live!, che matrox suggerisce
d'installare solo con i driver di base e non tutti gli altri ammennicoli che
SB si trascina dietro. In precedenza io l'ho installata con gli
"ammennicoli" e non ho riscontrato problemi di alcun tipo. Cosa mi
consigliate in proposito?
Ecco qui i suggerimenti  di:
RT2000...@MATROX.COM
Member
Posts: 372
From:
Registered: Mar 2000
 posted May 21, 2000 10:29 PM
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Hello All,
A few tips that some of you may or may not know:
Before I begin, I cannot emphasize enough to read the manual AND the release
notes, cover to cover.
1-If you find that you have to reformat the system drive, when issueing the
format command in DOS, try typing this:
format c: /s /q
The /s means to copy system files from the boot disk (this is normal), the
/q is to perform a quick format (should take about 5 seconds on a 10 gig
drive).
2-Throw in a couple of case fans, especially if you're using SCSI drives.
They tend to heat up quickly. Heat is bad for any kind of computer system.
Use the fans even if you don't have SCSI, they cost about $6.00 CDN.
3-Now right after a fresh install, the first thing I make a point of doing
is updating the Busmaster drivers and AGP chipset drivers for the
motherboard, plus any inf update utilities, be it from a website or from
cd-rom. The trick here is to have those drivers downloaded BEFORE a
reformat. Update the BIOS. Using a validated motherboard? Use what we have
posted on the hardware list. Using an unvalidated motherboard, I would go
with the latest version.
4-I would then go through the BIOS, with the motherboard manual at hand and
set the aperture size and turn off power management.
Can't set the Aperture size? Keep reading.
5-Open Autoexec.bat and Config.sys in notepad. Delete any and all entries
and then save them. Autoexec.bat and Config.sys are only used to initialise
drivers and apps for DOS. They can do more harm than good.
6-Install the RT2000 and then the drivers, as well as the drivers for the
G400 if not already installed. THE DRIVERS ONLY, not Matrox Video Tools yet.
7-Reboot the computer and set the resolution.
If you get prompted to Install Matrox Video Tools, ignore and close that
window. Turn off power management for win98, it's in the display properties
under "Screensaver" at the bottom of the window.
8-Install and update Premiere, reboot.
9-Go to Device manager and enable DMA on all IDE drives and cdroms. Have
drives on a Promise Fasttrack66 and can't enable DMA? Don't worry, this is
normal, Win98 thinks it's SCSI. Reboot.
10-Once again, if you get prompted to Install Matrox Video Tools, ignore and
close that window. Go to C:\Windows\Temp and delete the contents. Insert RT
cd and initialise the RT2000 setup from the cdrom. Reboot.
11-You may get an error message that DMA was not enabled, close the window.
Go to Start->Run, and type msconfig. Under the "General" tab select
"Selective Startup", then uncheck "Process autoexec.bat file" and "Process
Config.sys file". Then head on over to the "Startup" tab. The only things
that should be checked are:
-ScanRegistry
-SystemTray
-LoadPowerProfile (maybe there twice, that's OK)
-MfxVfxStartup
the rest should be unchecked, as anything else can be started manually.
Reboot.
12-Put Premiere and RT through some paces.
Keep getting the Aperture size not correct message? Now is the time to
install the AGPfix if your BIOS won't go to 256 (see tip #4).
13-Now is the time to install the rest of the hardware, one at a time with
minimal drivers as needed. Now after installing one device, give Premiere a
spin and see how it goes. Keep going in the same fashion, good idea is to
reboot after every install, even if not prompted. If a device does give you
trouble, try moving it to another slot, uninstall it's drivers before
moving.
14-Installing the soundcard, I would only use the bare minimum drivers, no
extra frills, bells and whistles software. SBLive? Try using only the latest
downloaded drivers as stated in a previous post in this thread. Once again
the trick is to have those downloaded drivers beforehand. I would not
install the soundcard until RT2000 is up and running.
15-Now, if a certain device keeps "following" an RT2000 device on the IRQ
listing, for example a network card, do not despair, there is an answer
(next tip).
15-One of the things I like about Win98 is the ability to create a hardware
profile. To do this successfully, see my posting here:
http://forum.matrox.com/rt2000/Forum1/HTML/000157.html
I believe that any system used for Video editing should ALWAYS have it's own
profile.
DISABLING a device does not work too well, REMOVING it in an RT2000 specific
profile does. Keep in mind one thing, a device used for video editing that
shares IRQ with RT2000 devices, even in a new hardware profile may still
require to be moved in the slot order. Give Premiere a spin and check it out
first before moving anything.
17-As you keep adding new software, don't forget to run msconfig and keep
those extra apps from loading (see tip #11).
RT2000 specific devices are:
-Matrox RT2000
-1394 Texas Instruments OHCI host controller
-G400 flex 3d
Regards,
Tech Support
A.M.

wow!!
ci son un paio di cose che io non ho fatto.....
la storia del driver dell'AGP, sara' importante?
e ho installato la G400 *insieme* alla RT !!!
aaah! adesso mi hai messo la pulce nell'orecchi e riprovo la procedura da
zero!!!
cmq grazie per il post, sul manule della RT2000 non sono per nulla cosi'
precisi!
ShaZan
P.S. ma tu l'hai installata? ti funziona?

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