HP Vectra VL 5/xxx 5 manual Video Bios, 1024 768 800 600, 1600, 1280

3 Interface Devices and Mass-Storage Drives

Matrox MGA Millennium Graphics Controller Board

Number of	256	64 K		16.7 M		16.7 M
Colors		Hi-Color		True-Color		True-Color
Bits per Pixel	8		16		24	32
2 MB	1600 ✕ 1200	1024	✕ 768	800	✕ 600	800 ✕ 600
4 MB	1600 ✕ 1200	1600	✕ 1200	1280	✕ 1024	1152 ✕ 8821
8 MB	1600 ✕ 1200	1600	✕ 1200	1600	✕ 1200	Not supported

1.1152 ✕ 882 is not preset on HP displays

Drivers are supplied with the computer. At the time of release, these bear the following version numbers:

❒1.22p for Windows for Workgroups 3.11

❒3.17b61 for Windows 95

❒2.30 for Windows NT 4.0.

Video BIOS

The Matrox MGA Millennium board has a flash video BIOS that can be updated like a system BIOS, using a flash utility. This is achieved as follows:

1Create a DOS boot diskette, and copy the following files to it:

•xxxxxxxx.bin (a binary file whose name depends on the version)

•dos4gw.exe

•progbios.exe

•updbios.bat

2Switch off the PC, and take out the Matrox board (this is necessary since the board switches are not accessible whilst it is in place).

3Set SW-1, on the Matrox board, to ON (BIOS unprotected).

4Reinstall the Matrox board, insert the boot diskette, and switch on the PC.

5Run the updbios.bat command file or progbios.exe -i *.bin.

6Switch off the PC, and take out the boot diskette and the Matrox board.

7Set SW-1, on the Matrox board, to OFF (BIOS protected).

8Reinstall the Matrox board, and switch on the PC.

Executing progbios.exe -dallows the BIOS revision date to be checked. The video BIOS revision number can be checked by clicking on the MGA control panel (Display Properties/MGA Settings/Advanced for Windows 95).

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