User guide

3. Driver and software installation
3. DRIVER AND SOFTWARE
INSTALLATION
3.1 Introduction
About
This chapter will guide you through the installation of the drivers, software and documentation associated
with your Barco Display System or Barco Display Controller(s).
You will need to install the Barco Display Controller system drivers and software in the following cases:
• After you have installed the Barco Display Controller(s) for your Barco Display System in your system
for the first time.
• After you have reinstalled or upgraded your operating system.
• When you upgrade to a newer version of the MXRT driver and software.
- You do not need to manually uninstall an existing driver before updating to the current version.
The Barco Product Installation Wizard will detect any prior installations and start the uninstallation
process automatically if necessary.
- If you have a previous version of Conference CloneView application installed in the system, you
need to terminate the application prior to installing the new version. To do so, bring up Barco
Clone Display(s) configuration window, select Stop Cloning,andcloset
he window.
After each driver installation, you should reboot the system before proceeding with the installation of an-
other driver.
Prerequisites
Before starting the installation of the Barco drivers, software and documentation following prerequisites
must be adhered:
• Your operating system must be installed and running. Following versions of Windows are supported:
- Windows 7 32-bit
- Windows 7 64-bit
- Windows 8.1 32-bit
- Windows 8.1 64-bit
• You must be logged on as a user with administrator privileges.
• All Barco displays must be connected to the appropriate Display Controller(s) in your system.
• When there is a non-Barco display controller in the system, we recommend that you first install the
driver for the non-Barco board before installing the Barco drivers, software and documentation.
3.2 In stallation pro cedure
To install the drivers and software
1. Start your system.
If you have a fresh OS installation, or you have uninstalled an existing driver, the OS may automatically
install an inbox driver from the Windows 7 driver store, either an AMD driver or a standard VGA driver,
for the Barco Display Controller(s). If this occurs
, the OS prompts you to restart your computer, click
Yes to allow the automatic driver installation to complete and reboot the system.
2. Launch the Barco Product Installation Wizard.
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