Liquid Silver v5.6 Upgrade Cookbook Liquid Silver v5.6 Upgrade Cookbook Version 1.
TABLE OF CONTENTS CAVEAT UPGRADER ..................................................................... 3 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................ 3 RELATED DOCUMENTS................................................................. 3 SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS .......................................................... 4 How Much RAM Is Necessary? ............................................................................................................
Caveat Upgrader There are two categories of Liquid Silver users who will need to follow separate upgrade instructions to prepare their systems for a Liquid Silver v5.6 installation: 1. Customers using HP xw6000 have to upgrade to Windows XP Professional 2. Customers using the Compaq Evo W8000 workstation or legacy systems (3 height units chassis and 5 height units chassis with ASUS CUV4X-DLS main board) must not upgrade to Windows XP. These systems do not fully support Windows XP! 3.
System Considerations How Much RAM Is Necessary? Liquid Silver requires a minimum 512 MB RAM. 1GB is recommended for demanding use of all features. Operating System Windows XP Professional SP1 (including DirectX 9.0a or 9.0b) is required for the following turnkey: • HP XW6000 workstation All other systems – including the previous turnkeys • Compaq W8000 • ASUS CUV4X-DLS based 3/5 U systems must not be upgraded to Windows XP.
Upgrading HP xw6000 to Windows XP There are 3 things you will need to do to upgrade your xw6000 to get Liquid Silver v5.60 up and running: 1. Update your system BIOS to v. 1.17 2. Update OS using Pinnacle’s Windows XP Restore CD for HP xw6000 3. Install Liquid Silver v5.60 Update Your System BIOS If your system is not running the certified xw6000 BIOS version 1.17, please upgrade your BIOS. You can download the BIOS from the HP support site: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.
5. At the end of the restore process, remove the DVD from the drive and reboot the computer with CTRL-ALT-DEL. The system should restart with Windows XP SP1. 6. You will see the windows desktop. If your Silver hardware is installed, a number of dialog boxes will appear asking if you want to install drivers. Click Cancel for each of these. If your system has a connection to the Internet, you may want to download the most recent Microsoft system and security downloads.
SYSTEM SUMMARY: Main Board: IMAGE: HP system board BIOS: RAM: HP System ROM v. 1.17 512 MB PC2100 ECC DDR 266 registered, 1024 MB recommended CPU: Dual Intel Xeon CPU 2.66 GHz or 2.8 GHz SCSI: Adaptec AIC-7902 Ultra320 Dual Adapter driver V1.2.0.0 BIOS build 40030 VGA: Matrox G450 or G550, Graphics Bios 1.0 b09, Power Desk 6.86.027, driver: 5.86.32.0 LAN: onboard Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver: 6.34.0.
Upgrading Compaq Evo W8000 to Liquid Silver 5.60 There are 2 things you will need to do to upgrade your xw6000 to get Liquid Silver v5.60 up and running: 1. Update your system BIOS to v. 1.27 2. Install Liquid Silver v5.60 Update Your System BIOS If your system is not running the certified BIOS version 1.27, please upgrade your BIOS. You can download the BIOS from the HP support site: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/evoworkstation/us/locate/20_1332.html#0 Step 1. - Download the ROMPaq file.
SYSTEM SUMMARY: BIOS: Compaq System-BIOS v1.27 RAM: 512 or 1024 MB PC800 RDRAM, ECC (1024 MB recommended) CPU: Single or dual Intel Xeon CPU 2 or 2.2 GHz (single 2 GHz is standard) SCSI: ADAPTEC AIC-7899 Ultra160 Dual, driver 6.2.0.0 (available from Pinnacle support), BIOS Rev.: 2.55.2 VGA: Matrox G 450 AGP DH Driver Package 5.86.032 (WHQL certified); Kernel driver 5.12.01.1860, Power desk 6.86.027 (Graphics BIOS 2.0 B36) Audio: RME DIGI96/8 PAD Broadcast, driver 2.
INSTALLATION PROCEDURE for Liquid Silver 5.60 Turnkey System: 1. VGA Card As the VGA card is not pre-installed from Compaq’s side, it has to be installed to the AGP slot by the integration factory. 2. Windows Installation (Recovery CD) Power up the computer and follow the on-screen instructions until Windows 2000/SP4 is installed. 3. Windows Optimization Download and install TweakUI.exe (version 1.33) from Microsoft’s homepage (http://www.microsoft.
Upgrading Legacy Turnkey Systems to Liquid Silver 5.60 If you have a legacy turnkey workstation, you cannot perform a Windows XP upgrade. Silver turnkeys 1 and 2 (3 / 5 height units 19” chassis, ASUS CUV4X-DLS main board) are not supported under Windows XP. You can keep your current Windows 2000 Professional installation, but you should install all available and recommended system and security updates from the Microsoft web site. This may include DirectX 9.
APPENDIX A – Backing Up and Archiving Projects What happens when you create a project in Silver? PROCEDURE 1. Create a project in Liquid Silver called ‘orange’. 2. A folder gets created on the system drive: C:\program files\Liquid Silver\projects\orange 3. This folder is the project and will be the location for all files connected to that project except the media, CGs and any imported graphics or sound. 4. A file gets created in the C:\program files\Liquid Silver\projects\orange folder called orange.
BACKING UP PROJECTS There are two ways to back up the project folder. 1. Liquid Silver has a project backup function in the start menu’s ‘projects’ menu (“save a copy…”). This function creates a copy of the current project to whatever destination you specify. No digitized material or CGs or imported material is backed up. 2. The second method for backing up is to simply use Windows explorer to copy the project folder to whatever destination you specify (do not change the folder names in the backup copy!).
‘archive’ attribute from them. Once all the files and folders have had their attributes removed Liquid Silver will be able to operate on that project. Project.project File If the .project file is not located in the same folder as the project Liquid Silver will not be able to ‘see’ that project. This file can be recreated by creating a new text file and saving it with the project name and a file extension of .project.
