Specifications

Liquid Silver v5.6 Configuration Cookbook
6-Apr-04
Page 10
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.com/ntworkstation/downloa
ds/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp). After
installation, open the TweakUI applet in Windows
Control Panel and do the following modifications:
- Tab “Mouse”: set “Menu Speed” to “Fast”
- Tab “General”: deactivate / uncheck all
4. VGA Driver Installation
– After the installation is complete and you re-
boot the machine insert the Matrox Driver CD
when prompted to install the VGA drivers.
– Follow the onscreen instructions to add / update
drivers for Plug&Play components.
5. DualHead Setup, Screen Refresh Rate.
Resolution and Hardware Acceleration
– Open the Matrox Quickdesk application (from
quick launch area of Windows Task Bar), click on
“Settings”, then “Advanced”
– Click on tab “Options”; under section
“Performance” set “Use busmastering” to “off”
– Go to “DualHead” – “Features” - “DualHead
Multi-Display”; change settings”Use DualHead
Multi-Display” and “Same resolution and color
palette for both displays”
– Set “Secondary Monitor Limits” under
“Advanced Settings” to 1024 x 768 @ 75Hz
– Go to “Properties”-Tab and set resolution to
2048x768
– Set “Screen Refresh Rate” under “Monitor” to
75 Hertz and click OK
– Under tab “Troubleshooting” set “Hardware
Accelaration” slider one step back to one below
maximum
6. Adaptec Driver Update
- Download the driver archive:
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/Adaptecv1
.2.0.0.zip
- Unpack the archive to a local path
- Install driver 6.2.0.0 located in (your local
path)\WinXP\U160 by updating the existing one for
both channels in Device Manager
7. Reboot computer
8. BIOS Version
Check BIOS version, if necessary update to version
1.27 (download BIOS from
http://www.compaq.com/support/files/evoworkstatio
n/us/locate/20_1332.html and follow the instructions
provided there)
9. Shutdown computer
10. Internal Storage (optional)
– Connect 4 video drives (see section “Configuration
Options”) to Channel A (together with system drive)
– power up computer
– go to Windows Computer Management / Disk
Management, create and format stripe set
– assign “R:” as drive letter
11. Shutdown computer
12. Liquid Silver Hardware Installation
– Install silver. hardware as specified in section “Slot
Assignment” of the cookbook
– Connect dongle to appropriate port
13. Power up computer and cancel all “New
Hardware found” messages that appear during
system start (many!)
14. Liquid Silver Software Installation
Insert Liquid Silver installation CD and install the
application software
15. Reboot computer