User Guide

18 Installing the Fire GL4
Start your System
Switch on your monitor before you switch on your computer. Failing
to do so could damage your monitor.
If you have correctly installed the card, operating system messages
will appear on your monitor when the boot procedure is finished.
Your System Does Not Start as it Should?
•
Check again to verify that the installation instructions were
properly followed.
•
Check that the system BIOS has assigned a system interrupt to
the AGP slot where the card is installed.
Check the system configuration utility of your operating system
for the interrupt assignments.
Inspect your system BIOS setup for an option that says "Assign
IRQ to VGA" or something similar and ensure that this option is
enabled.
• Some older ISA legacy add-in cards (with jumpers, non-Plug-n-
Play) may cause a conflict if they are not configured in the
ESCD (extended system configuration data) area of the system
BIOS. Please refer to your computer’s User’s Guide for
information on using the ISA Configuration Utility (ICU) to add
legacy card resource requirements to the system.
•
Please refer to the
Troubleshooting
section for more
information, if it appears that the card is not performing
optimally.
• Contact the Technical Support.
Note
Your monitor is running in standard VGA mode. Higher
refresh rates etc. are not available at this stage of the
installation. After you have successfully installed the Fire
GL4 drivers you can use the dialogs in the Display
Properties menu to adjust the video settings and set up a
multi-monitor configuration.