Installation guide

Matrox Graphics Card – Installation Guide 27
Solution If possible, update your Matrox display driver. Matrox makes new display drivers
available on the Matrox Web site (www.matrox.com/mga
) and BBS (see page 38).
Solution Windows 95/98: Disable Matrox hardware acceleration.
1 Right-click the My Computer icon on the Windows desktop background.
2 Click Properties  Performance  Graphics.
3 Move the Hardware acceleration slider to None.
4 Click OK  Close  Yes to accept the changes and restart your computer.
Cause Windows 95/98: There may be a conflict between resources in your system.
Solution 1 Right-click the My Computer icon on the Windows desktop background, then
click
Properties  Device Manager.
2 Click the plus sign next to Other devices (if it appears) and Display adapters.
3 Delete any display adapter other than the one for your Matrox graphics card.
4 Restart your computer.
Problem PowerDesk controls can’t be accessed in Windows 98
Cause
Matrox PowerDesk is disabled in multi-display mode in Windows 98.
Solution To access PowerDesk controls, you can disable multi-display mode:
1 Right-click the My Computer icon on the Windows desktop background, then
click
Properties  Device Manager.
2 Click the plus sign to the left of the Display adapters.
3 Double-click the name of a Matrox display
adapter to open a properties dialog box.
Enable the
Disable in this hardware profile
check box, then click
OK.
4 Repeat step 3 until all display adapters are disabled, except the one for your
primary display.
5 Click Close  Yes.
Note: If you identify a program that doesn’t work well with Matrox acceleration, please
contact Matrox technical support (see page 39) and describe the problem. This information may
help us come up with a fix or work-around in a future driver release.
Note: Your primary display can’t be disabled.