And mouse support for the external PS/2 port. The default setting is “Enabled”. If you disable
this setting none of them will work.
HDD Block mode
The default setting for these two is “Disabled”.
VIDEO DRIVERS & UTILITIES
The WinBookXP uses video display drivers to support several screen resolutions and numbers of
colors. A Windows video driver set for the optimum setting of 640x480x256-colors is already
installed when you get the computer. The advantage of using this driver over the standard
Windows VGA driver is that this one takes advantage of the WinBookXP’s video display
circuitry to speed up graphic display. It also offers more colors than the stock 640x480x16-color
VGA driver that comes with Windows.
Alternate drivers for Windows are on the hard disk, if you have a system with pre-loaded
software, as well as on video driver floppy disks that come with the computer. You can use the
same driver you use for the LCD screen for an external monitor, or you can change to another
one. The Windows drivers support several resolutions and number of colors displayed, including
two HiColor modes at 640 x 480 that display approximately 32,000 and 64,000 colors.
There are also high-resolution display drivers for a number of DOS programs. There are
installation instructions for them in the “Readme” text files that come with the drivers.
The DOS drivers are included on the floppy disks, which come with your WinBook, and, if you
have a system with pre-loaded software, are on your hard disk. They are in the \DRIVERS\WD
directory, and include drivers for such popular DOS programs a AutoCad, WordPerfect, and
Word for DOS> The drivers for these applications are located in separate directories for each
application within the \DRIVERS\WD directory. If you are not using any of these DOS-based
applications, you can delete the drivers from your hard disk. If you need them later, you can
install the drivers from the floppy disks.
Windows Video Utilities
In addition to the Windows video drivers, you get two Windows utilities that allow you to
change drivers from within Windows and to adjust some display features.
The utilities, Western Digital Video Driver Setup and Video Changer, are from Western Digital
Corporation, the maker of the WinBookXP’s video controller and driver software. Both are in
the “Main” Windows program group.
Western Digital Video Driver Setup
The main purpose of Video Driver Setup is to install Western Digital video drivers. When you
run the utility, the list in the box shows the currently installed options. The default WinBookXP
256-color driver supports resolutions of 640 x 480, 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 at 256 colors.
Remember, however, that you can only see the higher resolutions on an external monitor. Using
Video Driver Setup is reasonably straightforward and since the drivers you’re likely to want are
already installed, you may not need to use this utility. The “Help” feature explains in detail how
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