Installation & Setup User Guide - Best Access Systems

Installation & Setup User Guide
2MB FlashPoint ISA users should note that the extra 1MB is for increased
performance and does not offer you any additional VGA modes over the 1MB
FlashPoint ISA board.
6. Those setting up a CCTV video station. Using the table that follows, set the
Desktop area and then the Windows color palette based on the model of
FlashPoint board you have and the amount of VGA frame buffer memory
(VGA RAM) it has. The table favors a larger desktop size over a true color
Windows color palette to allow room to display other windows along side
the Video Verification window within Alarm Monitoring. Video Verification
video is for live display only so its quality is not as important as it is for a
capture station. (More advanced Windows users can choose other settings as
long as they use the guidelines listed in step 4.)
Model(s)
VGA
RAM
Desktop
area
Windows 98
color palette
Windows 2000 color palette
FlashPoint Lite 128,
FlashPoint 128
FlashPoint Lite 128,
FlashPoint 128,
FlashPoint Lite PCI,
FlashPoint PCI
4MB 1024 by 768 True Color (24 bit) 16777216 Colors
2MB 1024 by 768 High Color (16 bit) 65536 Colors
FlashPoint ISA
1MB or
2MB
800 by 600 High Color (16 bit)
(actually 15 bit,
see step 5d)
65536 Colors
7. Select “Small Fonts” in the Font Size field. B.A.S.I.S. does not support
large fonts. B.A.S.I.S. dialog text fields and controls do not line up correctly
when “Large Fonts” is selected
8. Click [Close] or [OK].
9. If you made any changes to the form:
• You may be prompted to restart your computer. If so, select [Yes]
Windows will start up with the newly selected Windows color palette,
desktop area and refresh frequency.
• If you are not prompted to restart your computer, Windows will adjust
the display to have the newly selected Windows color palette, desktop
area and refresh frequency. (You may be asked if the new settings look
okay and if you want to keep the new settings.)
Step 6: Install FlashPoint software
1. If you have not already done so, run the FlashPoint software setup program
(setup.exe on disk 1 of the FlashPoint Setup software diskettes). In the setup
program’s list of things to install, select only the FlashPoint FPG capture
application software (deselect everything else). It is not necessary to install
the FlashPoint Overlay MCI driver, Video for Windows driver, ImagePro
driver, and DOS software
2. Reboot your computer if prompted to do so.
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