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ASUS AGP-V3100 Series User’s Manual

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FCC & DOC COMPLIANCE

Federal Communications Commission Statement

This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following
two conditions:

This device may not cause harmful interference, and

This device must accept any interference received, including interference that
may cause undesired operation.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B
digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to
provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installa-
tion. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if
not installed and used in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions, may cause
harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that
interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause
harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by
turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter-
ference by one or more of the following measures:

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which
the receiver is connected.

Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

WARNING!

  The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the

graphics card is required to assure compliance with FCC regulations.  Changes
or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for
compliance could void the user’s authority to operate this equipment.

Canadian Department of Communications Statement

This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions
from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Cana-
dian Department of Communications.

Summary of Contents for AGP-V3100

Page 1: ...R AGP V3100 Series 3D Multimedia Accelerator USER S MANUAL Hardware Video Drivers AGP V3100T AGP V3100TV ...

Page 2: ... the serial number of the product is defaced or missing Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trade marks or copyrights of their respective companies and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners benefit without intent to infringe IBM and OS 2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines S3 and Savage3D are tradem...

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Page 5: ... All Drivers and Utilities 12 Install VGARTD 13 Install DirectX 6 14 Install AGP V3100 Display Driver 15 Install Video Player 16 Using Video Player 16 Change Resolution and Color 17 TV Setting 17 Advance Setting 17 Refresh Rate 18 To Adjust the Refresh Rates 18 Remove Display Driver 19 Using the Autorun Screen 19 Using Control Panel 19 IV Windows NT 4 0 20 Install NT4 0 Display Driver 20 Remove NT...

Page 6: ...rticular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outle...

Page 7: ...Cable 2 S VHS Cable 1 Composite Cable 2 Composite Cable Software DVD Player optional Software DVD Player optional Features Built in 128 bit Savage3DTM Graphics Engine Accelerator 128 bit 2D GUI and DirectDraw Acceleration 8MB 125MHz SGRAM frame buffer X and Y up and down video scaling Software VCD Player MPEG 1 Software DVD Player MPEG 2 with motion compensation 250MHz Palette DAC Built in VIP Bus...

Page 8: ...Introduction I Introduction Parts 8MB SGRAM Onboard Memory Savage3DTM Graphics Engine with Heatsink VIP A Connector VIP B Connector NOTE Components enclosed in dotted boxes are available only in the AGP V3100TV models Video In Controller Video In TV Out VGA Output ...

Page 9: ...omposite RCA Output S Video Plug RCA Plug RCA Plug S Video or Tuner Box Plug Camcorder Video Cassette Recorder Television Other Video Displaying or Recording Devices 15 Pin VGA Plug Camcorder Video Cassette Player Laser Disc Player Other Video Devices With ASUS Tuner Box TV FM Tuner Computer Monitor Video Projector Other VGA Compatible devices CATV ASUS TV Box AGP V3100 Series Connection Examples ...

Page 10: ...Systems with Existing VGA Card 1 Change your display driver to Standard VGA 2 Shut down your computer and unplug all electrical cords 3 Replace the existingVGAcard with theASUSAGP V3100 series graphics card 4 Restart your computer 5 Install the ASUS AGP V3100 series display driver II Hardware Installation II Installation Procedures NOTE Your graphics card can only be installed in motherboards with...

Page 11: ...NE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Version HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion VersionNumber OSR2 0 with USB has Version Windows 95 and VersionNumber 4 03 1212 or 4 03 1214 Windows 98 Only Windows 98 supports full Direct3D and AGP features If you are not using Windows 98 and you want to fully take advantage the Direct3D and AGP features you must upgrade your curr...

Page 12: ... and follow the steps on the next page When installing Windows 95 OSR2 0 the Update Device Driver Wizard window will appear This wizard will complete the installation of the Standard PCI GraphicsAdapter VGA ClickNext to let Windows search for an updated driver Install All Drivers and Utilities Insert the installation CD disc The ASUS AGP V3100 Install Shell appears If it does not appear run D setu...

Page 13: ...our motherboard that the program detected Click OK to install the driver for your chipset Installation dialogs are slightly different for each chipset Follow the onscreen instructions to com plete the VGARTD installation The following steps are for Intel chipsets In you opted to select other drivers you will be presented with a drop down list of other drivers In the driver selection list click the...

Page 14: ...e root direc tory of the CD Click Install DirectX 6 Click Yes to install Microsoft DirectX 6 Install DirectX 6 Install Microsoft DirectX 6 with this feature DirectX allows 3D hardware accelera tion support in Windows 95 For Software MPEG support in Windows 95 you must first install the Microsoft DirectX 6 libraries then you may install the Video Player Click OK after installing DirectX 6 Click Yes...

Page 15: ...splay driver The welcome screen appears Click Next The features screen appears Click Next A notice will appear depending on whether you have installed Windows OSR2 0 or not If your system is not OSR2 0 or later you will be asked to upgrade Otherwise you will be asked to in stall VGARTD if you have not yet If your Windows is OSR2 0 the installation pro gram will start copying files to your hard dis...

Page 16: ...explanatory instructions to com plete the installation Using the Video Player Moving your cursor over the buttons will give the button name as shown NOTE It is strongly recommended that you run PowerPlayer at low resolutions 1024x768 or lower and refresh rates below 85Hz Higher resolutions or refresh rates result in poor quality and may cause problems III Windows 95 98 Eject Power Minimize Setting...

Page 17: ... differentTVoptions such as TV Type and TV Output Signal For ad vanced features click Advance Setting Advance Setting This allows you to see Information about your card AdjustTV Position and make TV Enhancements Adjust TV Position This allows you to adjust the horizontal vertical screen size and screen display position of your TV TV Enhancements This allows you to adjust TV output sig nals such as...

Page 18: ...reshRateallowsyoutochangetherefreshrates of your monitor To Adjust the Refresh Rates 1 Click the Change Configuration button The refresh rate dialog box appears 2 Select the desired refresh rate in the combo boxes shown that is 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 and 1280x1024 1600x1200 3 Click OK when finished ...

Page 19: ...CD disc or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup exe in the root direc tory of the CD Select Remove Display Driver and follow the directions Using Control Panel 1 Click Start and then point to Settings 2 Click Control Panel 3 Double clicktheAdd RemoveProgramsicon 4 Click the Install Uninstall tab 5 Select ASUS VGA driver from the list 6 Click Add...

Page 20: ...of the CD disc 2 Click the Settings tab 3 IntherefreshedDisplayPropertiesdialogbox click Chnage Display Type IV Windows NT Install Driver 4 In Adapter Type under Display Type click Change 5 In Change Display click Have Disk and then select the path to the NT 4 0 driver that is D NT40 6 In the newly created Select Device item AGP V3100 Vx xx xx Enhanced Driver appears Click OK to start copying file...

Page 21: ...r need the AGP V3100 display drivers you can use the following procedures to completely uninstall the drivers from Windows NT 4 0 to save disk space Insert the installation CD disc or double click on your CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup exe in the root di rectory of the CD Select Remove NT 4 0 Display Driver and follow the directions ...

Page 22: ...s yes 100Hz 63 5KHz yes yes yes 1024 x 768 60Hz 48 1KHz yes yes yes 70Hz 60 0KHz yes yes yes 75Hz 60 0KHz yes yes yes 85Hz 68 6KHz yes yes yes 1152 x 864 60Hz 54 3KHz yes yes yes 70Hz 64 0KHz yes yes yes 75Hz 69 0KHz yes yes yes 85Hz 77 7KHz yes yes yes 1280 x 1024 60Hz 64 0KHz yes yes yes 75Hz 80 0KHz yes yes 85Hz 91 1KHz yes yes 1600 x 1200 60Hz 72 5KHz yes yes 75Hz 94 0KHz yes yes 85Hz 106 5KHz...

Page 23: ...24bits 0bit 8bits 16bits 24bits 640x480 16bits yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes 640x480 32bits yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes 800x600 16bits yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes 800x600 32bits yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes 1024x768 16bits yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes 1024x768 32bits yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes 1280x1024 16bits yes yes yes yes yes yes yes 1280x1024 32bits yes yes yes 1600x1200 ...

Page 24: ...r more conflicting adapters 6 Disable all previous adapters by selecting them and clicking Remove 7 Close Device Manager and restart Windows 95 8 Your display driver should work correctly this time My monitor is not capable of high resolution or re fresh rate It depends on the display characteristics of your moni tor Consult your monitor documentation for the proper configuration VI Troubleshoot D...

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