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Page 2: ...ptions contained herein imply the granting of license to make use or sell equipment constructed in accordance with this description The PCI accelerators have been designed to support the PCI local bus...

Page 3: ...ng the Card 14 Reassembling Your Computer 15 Connecting the Monitor Cable 16 After Installing the Card 17 INSTALLING SOFTWARE 19 General Information 19 Software Installation for Windows NT4 0 20 4 FIR...

Page 4: ...MMON PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS 37 A TECHNICAL DETAILS 40 FEATURES AND PERFORMANCE 40 Hardware 40 Software 41 Hardware Performance 42 PIN ASSIGNMENTS 42 VIDEO MODES 43 BLOCK DIAGRAM 44 B GLOSSARY 45 C TRA...

Page 5: ...ntroller a 2D 3D Raster Engine with Geometry Pipeline Setup processor and a 250 MHz RAMDAC in a single package Diamond Fire GL1 delivers a balance of 2D power and superior 3D acceleration providing po...

Page 6: ...ngine and frame buffer 64 KByte BIOS FlashROM reprogrammable by software 32 bit RGB True color 2D and 3D acceleration Accelerated double buffered 32 bit TrueColor up to 1920 x 1200 at 75 Hz refresh ra...

Page 7: ...raud shading Bilinear and trilinear MIP mapping Alpha blending Fogging and depth cueing Anti aliased lines and sorted polygons Scissoring and stippling Overlay and stencil buffers Z buffering For more...

Page 8: ...P bus interface 1 IBM 256 bit Graphics Rasterizer with fan 4 Flash BIOS PROM 2 SG RAM chips also on solder side 5 Oscillator 3 DB 15 monitor connector 6 3 3V 5V voltage supply support with heatsink Fi...

Page 9: ...m To feature from the View menu and increase the magnification to about 133 For printing the User s Guide a print resolution of 600 dpi is recommended MANUAL CONVENTIONS Your Fire GL1 User s Guide is...

Page 10: ...hics Accelerators The drivers are designed exclusively to support Fire GL1 Graphics Accelerators with the Windows NT 4 0 operating system updated with Service Pack 4 or higher The drivers DO NOT SUPPO...

Page 11: ...for specific requirements SuperCD CD ROM for Fire GL1 Preparing your Computer Before removing your old card If you are installing your Fire GL1 in place of a card from another manufacturer we recomme...

Page 12: ...ery application may permit the configuration of its video mode from the operating system level Installing the Standard VGA Driver To avoid possible driver conflicts between your old and new graphics c...

Page 13: ...exposed circuitry If possible ground your body A metal power supply in your computer is generally considered the best place to ground yourself Make as few movements as possible to avoid building up s...

Page 14: ...position it directly above the AGP or PCI slot AGP and PCI cards are designed to fit one way only Be sure your card is properly aligned 4 Insert your Fire GL1 card firmly into the AGP or PCI slot Tak...

Page 15: ...Fire GL1 card b Card edge connector c Expansion slot Reassembling Your Computer Secure ribbon cables and gently push them down and out of the way before you replace the system cover Replace the comput...

Page 16: ...Securely attach your monitor s data cable to the 15 pin VGA output connector 3 on the card Attach the cable to the monitor according to the monitor s instructions Fire GL1 with AGP bus interface 3 Fi...

Page 17: ...tallation instructions were properly followed Check that the system BIOS has assigned a system interrupt to the AGP or PCI slot where the card is installed Check the system configuration utility of yo...

Page 18: ...erformance resolutions refresh rates and color depths It is optimally configured to be combined with high resolution MultiSync or multi frequency monitors You can also connect the Fire GL1 to other VG...

Page 19: ...or remove the Fire GL1 drivers you need administrator rights or you must be logged on as a user with administrator rights under Windows NT General Information Before installing the Diamond Fire GL1 v...

Page 20: ...lick the Start button in the task bar click Run and then select START EXE from the root directory of the SuperCD Select Readme from the SuperCD Fire GL1 start menu to display a readme file Refer to th...

Page 21: ...y the components you want to install 4 Click Next to continue the installation 5 When the DIAMOND Install dialog displays the components to be installed click on Next Depending on which components you...

Page 22: ...nd Information Use the Configuration dialog to customize application profiles for individual application settings Refer to page 33 for more information The Information dialog displays some card specif...

Page 23: ...able only if additional graphics accelerators are installed To access the Diplay Properties menu 1 Start Windows NT 4 0 2 After Windows NT 4 0 has finished booting click Start Settings Control Panel 3...

Page 24: ...pter Notes 1 The resolution and color depth setting applies to all monitors in a multi monitor configuration Check the documentation of your monitors and make sure that all monitors support your resol...

Page 25: ...e Display Properties window For each Fire GL1 Graphics Accelerator in your system you can customize the settings of the connected monitor For more information on setting up the monitor s refer to the...

Page 26: ...ht menu pane displays resolutions and for each resolution the maximum refresh rate as supported by the selected monitor If the current video mode specified in the Settings dialog is not supported by t...

Page 27: ...ton to enable your monitor settings 5 Repeat steps 2 through 5 for each monitor you want to set up Adjusting the Monitor Display 1 Select the Adjustment dialog in the Display Properties window For eac...

Page 28: ...s on your monitor if available to adjust your display size or position instead of the software controls in Adjustment Monitor Tuning Check the documentation of your monitor for information on your mon...

Page 29: ...modification that causes your screen to go blank or to be unreadable the keyboard shortcut for Undo is Alt U Default Click this button to set the Monitor Tuning to the manufacturer s default settings...

Page 30: ...uction of the image s brightness The effect of display gamma is to darken the midtones relative to the dark and light regions The gamma correction adjustment affects the entire screen display The poss...

Page 31: ...Utilities 31 Setting Multiple Monitor Configuration 1 Select the MultiScreen dialog in the Display Properties window Refer to the context online help for more information on setting up your MultiScre...

Page 32: ...3 Select the Window Placement settings Fullscreen Select if you want a full screen window displayed On all monitors or only on the Current monitor that is the monitor where your mouse cursor currentl...

Page 33: ...Fire GL1 Software Utilities 33 MODIFYING APPLICATION PROFILES Using the Configuration dialog in the Display Properties menu you can individually configure each application s settings...

Page 34: ...may modify the configuration settings 1 Click Start Settings Control Panel Display or click with the right mouse button on the Windows desktop and select Properties 2 In the Display Properties menu se...

Page 35: ...it double buffered Use 4 bit double buffered overlay planes in the depth buffers The driver exports pixelformats with 4 bit double buffered overlay planes for OpenGL applications 8 Bit single buffered...

Page 36: ...lick Start Programs Diamond then click DIAMOND Install Uninstall The Diamond Install dialog appears Click Next 2 Click Remove the product Note Make sure that only those components are selected that yo...

Page 37: ...n how to solve your problem FAQs Frequently Asked Questions and their answers may be found at the web sites of ATI Inc Go to www ati com and select Support No image appears on monitor when computer sy...

Page 38: ...there is no picture Try adjusting the brightness sharpness contrast and color balance controls of your monitor Try adjusting the centering and positioning controls of your monitor to position the pict...

Page 39: ...card is installed However there may be problems if your graphics card does not receive an interrupt or a system interrupt is used for more than one device In case of problems try the following Check t...

Page 40: ...ns AGP ATX NLX bus AGP2x version 2 0 compliant with sideband addressing PCI bus 32 bit 33 66 MHz version 2 1 compliant Graphics Engine IBM 256 bit Graphics Rasterizer with integrated VGA Controller 2D...

Page 41: ...ons up to 1920 x 1200 double buffered 24 bit Z buffer 4 bit double buffer 8 bit single buffer overlay Video engine supports YUV conversion point and bilinear scaling Software OpenGL 1 2 ICD Supports W...

Page 42: ...te of 116 on single processor systems and 165 frames per second on dual processor workstations Viewperf ProCDRS rate of 19 190 CDRS on Single Intel Pentium III with Streaming SIMD Extensions 351 HE 99...

Page 43: ...9 53 7 60 72 75 85 1024 x 768 24 8 48 4 56 5 60 0 68 7 60 70 75 85 1280 x 1024 24 8 64 0 80 0 91 1 60 75 85 1600 x 1200 24 8 75 0 81 3 87 5 93 8 106 3 60 65 70 75 85 1792 x 1344 24 8 83 0 60 1920 x 12...

Page 44: ...ngine Flash ROM 64KB Frame buffer 32 MBytes SGRAM Utility Bus Interface Frame Buffer Interface System Bus Interface RGB Out Sync Out DDC2B Ctl DMA BLT Unit Raster Engine Palette DAC and I O Display Ti...

Page 45: ...AGP 1X information transfer is twice as fast as PCI transfer rates Alpha blending Creating transparent materials with the help of additional information for each pixel Analog Continuously varying elec...

Page 46: ...o continue to process them later under Windows BNC connector Standardized connector with a bayonet socket used for connecting a graphics board to a monitor with separate R ed G reen and B lue inputs B...

Page 47: ...A converter DAC Converts digital input signal to analog output signal e g image data in the display memory of the graphics board is converted to video signal for the monitor to display DDC Display Da...

Page 48: ...ormance of the underlying hardware Includes the DirectDraw Direct3D DirectSound DirectInput and DirectPlay APIs Dither Process of representing a color by mixing dots of closely related colors DMA Dire...

Page 49: ...at cable Filter Special effect applied to a video clip or image to alter its appearance Filters can also correct problems involving color balance or brightness and contrast Fixed Frequency Monitor Ana...

Page 50: ...photograph This normally means that 254 different grayscales plus black and white 256 are used H Sync length of the horizontal synchronization pulse for a monitor given in microseconds Hardware Triang...

Page 51: ...that are not actually in the color table You can transform images into indexed color images in order to load them into programs such as Windows Paintbrush or just to see them on monitors that can only...

Page 52: ...Type of monitor that supports a wide range of horizontal scanning frequencies and vertical refresh frequencies This type of monitor accepts inputs from many different video display adapters OpenGL 3D...

Page 53: ...in photos printed in newspapers Also called pel Pixel clock Also called pixel frequency Number of pixels drawn per second in MHz million pixels per second The values are either fixed or freely progra...

Page 54: ...s The RGB8 color images are automatically transformed into indexed 16 color images whereby the 8 colors are retained but space for further 8 colors is created It is not possible to transform an existi...

Page 55: ...e Gouraud shading The color shades on a triangle are calculated by interpolating the vertex colors resulting in a smooth appearance of the surface Phong shading The color shades on a triangle are calc...

Page 56: ...d Association consortium for the standardization of computer graphics VGA IBM Video Graphics Adapter with a standard resolution of 640 x 480 with 16 colors VRAM Video Random Access Memory memory chip...

Page 57: ...raw and Direct3D are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Pentium is a registered trademark and AGP Accelerated Graphics Port...

Page 58: ...interference and 2 This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics...

Page 59: ...B EN 55022 CISPR 22 Limites et m thodes de mesure des caract ristiques d interf rences radiophoniques Mat riel des technologies de l information EN 50082 1 Norme sur l immunit g n rique pour produits...

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