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Introduction

WINNER 2000/Office

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System Requirements

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Computer:

 ELSA graphics boards are suited for operation in computers with Intel

Pentium or Pentium-compatible CPUs.

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Bus:

 Your computer's bus system needs PCI-2.0 compliant bus slots (with bus mas-

ter capability) or an AGP bus.

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Monitor:

 ELSA graphics boards work with the standard IBM VGA compatible hori-

zontal scan frequency of 31.5 kHz when booting and in DOS operation. In addition,
the monitor must be capable of displaying the graphics mode you select.

Summary of Contents for WINNER 2000/Office

Page 1: ...ELSA WINNER 2000 Office TM User Manual...

Page 2: ...certified The accredited T V CERT certification authority has confirmed ELSA con formity to the worldwide ISO 9001 standard in certificate number 09 100 5069 issued on 16 May 1995 Trademarks Windows W...

Page 3: ...ed to get the best out of your ELSA graphics board For instance which resolution is best for which monitor or how is the board upgraded The accompanying ELSA utility programs are described and you wil...

Page 4: ...of the WINNER 2000 Office hardware and software drivers is described in full in the Quick Start guide which accompanies this manual You should refer to that document before attempting to install your...

Page 5: ...g the Drivers 7 Software Installation from the CD 7 The Right Settings 7 What are Your Options 8 What Makes Sense 8 Changing the Resolution 9 Windows 95 9 Windows NT 4 0 11 OS 2 Warp 4 12 Video What s...

Page 6: ...epresentation 29 The 3D Pipeline 29 3D Interfaces 31 What APIs Are Available 32 Direct 3D 32 Heidi 33 OpenGL 33 Color Palettes TrueColor and Gray Scales 34 VGA 34 DirectColor 34 VESA DDC Display Data...

Page 7: ...00 Office IX General Questions and Answers 41 Advice and Help 42 Who to Contact 42 The ELSA LocalWeb 43 Driver Updates 44 Repair 44 DOC Declaration of Conformity 45 Warranty Conditions 46 Glossary 49...

Page 8: ...WINNER 2000 Office X...

Page 9: ...es out many tasks including the identification of the WINNER 2000 Office to the computer The Flash BIOS equipment enables quick and easy upgrades Display memory 4 MB SGRAM with socket for expansion to...

Page 10: ...nd Com puServe forum Six year warranty This board complies with the CE and FCC rules and has the following FCC IDs With video equipment PCI bus KJGP2VIVOUP 4 MB KJGP2VIVO 8 MB AGP bus KJGP2VIVOUPAGP 4...

Page 11: ...compatible CPUs Bus Your computer s bus system needs PCI 2 0 compliant bus slots with bus mas ter capability or an AGP bus Monitor ELSA graphics boards work with the standard IBM VGA compatible hori...

Page 12: ...ver there is no guarantee that interfer ence will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause interference to radio or television reception this can be determined by turning th...

Page 13: ...the slot into which you intend to install your board complies with the PCI specifications During the warranty period repairs should only be made by ELSA otherwise your warranty and your entitlement to...

Page 14: ...l pixels Please consult our Support service in the unlikely event that you still experi ence video errors Installing the Memory Module in the WINNER 2000 Office The socket for the 4MB memory module on...

Page 15: ...ould start automatically after inserting your WINNERware CD but if not then you can run the CDSETUP EXE from the CD s root directory CD Setup recognizes the operating system and the ELSA graphics boar...

Page 16: ...s tem On the one hand there are the ergonomic guidelines although nowadays these are met by most systems and on the other hand there are limitations inherent to your sys tem e g your monitor The quest...

Page 17: ...gs which you may use to set up your graphics sys tem are automatically added to the Control Panel when you install the graphics drivers The ELSA settings function brings a significant benefit Once you...

Page 18: ...me and select your monitor model You have two options if your monitor is not listed Select _Standard monitor from the top of the list as your monitor manufacturer Then select the resolution required a...

Page 19: ...ies for the image frequencies carefully as otherwise you could damage your monitor Look these up in your monitor manual or consult the monitor manufacturer Youcan enter themonitor manufacturer and mod...

Page 20: ...ck on the icon to open an index card with a number of different tabs Click on the Settings tab You can select the possible settings for Color Depth Font Size Resolution and Refresh Rate from this dial...

Page 21: ...nstalled you will find a new folder on your desktop containing the ELSA utilities described here Start the program ELSA Resolution Manager from this menu The ELSA Resolution Manager enables the easy c...

Page 22: ...After Installing the Drivers WINNER 2000 Office 14...

Page 23: ...nd how do you make a certain appli cation window appear on a video projector Signal Interchange An Overview Below we will show you just how open the WINNER 2000 Office is to all sides The illustration...

Page 24: ...th a coaxial antenna cable makes it immediately clear that the signals are handled in fundamentally different ways The WINNER 2000 Office is equipped with its own translator a chip which converts VGA...

Page 25: ...o Outputs Apart from the VGA socket for connecting your computer s monitor the WINNER 2000 Office features an additional video output socket You can connect video players or recorders equipped with an...

Page 26: ...om right of your screen A click on this icon opens up a dialog box from which you can call up the commands for the video settings The video input for the WINNER 2000 Office can be defined and adjusted...

Page 27: ...that supports this standards should work Once you have connected the video source started your computer and loaded Windows click on the ELSA symbol in the task bar in the bottom right of the screen an...

Page 28: ...ttings by clicking OK It is worth considering the data format for video recordings The ELSA Codec for video data compression features a highly effective reduction procedure which saves disk space and...

Page 29: ...Onto the Computer Monitor The WINNERware CD has programs you can use to display the video image One partic ularly exciting application when the video camera is connected is to use Microsoft Net Meeti...

Page 30: ...seen on your TV By now you should see your monitor display on the video device In the Source area field you will see several options for the deciding which part of the image should be dis played Under...

Page 31: ...signals Make sure you check the settings for Input Connector and Camera under Default Adjustments Use the F1 key or the Help button to open the online help which will give you further information abo...

Page 32: ...Video What s In What s Out WINNER 2000 Office 22...

Page 33: ...s a short summary With NetMeeting you can for instance Call up anyone over a network or through a modem Carry on conversations over the Internet See the people you call up using a modem or network Wor...

Page 34: ...k vid eos without having to load them into MainActor MainView can also be called from other programs MainActor has a Format The table below lists all the formats for the loading and saving modules of...

Page 35: ...alues under Act Stretch are the actual dimensions of the current video window ELSA DESKman This program is used in dual screen mode PCI version only to set on which screen the message boxes maxi mized...

Page 36: ...Useful Stuff and More WINNER 2000 Office 26...

Page 37: ...ues analog signals in accordance with the requirements of Guideline RS 170 The synchronization information is sent separately If your monitor provides a switch for the input impedance you should selec...

Page 38: ...VMI Bus The VMI bus is a new interface standard defined by the VESA Video Electronic Standards Association This interface allows the following modules to be connected to the graph ics board MPEG DVD d...

Page 39: ...n the first step the object is broken down into a number of polygons or triangles The vertices of the triangles are described by coordinate points x y and z with the z value containing the depth infor...

Page 40: ...pixel comparison is made between the texture template and the surface to be filled This method leads to a very coarse representation especially when enlarged In linear mapping a new color value is int...

Page 41: ...nd mirror images Certain applications use ray tracing methods This is a very computer intensive and time consuming process in which each individual pixel and its reflection in 3D space is calculated T...

Page 42: ...re are a good dozen more or less commonly found 3D APIs However in recent years three formats have established themselves as the favorites Direct 3D OpenGL and HEIDI ELSA graphics boards support these...

Page 43: ...be manipulated and moved using simple API commands Translation takes place in real time without the need to know the technical structure of the object For further information see the Internet WWW site...

Page 44: ...dvantage Only 256 colors can be displayed simultaneously from a palette of 262 144 possible colors DirectColor The situation is different in the case of DirectColor TrueColor RealColor and HighColor I...

Page 45: ...del maximum horizontal fre quency timing definitions etc or receive commands from the graphics board There are various standards DDC1 DDC2B and DDC2AB DDC1 Only the monitor can send data unidirectiona...

Page 46: ...ted over a single cable This method is a great benefit for transmissions from a television transmitter But this method also has clear disadvantages regarding signal quality The nesting of luminescence...

Page 47: ...with RGB16 The compression of these files is achieved by reducing the color resolution The human eye is more sensitive to differences in brightness than to differences in color which means that the co...

Page 48: ...2000 Office 38 you can record videos at a higher frame rate you can record videos in higher resolutions the drop rate is lower and you can record longer video sequences on hard disk than is possible...

Page 49: ...requency mon itor The monitor must accept separate H and V sync signals However only the compli ant high resolution mode can be displayed It is not possible to display the standard IBM VGA graphics mo...

Page 50: ...t all applications can interact closely with the hardware of the graphics board This can be accomplished by running DXSETUP EXE which you can find under ELSAWARE DIRECTX5 DIRECTX on your WINNERware CD...

Page 51: ...nnector your video source device is connected to Then check in Video Capture Properties that the setting for Connector is for the correct input General Questions and Answers How many energy saving lev...

Page 52: ...n pro vide the following information Exact model name of your ELSA device Version of the used ELSA driver or file date and time of the driver file Operating system hardware environment and bus system...

Page 53: ...0 V 34 Protocol PPP oder MLPPP User name guest No password The ELSA forum in CompuServe GO ELSA By fax to the ELSA support faxline 49 241 606 6399 Or write to ELSA ELSA AG Computer Graphics Support So...

Page 54: ...ilable for download from our Inter net WWW site www elsa com or our LocalWeb and via direct FTP from ftp elsa com You will also find lots of information and answers to frequently asked questions FAQs...

Page 55: ...oard M od el N ame W I N N E R 2 0 0 0 Office A G P T h is d ev ice comp lies w ith P art 1 5 of th e F CC ru les Op eration is s u b j ect to th e follow ing tw o cond itions 1 th is d ev ice may not...

Page 56: ...ars Excepted from this warranty period are ELSA CRT co lor monitors and ELSA video conferencing systems with a warranty period of 36 months Also excepted are the ELSA TFT Monitors with a warranty peri...

Page 57: ...fund in full or in part Com pensation claims regardless of the legal basis are excluded This does not apply if e g injury to persons or damage to private property are specifically covered by the produ...

Page 58: ...Appendix WINNER 2000 Office 48...

Page 59: ...which allows the display of relief or raised structures Bus system A system of parallel data lines for the transfer of information between indi vidual system components especially to expansion boards...

Page 60: ...t in space is determined from the observer s point of view Gouraud shading Shading Graphics accelerator refers to a graphics accelerator board i e a board particularly suited for graphics intensive us...

Page 61: ...color of each point in space is determined The depth information is held in the Z buffer the color and size information is held in the frame buffer Resolution The number of pixels in horizon tal and v...

Page 62: ...urniture Even a video can be used as a tex ture map TrueColor Graphics mode with 16 7 million colors 24 or 32 bits per pixel In this mode the color information saved in the display memory is not trans...

Page 63: ...formity 45 Direct 3D 32 DirectColor 34 49 DirectDraw 32 DMA 27 Double buffer 49 DPMS 49 DRAM 50 Driver 44 E EDO RAM 50 ELSA World Wide 43 F FCC 4 50 Filtering 30 Flat shading 31 51 Flipping 31 50 Fram...

Page 64: ...35 51 Refresh rate 51 Rendering 30 51 Repair 44 Resolution 51 Retained mode 33 S Safety 5 Scan frequency 50 Shading 31 51 Shutter glasses 51 Single buffer 51 Stencil buffer 32 Support 42 Support Hotli...

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