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Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 4

1.1. PREFACE ...............................................................................................4
1.2. KEY FEATURES .....................................................................................4

2. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ............................................................ 5

2.1. UNPACKING ...........................................................................................5
2.2. BOARD LAYOUT .....................................................................................6
2.3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...................................................................7

3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ............................................................ 9

3.1. WIN

®

XP DRIVER AND UTILITIES INSTALLATION ...................................9

3.1.1. Operating system requirement ..............................................................................9
3.1.2. DirectX Installation ................................................................................................10
3.1.3. Driver Installation .................................................................................................12
3.1.4. Utilities on driver CD ...........................................................................................15
3.1.5. Taskbar Icon .........................................................................................................18
3.1.6. Display Properties pages ....................................................................................22

3.2. WIN

®

98/98SE / WIN

®

2000 / WIN

®

ME DRIVER INSTALLATION ............. 31

3.3. BIOS FLASH UTILITY ........................................................................... 31

4. Troubleshooting Tips..................................................................... 32

5. Appendix ...................................................................................... 33

5.1. How to reflash the BIOS .......................................................................... 33
5.2. Resolutions and Color Depth Table (In Windows

®

XP) .............................. 34

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Summary of Contents for GV-R80P256D

Page 1: ...GV R80P256D GV R80P256V Radeon X800 Pro Graphics Accelerator Rev 102 12MD R80P256V 102 USER S MANUAL Upgrade your Life...

Page 2: ...e the propertyof their respective owners Notice Due torapid change in technology some of the specifications might be out ofdate before publicationofthisbooklet The author assumesno responsibility for...

Page 3: ...DRIVER AND UTILITIES INSTALLATION 9 3 1 1 Operatingsystem requirement 9 3 1 2 DirectXInstallation 10 3 1 3 DriverInstallation 12 3 1 4 Utilities on driver CD 15 3 1 5 TaskbarIcon 18 3 1 6 DisplayPrope...

Page 4: ...licatedand realistic visual effectsthan ever before GV R80P256D GV R80P256Vsupports the newAGP8Xstandard which allows largevolumes of texture andvertexdatato betransferred fasterfrom system memory to...

Page 5: ...objectorto a metalobject such as the power supplycase 3 Place components on a grounded antistatic pad or on the bag that came with the componentswheneverthe components are separatedfromthe system Thec...

Page 6: ...DR III TV out VGA Monitor C onnector 15pin DVI I Connector AV Output NTSC PAL TV Projector S VideoOutput Analog LCD Monitor Analog M onitor OR VGA Output Analog LC D M onitor Digital LCD Monitor DVI O...

Page 7: ...erator card 1 Power off thecomputer and monitor then disconnectthe display cablefrom theback ofyourcomputer 2 Remove the computercover Ifnecessary consultyour computer smanual forhelp in removingtheco...

Page 8: ...he display cable into yourcard then turn on the computer and monitor If your graphics cardcame with a DVI connector you can connect a flat panel display to the appropriateconnector as shownbelow Youar...

Page 9: ...s to setup yourgraphics carddriver Please follow thesubsection 3 1 3 Driver installation to install the driverfor yourgraphics accelerator 3 1 WIN XP DRIVER AND UTILITIES INSTALLATION 3 1 1 Operating...

Page 10: ...re acceleration support for Windows 98 98SE Windows 2000 Windows MEorWindows XPtoachieve better 3Dperformence M Note For software MPEGsupportin Windows 98 98SE Windows 2000 Windows MEor Windows XP you...

Page 11: ...Software Installation 11 English ThentheDirectX9 installationis completed 4 Click Finish item...

Page 12: ...nd pop out a New Hardware Found message Please select Do not install a driver and press OK Step 2 Update Device Driver Wizard Standard PCI Graphics Adapter VGA Step 3 Update Device Driver Wizard Finis...

Page 13: ...V R80P256D GV R80P256Vdriver CD disk into your CD ROM and then you can see the AUTORUN window If it does not show up please run D setup exe 3 Click No icon Step 5 Driver Setup Pictures below are shown...

Page 14: ...GV R80P256D V Graphics Accelerator 14 English 3 Click Yes 4 Click Express or Custom icon 5 Click Finish to restartcomputer...

Page 15: ...sh l InstallV Tuner2 3 1 4 Utilities on driver CD The utilities includeDisplay Driver andV Tuner2 utilities Please follow the steps 2 Click Next 3 Enteryour name and company 4 Click Finish to restartc...

Page 16: ...GV R80P256D V Graphics Accelerator 16 English lHydravisionInstall 2 Click Next 3 Click Yes 4 Click Next 1 Click Hydravision Install item...

Page 17: ...Software Installation 17 English 5 Click Next 6 Click Finish to restartcomputer...

Page 18: ...nsthe GBT control panel showing a menu composed of shortcuteof thegraphicscard s enhancedandotherfunctions You mayclick the Display Properties item andthen clickSettings Click Advanced after clickngSe...

Page 19: ...19 English V Tuner 2 V Tuner 2 monitors the working frequency of the graphic engine and video memory Core Clock and Memory Clock Displays core clock status Displays memory clock status Select choice o...

Page 20: ...elerator 20 English VGA Information VGA Info lists the relevant informationabout yourcard Color Adjust Color Adjust allows you to make color adjustments such as brightness contrast and gamma values fo...

Page 21: ...oftware GV R80P256D GV R80P256V with only one display output can still take advantage of the many features of HYDRAVISION HYDRAVISION installation enables the Desktop Manager and createsa Windows prog...

Page 22: ...dis ables the ATItaskbar icon However this feature mustbe enabledforATIhotkeysupport Click Advanced into details settings n ShowATI icon on taskbar adds orremoves theATIicon from the taskbar n Disabl...

Page 23: ...ncedusers only n Custombutton Opensthe Custom Properties dialog Using custom settings isrecommended foradvanced users only Formore information referto the Custom Properties Dialog section n CurrentSet...

Page 24: ...as aresultofthe largestnumberoftexturesamplespossible n TexturePreference slider Selecting thisdecideswhetheryourapplicationshould usehigh qualityorhighperformancetextures Moving the slider to the ri...

Page 25: ...ere are afewapplications thatcanonlysupporta limited number oftexture formats By selectingDisabled thedriver willnotsupportDXTtexture formats thus reducingthenumberoftextureformats supported Alternate...

Page 26: ...uffer memory available Ifthere is insufficientmemoryavailable to supportthis feature itwill be automatically disabled Itis recommended thatthis featureremain disabled l Defaults button Resets to thedi...

Page 27: ...hehigherthe brightnessand contrastofyourdisplay n All Colors checkbox adjust the RGB individually or adjustallthree colors atthe same time n Gamma Brightness Contrastadjustthe colorbymov ing the slide...

Page 28: ...connectyour GV R80P256D GV R80P256V graphics card to a TV or VCR use an S Video cable However mostTVs and VCRs have a Composite video input in which case you can use thesupplied S Video to Compositev...

Page 29: ...stments l Brightness allows you to adjustthe brightness ofthe videoimage l Contrastallows youto adjustthe contrastin the video image l Saturation allows you to adjust the vividness of the color Slidin...

Page 30: ...tomatically performing a varietyofbusteststhatdetermineyouroptimalgraphicsacceleratorsettings Changingthese settingsmightresultinsysteminstability Rotation Use the Rotation tab to rotate the imageon y...

Page 31: ...at shipped withyour graphicscard To installthe graphicscard driver for Win 98 98SE Win 2000 Win ME please insertthe Installation CD Then the AUTORUN window will show up Click Install Display Driver it...

Page 32: ...ed or to become the secondarydisplay n Makesure you selected theappropriate display deviceand graphics card whenyou installed thegraphicsdriver n If youhave problemsduring bootup start yourcomputer in...

Page 33: ...5 Appendix 5 1 How to reflash the BIOS We use GV AR64SH VGA card and Atiflash BIOS flash utility as example How to reflash the BIOSfor your graphics card 1 Extract the Zip file to the drive C orA 2 Re...

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Page 35: ...aced P interlaced 60 P P P 70 P P P 75 P P P 85 P P P 100 P P P 1280 x 768 56 P P P 60 P P P 75 P P P 85 P P P 1280 x 960 60 P P P 70 P P P 72 P P P 75 P P P 85 P P P 100 P P P 120 P P P 160 P P P 128...

Page 36: ...ode High mode True mode 1792 x 1344 60 P P P 75 P P P 85 P P P 1800 x 1440 60 P P P 70 P P P 1856 x 1392 60 P P P 72 P P P 75 P P P 1920 x 1080 60 P P P 75 P P P 1920 x 1200 60 P P P 75 P P P 85 P P P...

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