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Important System Settings for Operating the TV Card
Observe the following items to ensure that the TV card provides optimal performance:
·
The color depth for your graphics board should be set to a minimum of 16 bits or 65536
colors so that the TV image can be displayed in true-to-life color. You can change the color
depth setting for your graphics board under
Control Panel >
Display
. For questions
regarding the configuration of the color depth, refer to the manual provided with your
graphics board.
·
The TV card blends the TV/Video data directly into the memory of your graphics board
through the PCI bus. This requires direct access to the hardware of the graphics board.
Because direct access under Windows is only possible through a DirectX driver, your
graphics board must be equipped with a DirectX driver that supports Video Overlay. Video
Overlay refers to the blending of the TV data into the graphics board memory. If you are not
sure whether your graphics board driver supports DirectX, acquire the newest drivers for
your graphics board and then install the newest version of DirectX. The DirectX 6.0 drivers
are provided in the
\DirectX
directory of the TerraTValue CD!
·
If you own a mainboard with VIA or SIS chipset, you should check certain settings in your
system BIOS. If you do not know what chipset is installed on your mainboard, refer to your
mainboard manual or try to locate large, obvious chips on your mainboard and compare
their labels with the following list.
Important:
You might find that the chipset on your mainboard matches one of the chipsets listed in the
following but that the corresponding setting is not available in your BIOS. In this case, try to
activate the corresponding options by acquiring a BIOS update. Another way of accessing the
corresponding settings is by using the TweakBIOS utility, which you can download from the
Internet. This tool allows you to enable hidden BIOS settings.
Chipset
Note:
VIA VT82c598 MVP
Set the
CPU to PCI Write Buffer
option to
disabled
. You can find
this setting in your BIOS under the
PnP/PCI-Configuration
item.
VIA VT82c598 MVP3
Set the
CPU to PCI Write Buffer
option to
disabled
. You can find
this setting in your BIOS under the
PnP/PCI-Configuration
item.
SIS 5582
Set the
Peer Concurrency
option to
disabled
. You can find this
setting in your BIOS under the
Chipset Features Setup
item.
