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Please check out the following items to make sure that you get the complete product:
VGA card
CDs
- Drivers and documentation on CD
- Applications on CD
Consult your dealer immediately if anything is missing or damaged.
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http://www.msi.com.tw
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February 2006
MSI Live VGA BIOS Update
This service enables you to update the latest VGA BIOS for your VGA card.
1. To update your VGA BIOS, click Live VGA BIOS item on the left column of the main page.
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2. If your VGA card does not support the Live VGA BIOS function, you will receive a warning
message on the screen.
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3. If your VGA card do support the Live VGA BIOS function, please pay attention to the message
shown on the screen telling you that in what circumstance flashing BIOS may fail to reboot.
4. Click Yes if you would like to try it at your own risk or No to return to the main page with
everything unchanged.
5. If you click Yes to continue, it will check the information and BIOS version of your VGA card,
and list them in a table.
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6. Click the graph button at the bottom to connect the MSI Live Update 3 Server.
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7. The MSI Live VGA BIOS will automatically connect the Internet and search the supported
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BIOS in the database of MSI .
8. If it has found one (or several) supported BIOS for your VGA card, click the InstallShield
Wizard button on the right side of the table to have the new BIOS downloaded and updated
automatically.
9. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the updating procedure.
* All trademarks used in this manual are the sole property of their respective owners.
VGA is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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FEATURES
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* Support CorssFire --the CorssFire aspect requires the following components to be
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available in order to appear as an option within Catalyst
Control Center:
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- A CorssFire
Ready motherboard with two PCI Express X16 slots
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- A CorssFire Edition Series graphics card.
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- The Radeon X1900 CorssFire Edition can be pared with any standard Radeon
X1900-based graphics card, or
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- An interconnect cable, supplied with the CorssFire Edition graphics card, connecting
the two cards to a single monitor.
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* DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shaders
- Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
- Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
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DirectX Extended 9.0 Pixel Shaders
Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
32 temporary and constant registers
Facing register for two-sided lighting
128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
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To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following requirements:
Intel Pentium III
(and above), AMD K7 (and above), or compatible with PCI Express slot
128MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Interactive Program guide requires Internet connection for listing updates
Remote control receiver requires available USB port
500MHZ minimum processor speed for MPEG-2 video capture
Operation System Support: Windows XP
Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability.
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Macrovision Corporation Product Notice
This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by method claims of
certain U.S. patents and other intellectual property rights owned by Macrovision Corporation and
other right owners. Use of this copyright protection technology must be authorized by Macrovision
Corporation, and is intended for home and other limited viewing uses only unless otherwise
authorized by Macrovision Corporation. Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited.
For reference only
Note: The VGA card shown here
may vary from the actual card.
For further information, please
visit MSI website at
www.msi.com.tw
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MS-V803
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512MB DDR3 memory or
256MB DDR3 memory
Fan Connector
RX1900 CrossFire series
ATI Radeon X1900 series inside!!!
PCI Express Interface
ATI Radeon X1900 series
PCI Express interface
DVI-I port
VHDCI Port
Power Connector
