R AGP-V6600 3D Graphics Card USER’S MANUAL Hardware & Video Drivers
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CONTENTS I. Introduction ..................................................................................... 7 Highlights ......................................................................................... 7 II. Hardware Installation .................................................................... 8 ASUS AGP-V6600 (Pure) Layout ................................................... 8 Installation Procedures ..................................................................... 9 New Systems ........
CONTENTS Display Properties .......................................................................... 23 V6600 ............................................................................................. 23 Additional GeForce 256 Properties .......................................... 24 Color Correction ....................................................................... 24 Active Color Channel ......................................................... 24 Custom color settings ...........................
FCC & DOC COMPLIANCE Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: • • This device may not cause harmful interference, and This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
I. Introduction I. Introduction Features Thank you for purchasing an ASUS AGP-V6600 Graphics and Video Accelerator. With this purchase, you join an elite squadron of graphics enthusiasts. Powered by the NVIDIA™ GeForce256™ graphics processing unit (GPU), the ASUS AGP-V6600 delivers not only cutting-edge graphics performance but also image fidelity regardless of the CPU (central processing unit) your computer system is using.
ASUS AGP-V6600 Series User’s Manual VGA Output VGA Monitor output (15pin) (standard) VGA BIOS FAN_PWR VIP Connector A TM Chip with Fan (Graphics Processing Unit) TM NVIDIA GeForce256 GPU 32MB Frame Buffer The VIP (Video Interface Port) Connector are used for third party add-on modules, such as video capture cards or television tuners. 32MB Frame Buffer ASUS AGP-V6600 Graphics Card This User’s Manual ASUS V6600 Series Drivers & Utilities Installation CD Disc Item Checklist Projector II.
II. Hardware Installation NOTE: This graphics card can only be installed in motherboards with an AGP slot. II. Installation Procedures WARNING! Computer boards and components contain very delicate Integrated Circuit (IC) chips. To protect the computer board and other components against damage from static electricity, you must follow some precautions. 1. Make sure that you unplug your power supply when adding or removing expansion cards or other system components.
III. Windows 95/98 Operating System Requirements NOTE: This graphics card requires a motherboard with an AGP slot. Windows 95 OSR2.0 with USB Support III. Windows 95/98 Requirements Windows 95 OSR2.0 supports AGP cards, but to take advantage of all the AGP features, you must use Windows 95 OSR2.0 and install the USB upgrade and then install the VGARTD driver for the corresponding chipset on your motherboard (see III. Windows 95/98 | Install GART Driver). To install Win95 OSR2.
III. Windows 95/98 Driver Setup You can use one of three methods to install the Windows 95/98 drivers for your ASUS AGP-V6600 series graphics card. NOTE: Method 2 and Method 3 will not install the appropriate AGP GART driver if your motherboard does not use the Intel AGPset. Installing the AGP GART driver will ensure that the AGPset’s AGP functions are available. Method 2 and Method 3 will not install also the DirectX runtime libraries.
III. Windows 95/98 Method 2: Display Property Page 1. Start Windows. 2. Switch display to Windows’ Standard Display Adapter (VGA) mode and then restart Windows. 3. Right-click the Windows desktop and click Properties. 4. Click the Settings tab and then click Advanced. The Standard Display Adapter (VGA) Properties dialog box appears. III. Windows 95/98 Driver Setup 5. Click Change on the Adapter tab. The Update Device Driver Wizard dialog box appears. Click Next, click Display a list of all the drivers...
III. Windows 95/98 Method 3: Plug and Play NOTE: Before proceeding with these steps, replace first your old VGA card with an ASUS AGP-V6600 series graphics card. 1. Start Windows. III. Windows 95/98 Driver Installation 2. When Windows detects your ASUS AGP-V6600 series graphics card, the New Hardware Found dialog box appears. 3. Click Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer. 4.
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III. Windows 95/98 Drivers Install Display Driver 1. Insert the CD installation disc into your CD-ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup.exe in the root directory of your CD-ROM drive. III. Windows 95/98 Install Driver Click Drivers. 2. The Drivers box appears. Click Install Display Driver to install all the drivers and utilities into your computer.
III. Windows 95/98 Install DirectX Microsoft DirectX allows 3D hardware acceleration support in Windows 95/98. For Software MPEG support in Windows 95/98, you must first install Microsoft DirectX, and then an MPEG-compliant video player. 1. Insert the CD installation disc into your CD-ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup.exe in the root directory of your CD-ROM drive. Click Drivers. III. Windows 95/98 Install DirectX 2.
III. Windows 95/98 Install GART Driver The AGP GART Driver is used to support AGP functionality for the chipset on your PC’s motherboard. It is recommended to install the GART driver if it is newer than the one you have installed in your system. The GART driver is only necessary for an AGP graphics card. NOTE: Installation dialogs are slightly different for each chipset. Follow the onscreen instructions to finish the GART driver installation.
III. Windows 95/98 4. The AGP VGARTD Driver Detection box appears with the chipset detected on your motherboard. Click OK to install the appropriate driver for your chipset. III. Windows 95/98 Install GART 5. If you selected No..., on the previous dialog box before clicking OK, you will be presented with a selection of other drivers. Make your driver selection and click Install. 6. When the Welcome dialog box appears, click Next to continue. 7. Once the driver installation is finished, click Finish.
III. Windows 95/98 Install ASUS TWAIN Driver NOTE: ASUS TWAIN Driver is not available with this version. Uninstall Display Driver If you want to update your display drivers or if you no longer need the AGP-V6600 display drivers, you can use one of the following procedures to completely uninstall the drivers from Windows 95/98 to save disk space. Using the Autorun Screen III. Windows 95/98 Uninstall Driver 1.
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III. Windows 95/98 Utilities Install ASUS Live Utility NOTE: ASUS Live Utility is available only for models with the VIDEO-IN connector. Install Acrobat Reader Acrobat Reader is necessary for reading the PDF copy of this manual. III. Windows 95/98 Install Reader 1. Insert the CD installation disc into your CD-ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup.exe in the root directory of your CD-ROM drive. Click Utilities. 2. The Utilities box appears.
III. Windows 95/98 4. When the Software Licese Agreement box appears, click Accept to signify your acceptance of the License Agreement. III. Windows 95/98 Install Reader 5. When the Choose Destination Location box prompts you for a destination folder, click Next to select the default location. Setup starts to copy the necessary files to your computer. 6.
III. Windows 95/98 Display Properties After installation of the display drivers, you are now ready to configure the display properties of your graphics card. III. Windows 95/98 Display Properties To open the properties page for your computer or change the display properties, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Display, click the Settings tab, and then click Advanced. Click here V6600 V6600 lists the relevant information about your card.
III. Windows 95/98 Additional GeForce 256 Properties Color Correction Color Correction allows you to make color adjustments, such as brightness, contrast, and gamma values for each or all of the RGB colors. This function is not available when the screen is in 256color (8bpp) mode. III. Windows 95/98 Color Correction Active Color Channel Active Color Channel shows how each (R, G, or B) or all channels are distributed when you move the Brightness, Contrast, or Gamma slider to make your adjustments.
III. Windows 95/98 Custom color settings Custom color settings lists schemes or settings that you can use to change the appearance of many screen elements simultaneously. You can use existing schemes, or create and save your own scheme by saving your current settings, or delete unwanted schemes. You may want to save a scheme that you created for some application. III.
III. Windows 95/98 Enable fog table emulation Some old games do not correctly query the D3D hardware capabilities and expect table fog support. Choosing this option will ensure that such games will run properly. Adjust Z-buffer depth to rendering depth if unequal This option forces the hardware to automatically adjust the depth of its Z-buffer to the depth that the application requests. Normally, you will want to keep this option enabled, unless your work absolutely requires a specific Z-buffer depth.
III. Windows 95/98 More Direct3D Texel Alignment Changing these values will change where the texel origin is defined. The default values conform to the Direct3D specifications. Some software may expect the texel origin to be defined elsewhere. The image quality of such applications will improve if the texel origin is redefined. III. Windows 95/98 Direct3D More Direct3D lets you set additional options that affect the performance and compatibility of your D3D games.
III. Windows 95/98 OpenGL Settings OpenGL Settings allows you to make adjustments on the color settings for your OpenGL applications, namely performance and compatibility and mipmapping. III. Windows 95/98 OpenGL Performance and Compatibility Options Performance and Compatibility Options lets you set options that affect the performance and compatibility of your OpenGL applications. Enable buffer region extension This option allows the drivers to use the OpenGL extension GL_KTX_buffer_region.
III. Windows 95/98 Default color depth for textures This option determines whether textures of a specific color depth should be used by default in OpenGL applications. Options are Use desktop color depth (default), Always use 16 bpp, and Always use 32 bpp. Buffer flipping mode This option determines the buffer flipping mode for full-screen OpenGL applications. Options are Auto-select (default), Use block transfer, and Use page flip.
III. Windows 95/98 Overlay Color Control Overlay Color Control allows you to make adjustments on the quality of video or DVD playback on your monitor. You can independently control the brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation to achieve optimal image quality when playing back videos or DVD movies on your computer. III. Windows 95/98 Overlay Control Dragging a slider to the left decreases the level and to the right increases it.
III. Windows 95/98 Other Options III. Windows 95/98 Other Options Other Options lets you select the proper timing mode of your monitor and display the Quick Tweak icon in the taskbar. Monitor Timing Monitor Timing lets you select the proper timing mode for your monitor. Auto-Detect (let Windows determine the proper mode) This option allows Windows to receive the proper timing information directly from the monitor itself. This is the default setting.
III. Windows 95/98 Display the Quick Tweak icon in the taskbar Display the Quick Tweak icon in the taskbar lets you add the V6600 Quick Tweak icon on the Windows taskbar. Right-clicking the QuickTweak icon (user-definable from a drop-down combo box) on the taskbar provides you with a menu that allows you to apply any of the custom OpenGL, Direct3D, or Color Settings “on-the-fly”. The popup menu also contains items for restoring default settings and accessing the Display Properties dialog box.
IV. Windows NT 4.0 Install Display Driver WARNING! Before installing the display driver in Windows NT 4.0, make sure that you have installed Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack3 or later, to take full advantage of the ASUS AGP-V6600 AGP features. (You may download service packs at http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads.) NOTE: The following steps assume your CD-ROM drive letter is D. Installation Procedures ASUS AGP-V6600 Series User’s Manual IV. Windows NT Install Driver 1.
V. Resolution Table Resolution Color Depth 8bpp = 256 colors Standard 16bpp = 65K colors High Color 32bpp = 16.7M colors True Color V. Resolution 640 x 480 60Hz 70Hz 72Hz 75Hz 85Hz 100Hz 120Hz 140Hz 144Hz 150Hz 170Hz 200Hz 240Hz 31.5 34.9 37.9 37.5 43.3 51.0 61.8 72.9 75.2 78.7 90.3 108.0 132.9 √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ 800 x 600 60Hz 70Hz 72Hz 75Hz 85Hz 100Hz 120Hz 140Hz 144Hz 170Hz 200Hz 240Hz 37.9 43.8 48.2 46.9 53.7 63.7 77.2 91.1 94.
V. Resolution Table Vertical Horizontal Frequency Frequency Color Depth 8bpp = 256 colors Standard 16bpp = 65K colors High Color 32bpp = 16.7M colors True Color 60Hz 70Hz 72Hz 75Hz 85Hz 100Hz 120Hz 140Hz 144Hz 150Hz 170Hz 64.0 74.6 76.8 80.0 91.3 108.5 131.7 155.9 159.6 167.3 191.8 √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ 1600 x 900 60Hz 70Hz 72Hz 75Hz 85Hz 100Hz 120Hz 140Hz 144Hz 150Hz 55.9 65.6 67.5 70.5 80.4 95.3 115.4 136.8 140.4 146.
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VI. Troubleshooting Recommended Action VI. Troubleshooting Description After installation and re- • Make sure the “Assign IRQ to VGA” option is enstarting, Windows 95/98 abled in the BIOS. informs me that the display • Check if there is enough IRQ for VGA. setting is still incorrect. • Uninstall the driver, restart, and reinstall the driver. My monitor is not capable • It depends on the display characteristics of your of high resolution or remonitor. Consult your monitor documentation for the fresh rate.
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