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Congratulation on the purchase of this VGA board! You are now the owner of a state-

of -the-art video adapter that offers features and functionality equal to, and beyond any

other in the VGA class.

System Requirements

The minimum system requirements for installing the graphics card are as follows:

 a personal computer with a Pentium, Pentium II or compatible microprocessor and at

least 8MB of memory

 a VGA analog monitor supporting a minimum 60Hz vertical refresh rate

 a free AGP bus slot

 a CD-ROM drive

Features

 nVIDIA RIVA TNT TwiN-Texel 32-bit Graphics Engine.

- 2 Texture-mapped, Lit Pixels per Clock

- Single Pass Multi-texture Rendering

 24-bit Z-butter, 8-bit Stencil Buffer

 High Performance 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw Acceleration

 128-bit Wide Framebuffer Interface Supports up to 16MB SGRAM/SDRAM

 250 MHz Palette-DAC Supports up to 1600x1200@85Hz

 NTSC and PAL Digital Output Port External Digital TV Encoders Support (optional)

 Variable Length Burst DMA Bus Mastering for Data transfers over 450MB/s

Throughput.

 66MHz AGP clock rate and AGP 2X mode.

 TextureBlend supports Multi-texturing, Bump-mapping, Texture-modulation, Light

Maps, Reflection Maps, Detail Textures, Environmental Maps, Procedural Textures

- 32-bit ARGB Rendering with Destination Alpha

- Point Sampled, Bilinear, Trilinear and 8-tap Anisotropic Filtering

 Per Pixel Perspective Correct Texture Mapping

- Fog, Light, and Mip Mapping

 100% Hardware Triangle Setup Engine

 Optimized for DirectX Support

Software Support

 Windows 95

 Windows 98

 Windows NT4.0

 DirectX

Overview

Summary of content (15 pages)

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Overview Congratulation on the purchase of this VGA board! You are now the owner of a stateof -the-art video adapter that offers features and functionality equal to, and beyond any other in the VGA class.
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Hardware Installation CAUTION ! Static electricity can severely damage electronic parts. Take these precautions: Before touching any electronic parts, drain the static electricity from your body. You can do this by touching the internal metal frame of your computer while it's unplugged. Don't remove a card from the anti-static container it shipped in until you're ready to install it. When you remove a card from your computer, place it back in its container.
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2 Hardware Installation Insert your Graphic Card Remove the cover for the slot you intend to use and save the screw for the mounting bracket. Then, pick up the Graphic card and position it over the expansion slot you've chosen. Push the card with firmly and evenly until it's fully seated in the slot. Replace the screw to secure the bracket of the Graphic card to the computer chassis.
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3 Software Installation Before installing the Display driver, make sure your Windows 95/98/NT is installed in VGA mode and work fine. For Windows 95 system, please install the DirectX before you want to play the MPEG Movie Player. To use an AGP graphics card with NT4.0, you may need to pre-install NT with Service Pack 3 (SP3) before installing the AGP card. If you are running Windows NT4.0, please note that some drivers are not compatible with earlier releases of Windows NT.
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4 Display Properties for Windows The pictures in this chapter are only for reference. The Display Properties is described as below: Figure 4-1 for Win95 Figure 4-2 for Win98 Click the right mouse button anywhere on the Windows desktop and select Properties from the pop-up menu that appears on screen. For Win95, please select RIVA TNT item. For Win98, please select Settings│Advanced button then choose RIVA TNT item as Figure 43.
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4 Display Properties for Windows As Figure 4-4 the slider controls allow you to adjust the gamma values for each channel (red, green, or blue). Use the same gamma value for all channels check box: Selecting this option will link all three gamma slider together, allowing the gamma value for all channels to be adjusted by the same amount when any one of them is moved.
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4 Display Properties for Windows Advanced: Displays a dialog that allows you to customize additional Direct3D settings for the RIVA TNT. Restore Defaults: Restores all settings to their default values. (As Figure 4-6) Texture Quality: Allows you to adjust the image quality of textures displayed in OpenGL applications. Optimize for best image quality: Renders textures with the highest image quality available for the best appearance.
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5 Expertool for Windows For maximum compatibility and flexibility, the Expertool can be loaded and unloaded dynamically, but note that many of the features it provides are only available while the Expertool is running. The pictures in this chapter are only for reference. The Expertool is a display control and desktop enhancement utility for Windows 95/98/NT, specially designed and optimized for use with your graphics accelerator.
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Figure 5-4 Figure 5-5 (As Figure 5-4) Desk Top: Displays the current Resolution Setting, Color Setting, Font Size and Refresh Rate for the monitor whose video adapter in Desk Top. Drag the slider to specify the each one you want and click OK button to take effect. (As Figure 5-5) Information: Appears the current settings and information of your computer. Run this program each time Windows starts check box: Select this option to run the Expertool immediately each time when Windows starts.
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peek performance and maximum stability. The higher memory clock setting you select the higher performance shows. But change the value will affect the stability of VGA card. It's better for you to use the original setting value. Figure 5-8 Figure 5-9 (As Figure 5-8) DirectX: DirectX properties vary depending on the version of windows you are running, the version of DirectX installed, and the type of DirectX-enabled drivers installed.
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7 Trouble Shooting Problem: After installation and restarting, Windows 95 informs me that display setting is still incorrect. What can I do? There may be conflict between previous and current display drivers. This is caused by not complete removal of previous display driver. Try the following steps to remove it: Solution: (1) Use right button of mouse to click on "My Computer" icon on desktop.
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Solution: The VGA card may not be firmly inserted into the expansion slot. Ensure that the goldstriped bus connector of the graphics card is properly inserted into the expansion slot. Ensure this by pressing the card gently and evenly into the slot. Alternatively, remove the card and re-insert it. 7 Trouble Shooting Problem: Monitor display flickers after Windows 95 or Windows 98 starts. Solution: Your monitor may not support the resolution or refresh rate that you have set.
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7 Trouble Shooting When you need advanced technique service, please Complete this form and FAX to your dealer. Your name: Phone : Product S/N: P/ N: HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Mainboard Chipset: CPU Clock: Mainboard CPU: VGA Memory Brand: Mainboard Memory: MB VGA Memory Mainboard Brand: VGA BIOS: CD Version: VGA Driver: Cache Memory: KB MHz MB Resolution: Monitor: Resolution Rate: O.S.: Horizontal Freq. : Vertical Freq.
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When you need advanced technique service, please Complete this form and FAX to your dealer. Your name: Phone : Product S/N: P/ N: Note: 7 Trouble Shooting SOFTWARE CONDITION CONFIG.SYS: AUTOEXEC.
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