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Xwave Thunder 3D

6/01/99

Xwave Thunder 3D™ PCI Audio Accelerator

User’s Guide

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Summary of content (18 pages)

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Xwave Thunder 3D Xwave Thunder 3D™ PCI Audio Accelerator User’s Guide © Copyright 1999 This documentation and the accompanying software are copyright © 1999 Labway Corporation. All rights reserved. This documentation and the accompanying software are copyright © 1999 QSound Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Thunder 3D is a trademark of Labway Corporation. QSound, QEM, QSound Environmental Modeling, QMSS, Q3D, QXpander and the Q logo are trademarks of QSound Labs, Inc.
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Xwave Thunder 3D Disclaimer Statement..................................................................................................1 1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................3 1.1 Features: ..........................................................................................................3 1.2 Card Figure ......................................................................................................4 1.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 1 Introduction Congratulations! You have just acquired a sound card based on the most advanced 3D PCI audio accelerator available today. Xwave Thunder 3D is a high performance PCI audio accelerator jointly developed by Labway Corporation It combines the most compelling 3D, quadraphonic and music synthesis technologies available with the powerful yet cost effective ActiMedia DSP architecture.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 1.2 Card Figure CD-IN LINE IN MIC IN Front Speaker Rear Speaker J1 J10 J2 TAD AUX In J13 J12 J11 J3 AC 97 J4 VLSI VT21702 MIDI/ JOYSTICK J16 J5 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllll Wavetable Connector PC/PCI 1.3 Connectors for Thunder 3D 1.3.1 External Connectors: J1:...................... ∅ 3.5mm Phone Jack for LINE IN J2:...................... ∅ 3.5mm Phone Jack for MIC IN J3:...................... ∅ 3.5mm Phone Jack for FRONT SPEAKER. J4:......................
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Xwave Thunder 3D 1.4 Audio Connectors Pin Assignment: J10 (CD-IN) L G G R J11 (CD-IN) G L G R L: LEFT CHANNEL SIGNAL G: GROUND R: RIGHT CHANNEL SIGNAL L: LEFT CHANNEL SIGNAL G: GROUND R: RIGHT CHANNEL SIGNAL L: LEFT CHANNEL SIGNAL G: GROUND R: RIGHT CHANNEL SIGNAL J12 (AUX-IN) R G G L 1: PHONE IN 2,3 : GROUND 4: MONO OUT J13 (TAD/Voice Modem) 1 2 3 4 2 4 6 1 3 5 1: PCGNT # 2: GROUND 3: N.C.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 2.2 Safety Precaution • Do not remove your sound card from its protective bag until you are ready to install it. • Always try to hold your sound card by its edges. Avoid touching any electronic components on your sound card. • Static electricity can cause permanent damage to your sound card. To prevent such damage, you must ground yourself while installing the card. • Use a grounding strap - a coiled wire with a clip at one end and an elastic strap at the other.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 3. Align your sound card with the selected PCI Bus-Slot and firmly push it into the slot. If the sound card does not slide in, do not force it. Make sure the sound card is aligned properly and try it again. 2. Select an available PCI Bus-Slot, and if necessary, remove its cover plate. Keep the mounting screw to secure your sound card later. 4. Secure your sound card to the chassis of your computer with the mounting screw removed in Step 2.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 3.2 Connecting the Sound Card You may connect a variety of audio equipment to your sound card as shown in the illustration below: Line-In: Connect from any external sound sources, example, from the Line/Audio Out of your external Audio CD-ROM or minihifi. (Sound will be transmitted out from the attached speakers) Microphone Jack: Connect to a microphone. Example, you may want to sing Karaoke through the microphone.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 4.1 Installing Driver under Real DOS In real DOS mode, you must have your DOS CD-ROM drivers loaded for access to the install CD. Another way to do this is to simply run INSTALL.EXE from a DOS box in Windows. 4.1.1 Installing the device driver 1. Run INSTALL.EXE from the DOS directory on the CD. This installation program will create the Tbird directory on any drive you desire. Follow the screen prompts to install the files to your hard drive. The install program will edit your autoexec.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 2. Select Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended). Click NEXT.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 3. Please select Specify a location and browse to your directory where the driver files are located, click Next>. 4. As the figure shown below which indicates windows has found the driver at the specified location, please select NEXT to install the drivers. 5. Windows then copies the files. You may be prompted to insert your Windows system CD, as the core sound components of the operating system may need to be copied as well.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 6. Please click FINISH to continue installing the driver. The installation will continue detecting devices and retrieving the necessary files to your system. The second device is the PCI Audio Support Registers device. Last will be the PCI Audio Gameport Device. Windows will finish installing the drivers for Thunder 3D automatically. Note: When the “DirectX® Setup” dialog box appears, please click OK to enable the DirectSound3D Hardware Acceleration.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 7. To check if you have successfully installed the Thunder 3D™ driver, please go to the “Device Manager” of “System Properties” in Control Panel.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 5 Configuring the Thunder 3D for Windows® 95/98: Joystick Driver 1. Open the Control Panel and double-click on the Game Controllers icon. Select the Advanced tab and under Port Driver Assignment select VLSI Tbird128_GamePort Driver. 2. Select the General tab and click the Add… button. You may select any one of the Game Controllers listed, then click OK.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 3. After making your selection, highlight the selected controller in Game Controllers and click the Properties… button. Select Calibrate…and calibrate your joystick.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 6 Windows® NT® Installation 6.1 Installing Device Drivers under NT4.0 This section describes the necessary procedures for installing the Thunder 3D™ device driver under NT4.0. Please follow the steps described below to properly install the driver. Note: you must have the appropriate privileges in order to install the drivers. 1. Boot the system to the Windows NT desktop. 2. Click START, select RUN, In the Run dialog box browse to the NT folder NT40 on the driver CD and then click Setup.
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Xwave Thunder 3D 7.1 Uninstalling Device Driver under Win95/98 1. Select Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and select Thunder 3D Audio Support Files. Click the Add/Remove… button. 2. You will be prompted to shutdown your computer after uninstalling for the changes to take effect. Click Yes to shutdown your computer and then remove Thunder 3DTM from your system. 7.2 Uninstalling Device Driver under NT4.0 1.
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Xwave Thunder 3D FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENT: This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. INFORMATION TO USER: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.