PNY Quadro Professional Graphics Accelerators User Manual Quadro4 XGL Series Quadro4 NVS Series Quadro2 Series PNY Technologies, Inc.
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction .............................................. 1 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation................................. 3 Chapter 3 Software Installation................................. 12 Chapter 4 nVidia nView Installation......................... 13 Chapter 5 Display Properties .................................... 32 Chapter 6 MAXtreme ............................................... 52 Chapter 7 POWERdraft...........................................
Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your Quadro graphics accelerator board from PNY Technologies. You are now the owner of a state-of-the-art graphics accelerator that was designed for professional 3D and 2D applications, and offers features and functionality beyond any other card in its class. We recommend that you read through this User Guide before installing your accelerator board to ensure a proper installation.
Before You Begin • Before installing the Display driver, make sure your Windows® /2000/ XP or NT was installed in VGA mode and functions properly. • To use an AGP graphics card with Windows® NT4.0, you may need to re-install NT with Service Pack 5 (SP5) or Service Pack 6 (SP6) 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.
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation IMPORTANT Static electricity can severely damage electronic parts. Please take these precautions when installing your graphics card: • Before touching any electronic parts, discharge the static electricity from your body by touching the internal metal frame of your computer while it is unplugged. • Do not remove a card from the anti-static container it shipped in until you are ready to install it.
Selecting the Proper Expansion Slot Most computers have a combination of AGP, PCI and ISA expansion slots. All these slots may look similar at first, however you will notice their differences once you examine them more closely. The ISA connectors are black and are the largest of the three types. The AGP slot on your computer motherboard is usually the closest connector to the CPU and is made from a plastic of a contrasting brown color.
Inserting Your Graphics Card Remove the back of the PC cover for the slot you intend to use and save the screw for the mounting bracket of your new PNY Quadro graphics card. Position the Quadro graphics card over the expansion slot that coincides with the type (AGP or PCI) of card purchased. Push the card firmly and evenly until it’s fully seated into the slot. Replace the screw to secure the bracket of the graphic’s card to the computer chassis. Replace the cover of your computer.
Plug your Monitor or Flat Panel Display cable into the appropriate connector on your graphic card. All cables MUST be connected before your computer is powered on. Quadro4 550 XGL, Quadro4 200 NVS and Quadro4 400 NVS Connectors The Quadro4 200 NVS and the Quadro4 550 XGL have a single LFH 60-pin connector. The Quadro4 400 NVS has two LFH 60-pin connectors. Each LFH connector can support two monitors, using the supplied splitter cable. Your card ships with one VGA+VGA splitter cable per LFH port.
Quadro4 700/750 XGL Connectors The Quadro4 700/750 XGL has both VGA and DVI-I connectors. These connectors support: • Single VGA output • Dual VGA output (using one DVI-I to VGA adapter) • Single DVI-I output • VGA + DVI-I output • The Quadro4 750 XGL also supports 3D stereo out through a standard 3-pin connector.
Quadro4 900 XGL Connectors The Quadro4 900 XGL has dual DVI-I connectors. This card supports: • Single VGA output (using a DVI-I to VGA adapter) • Dual VGA output (using two DVI-I to VGA adapters) • VGA + DVI-I output (using a DVI-I to VGA adapter) • DVI-I + DVI-I output • The Quadro4 900 XGL also supports 3D stereo out through a standard 3-pin connector DVI-I Connector Stereo 3D Connector DVI-I Connector connector.
Quadro DCC Connectors The Quadro DCC has both VGA and DVI-I connectors, but only supports a single display.
Quadro2 MXR Connectors The Quadro2 MXR has both VGA and DVI-I connectors.
Quadro2 EX Connector The Quadro2 EX has a single VGA connector, supporting a single monitor.
Chapter 3 Software Installation Did you Uninstall your existing VGA driver? • If Yes, proceed with Chapter 3. • If No, go back to Chapter 1 ‘Uninstalling Your VGA Driver’, complete the process and then continue with Chapter 3. Installing the Standard Graphics Adapter (VGA) Driver. • Power up you computer and launch Windows®, 2000, XP or NT. • The Building Driver Database dialog box will appear as the Windows® operating system builds the database. • When the Add New Hardware Wizard appears, click Next.
Chapter 4 nVidia nView Installation About NVidia nView nVidia’s nView is a desktop utility designed to give you an easier way of managing multiple displays and enhancing your desktop. Once you install the nVidia drivers and reboot, the nVidia nView wizard will appear. You can either choose to install it or cancel the nView setup. Each screen will give you a brief description of the options nView will enable.
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Using nView Desktop Manager: Once nView is setup, you can access the nView Desktop manager and adjust different settings to how you wish. There are a total of 5 options to go through: Profiles, Windows, Effect, Hot Keys and Desktops.
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Chapter 5 Display Properties Color Settings and Screen Area After completing installation of the display drivers, you are now ready to configure the display properties of your card. To open the properties page of your computer or change the display properties, simply right-click the Windows XP desktop wallpaper area and select “Properties”. The “Display Properties” windows will appear on your screen as shown below. Colors: Displays the current color setting for the monitor.
Quadro Properties The following screenshots are representative of the Quadro based products, but may vary based on actual card installed. The following screenshots were taken using a Quadro4 900 XGL. DPI setting: Enables you to set the dots per inch so that screen items and fonts are legible. Compatibility: Select the appropriate choice as to when you want settings applied.
Adapter Information This tab displays adapter information and system information. Properties: Shows driver version number and resource settings. List All Modes: Displays the supported monitor resolutions and refresh rates.
Monitor The Monitor tab displays the identification and refresh rate information for the connected monitor. Properties: Shows driver version number for the monitor.
Troubleshoot The Troubleshoot tab enables you to adjust the level of hardware acceleration when attempting to solve problems with your system.
Color Management The Color Management tab enables you to load color profiles for your monitor.
Graphic’s Card Specific Settings This tab enables you to make adjustments to settings specific to your accelerator card. Display driver version numbers and other key information on your card are displayed. Additional Properties: Brings up the subsequent dialogs to adjust your driver settings for optimal performance and quality. NVIDIA on the Internet: Connects to NVIDIA’s web site for the most current information and software downloads.
Antialiasing Settings This tab will allow you to manually or automatically select the antialiasing mode to be used with your 3D applications You can allow applications to adjust the antialiasing mode, or manually override and select the type of antialiasing your desire.
OpenGL Settings Performance and Compatibility Options: These options can increase application performance in OpenGL 3D applications. Default color depth for textures: This option determines the color depth of textures used by default in OpenGL applications: 16 bpp, 32 bpp or the desktop color depth. Buffer flipping mode: You can select from the block transfer method, or Auto-select. Auto-select allows the driver to determine the best method based on your hardware configuration.
Direct3D Settings The following Direct3D Performance and Compatibility Options are explained so that the user may adjust the settings if needed to obtain optimal performance. Enable fog table emulation This option is used to turn fog table emulation on or off. Direct3D specifies that a display adapter capable of Direct3D hardware acceleration should be able to implement either vertex fog or table fog. Some games do not correctly query the D3D hardware capabilities and expect table fog support.
Direct3D Settings (continued) PCI Texture Memory Size This allows the graphics processor to utilize up to specified amount of system memory for texture storage (in addition to the memory installed on the display adapter itself). Note: The maximum amount of system memory that can be reserved for texture storage is calculated based on the amount of physical RAM installed in your computer. The more system RAM, the higher the value you will be able to set.
More Direct3D Settings Texel Alignment: This option changes the hardware texture addressing scheme for texels (texture elements). Changing these values will change where 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.
Overlay Controls Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation Control allows the adjustment of the quality of video or DVD playback on your monitor. You can independently control the brightness, contrast, hue and saturation to achieve optimal quality when playing back videos or DVD movies on your computer. Video Overlay Zoom: Enables the controls to zoom in on a specific area of the video output.
Desktop Utilities Quick Tweak lets you add the NVIDIA Quick Tweak icon to the Windows taskbar. The icon allows you to apply any of the custom Direct3D, OpenGL or color settings “On the fly” from a convenient popup menu. The menus also contain items for restoring default settings and accessing the Display Properties dialog. Desktop Manager enables enhanced multi-display functionality. Complete Desktop Manager documentation is located on the Quadro CD.
nView nVidia nView is an extremely flexible system for managing multiple displays as a single desktop space. Complete nView documentation is located on the Software Installation CD in the nView directory. nView Modes allows you to control the relative position of multiple displays. Detect Displays is used to have your Quadro card recognize the displays that are connected. Device Settings gives you access to ‘Color Correction’ and ‘Screen Adjustment’ dialog boxes.
Color Correction Digital Vibrance gives you more control over color separation and intensity, resulting in brighter cleaner images in all of your applications. Active Color Channel allows you to select the color channel controlled by the sliders. You can adjust the red, green or blue channels individually or all three channels at once. Brightness, Contrast and Gamma Controls: allow you to adjust the selected color channel.
Device Selection This tab enables you to select the output display device (monitor or digital flat panel) depending on which devices your display adapter supports. Detect Displays is used to have your Quadro card recognize the displays that are connected. Device Adjustments gives you access to ‘Screen Adjustment’ and ‘Display Timing’ dialog boxes.
Screen Adjustment This tab enables you to fine tune the position of the desktop on your monitor.
Display Timing This tab enables you to fine tune the position of the desktop on your monitor. Auto-Detect allows Windows to receive the proper timing information directly from the monitor itself. This is the default setting. Note that some older monitors may not support this feature. General Timing Formula or GTF is a standard used by the newer hardware. Discrete Monitor Timings or DMT is an older standard still in use on some hardware. Enable this option if your hardware requires DMT.
Digital Flat Panel The options on this tab allow you to determine the placement of the image on your flat panel display when running at resolutions lower than the maximum resolution supported.
Chapter 6 MAXtreme Introduction MAXtreme is a 3D driver that is specifically optimized for use with the PNY Quadro4 750 XGL and the PNY Quadro4 900 XGL workstation graphics cards.
Before you system: • • • • • install and use this driver, you must have the following components fully functional on your Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP operating system A PNY Quadro workstation graphics card Windows 2000/XP Display Driver or Windows NT 4.0 Display Driver (Version 6.49 or higher) AutoCAD already installed "Write access" to the 3D Studio MAX/VIZ main directory and the Windows system directory From the MAXtreme directory, click the Setup.
Chapter 7 POWERdraft Introduction POWERdraft is designed to enhance the performance and features of the following applications: • AutoCAD 2002/2000/2000i • AutoCAD Architectural Desktop Version 2/3.3 • Autodesk Mechanical Desktop 4/5/6 For detailed information on the features of POWERdraft, refer to the online Help file. Installing POWERdraft The driver Setup directory contains the following files: • README.TXT important notes about using this software • LANG15EN.HLP Windows help files in English • SETUP.
To install POWERdraft: 1. Make sure AutoCAD is not running. 2. Start SETUP.EXE from the POWERdraft installation directory. The driver is installed in a separate driver directory. SETUP creates a program group containing the following icons: • "POWERdraft Help" opens the online Help file. • "Configure POWERdraft" configures POWERdraft as the AutoCAD display driver. • "Configure Original Driver" configures the AutoCAD original display driver (WHIP).
Chapter 8 QuadroView Introduction NVIDIA QuadroView is an add-on 3D viewing application designed for use with any of these applications: • AutoCAD 2002/2000/2000i • AutoCAD Architectural Desktop Release 2/2i • Mechanical Desktop Release 4/5/6 NOTE: QuadroView can also be run in stand-alone mode The NVIDIA QuadroView directory contains the following files: Readme.txt important information about QuadroView Setup.
To install QuadroView, click the Setup.exe icon in the QuadroView directory and follow the prompts from the InstallShield program. NOTE: If the installation program stops processing and generates an error message, try to run the installer after logging in with Administrator privileges. Starting QuadroView To start QuadroView in stand-alone mode… From your Windows desktop, click Start > Programs > NVIDIA Corporation > QuadroView 2.
Chapter 9 Technical Specifications Display Modes Table Resolution Colors Vertical Refresh Rate 640x480 8/16/32 bits 60Hz to 240Hz 800x600 8/16/32 bits 60Hz to 240Hz 1024x768 8/16 bits 60Hz to 240Hz 1024x768 32 bits 60Hz to 200Hz 1152x864 8/16 bits 60Hz to 200Hz 1152x864 32 bits 60Hz to 170Hz 1280x960 8/16 bits 60Hz to 170Hz 1280x960 32 bits 60Hz to 150Hz 1280x1024 8/16 bits 60Hz to 170Hz 1280x1024 32 bits 60Hz to 150Hz PNY Quadro User Manual page 58
Display Modes Table (continued) Resolution Colors Vertical Refresh Rate 1600x900 8/16 bits 60Hz to 150Hz 1600x900 32 bits 60Hz to 120Hz 1600x1200 8/16 bits 60Hz to 120Hz 1600x1200 32 bits 60Hz to 100Hz 1920x1080 8/16 bits 60Hz to 100Hz 1920x1080 32 bits 60Hz to 85Hz 1920x1200 8/16 bits 60Hz to 100Hz 1920x1200 32 bits 60Hz to 85Hz 1920x1440 8/16 bits 60Hz to 85Hz 1920x1440 32 bits 60Hz to 75Hz 2048x1536 8/16 bits 60Hz to 75Hz 2048x1536 32 bits 60Hz PNY Quadro User Manua
Digital Flat Panel Supported Modes Resolution Colors 640x480 8/16/32 bits 800x600 8/16/32 bits 1024x768 8/16/32 bits 1280x1024 8/16/32 bits The following flat panel displays have been certified for use with the PNY Quadro4 200 NVS: Compaq TFT5010 Compaq TFT5030 Dell 1702FP Eizo L365 Eizo L685 Eizo L461 Flatron LG-782LE Flatron LG-L1800P HP Pavilion F50 HP Pavilion F70 HP L1720 PNY Quadro User Manual HP 1520 IBM T560 IBM T84H IBM T545 Princeton Senergy 751 Samsung SyncMaster 150T Samsung SyncMaste
The following flat panel displays have been certified for use with the PNY Quadro4 550 XGL: Compaq TFT7020 Compaq TFT5010 Dell 1702FP Eizo L685 Eizo L365 Eizo L461 Flatron LG-782LE Flatron LG-L1800P HP Pavilion F50 HP Pavilion F70 HP L1520 IBM T560 IBM T84H IBM T750 Samsung Syncmaster 181T PNY Quadro User Manual page 61
Chapter 10 Support PNY Technologies provides ‘Live Technical Support’ 5 days a week from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Monday thru Pacific Standard Time. Our Automated Technical Support System is designed to provide help with common day-to-day graphic card issues. It’s available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For additional help you may visit the PNY Tech Support website at http://www.pny.
PNY’s Replacement Warranty PNY Technologies, Inc. (“PNY”), manufacturer of your newly purchased PNY graphics card (the “product”), warrants the product to be free from defects in materials and workmanship for three-years (upon completion of a registration form on PNY’s website) of the product as sold to the original purchaser (“purchaser”), subject to all the terms and conditions hereunder. This warranty is not assignable.
FCC Information This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 1 5 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
