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NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 8X User’ s Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................... 1 1. NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 8X Features ...................................................................... 2 2. Hardware installation................................................................................................... 3 3. Resolutions and colors supported:............................................................
1. NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 8X Features GeForce4 MX440 8X AGP bus, w ith 64MB DDR SDRAM on Board Graphics core 256-BIT Fill rate (AA samples/sec.) 1.2 BILLION Triangles/sec 37 MILLION Memory bandwidth 8.0 GB/SEC nView Display Technology Provides unprecedented flexibility and control for using multiple displays. nView boosts productivity by enabling the user to have two simultaneous displays for every GPU. Multiple graphics cards can be used if more than two displays are required.
True-color hardware cursor High-quality HDTV/DVD playback True, reflective bump mapping Multibuffering (double, triple, quad) for smooth animation and video playback Support for AGP 3.0 signaling at 0.8 V AGP3.0 support for 8X and 4X and AGP2.0 support for 4X, 2X, 1X AGP 8X data and sideband address (SBA) transfers at rates up to 533MT/s, resulting in a theoretical data transfer rate of 2.
3. Resolutions and colors supported: GeForce4 MX440 8X B.P.P.
4. Smart Installation Support Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Windows ME System. Note: If you already have old nVIDIA drivers in your system, please remove old nVIDIA drivers before install new drivers. 4.1 Remove old Drivers: (only if you have old nVIDIA drivers) From “ Start” , “ Setting” , select “ Control Panel” , double click “ Add or remove drivers” . Then comes up the list, find “ NVIDIA WINDOWS … ” , select it and click “ install or remove” to remove it.
4.4 If everything fine, screen will show Confirm Installation window. Then Select OK 4.5 Now appears the Driver Confirmation window Select Install If the drivers is very new may not be certified by Microsoft, if so, system will prompt you the drivers do not have “ digital signature” , still you can force to install. 4.6 Then click “Yes” to restart your computer.
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5. Manually install Windows XP drivers Note: If you already have old nVIDIA drivers in your system, please remove old nVIDIA drivers before install new drivers. 5.1 Remove old Drivers: (only if you have old nVIDIA drivers) From “ Start” , “ Setting” , select “ Control Panel” , double click “ Add or remove drivers” . Then comes up the list, find “ NVIDIA WINDOWS … ” , select it and click “ install or remove” to remove it. Reboot your system and go on next step. 5.
5.3 How to Change Color Depth and Resolution in Windows XP Make sure that you have installed Windows Driver. 1. Select Control Panel from Start menu 2. Select the Display icon 3. Double-click on the Display icon in the Control Panel folder. You can also click the right mouse button anywhere on the desktop and select the Properties option form the pop-out menu.
5.4 How to Change Refresh Rate in Windows XP 1. Make sure that you have installed windows XP Driver. Click on the Start box in the lower left corner and proceed to Setting, Control Panel 2. Inside the Control panel group, click on Display icon to open the Display Properties folder and choose Settings click the Advance Settings choose Monitor 3. Click on the Refresh Rate sub window to change refresh rate 4. Select OK and new refresh rate takes effect 5. Refresh Rate default is Optimal. 6.
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5.5 NVIDIA Utility in Windows System 5.5.1 GeForce4 MX440 8X (NVIDIA) Display Adapter Information Table, you can tell the BIOS and Drivers version, NVIDIA Chip model name, IRQ setting and more useful information. Additional Properties…is for advance user to setting OpenGL, Direct3D, Overlay control, Desktop Utilities and 3D antialiasing settings. NVIDIA on the Internet>> can reach NVIDIA official web site for more NVIDIA news.
5.5.2 nView nView have 4 modes : Standard, Clone, Horizontal span and Vertical span. If the optional connector is connected, you will be able to choose one as Windows default display device. Only the device is plugged and functional, You will be able to check the selection box. If you plug the connector after window boot up, click Detect Displays to enable the plugged output device.
5.5.2.1 Standard mode: nView disabled, only one monitor will work. Click Device Settings >> , you can select output device – CRT or TV. Or you can select Advanced …and select output device. Click Video output format bar to select S-Video or RCA (Composite Video) output, default is S-Video Out. It is better choose the right out put device, Do not use Auto select. Click Change Format to select your country and TV system – NTSC or PAL, no SECAM.
5.5.2.2 Color correction… Click Device Settings >>, select Color Correction…. This Window shows NVIDIA Digital Vibrance is functional and you can adjust Brightness, Contrast, Gamma and save it as your favorite setting. If you don’ t like your adjustments, you can also check Automatically apply these settings at startup to change it back.
5.5.2.3 Screen Adjustment… Click Device Settings >>, select Screen Adjustment… You can click the arrow to adjust screen position. From Flicker filter Bar, you can adjust the flicker filter effect. 5.5.2.4 Display Timing… Display Timing can let you set your computer timing. Default setting is “Auto-detect(Windows determines the proper mode)”. The other 2 options are “General Timing Formula (GTF) ” and “Discrete Monitor Timings (DMT)”.
5.5.2.5 nView enable mode You need two monitors, one analog monitor(CRT) and one TV or DVI (Optional). All connected well and functional. Clone mode: 2 monitors show the same picture, Select Clone and Click Apply to active. Horizontal span mode: Picture spans horizontally on 2 monitors. Select Horizontal span, Click Apply to active. Vertical span mode: Picture spans vertically on 2 monitors Select Vertical span, Click Apply to active. Monitor with blue frame is active.
6. Manually install Windows 98 and Windows ME drivers Note: If you already have old nVIDIA drivers in your system, please remove old nVIDIA drivers before install new drivers. 6.1 Remove old Drivers: (only if you have old nVIDIA drivers) From “ Start” , “ Setting” , select “ Control Panel” , double click “ Add or remove drivers” . Then comes up the list, find “ NVIDIA WINDOWS … ” , select it and click “ install or remove” to remove it. Reboot your system and go on next step. 6.
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6.3 How to Change Color Depth and Resolution Make sure that you have installed windows98/ME Driver. Click on the Start box in the lower left corner and proceed to Control Panel.
7. Manually install Windows 2000 drivers 7.1 First time install drivers under windows2000 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. When system boot up, system will prompt find new device. Suppose the device is VGA, now system will find the default drivers for you. If you want to install our drivers along with the GeForce4 MX pack. Please put the drivers CD in your CDROM drive. If now shows SmartInstall window, please click EXIT button to quit. Drivers for windows2000 are located at \drivers\NVIDIA \7300\win2K_XP (If 7300 not exis
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