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Gigabyte GV-R7500L User Manual

Gigabyte GV-R7500L User Manual

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  • Page 1 GV-R7500L RADEON 7500 Graphics Accelerator USER'S MANUAL ¤¤¤å¨Ï¥Î¤â¥U REV. 103 12MD-R7500L-103...
  • Page 2 Macrovision Corporation, and is intended for home and other limited viewing uses only unless otherwise authorized by Macrovision Corporation. Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited. March 17, 2003 Taipei, Taiwan GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 2 -...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents 1.INTRODUCTION 1.1. PREFACE ................... 4 1.2. Overview ..................4 2.HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.1. UNPACKING ................5 2.2. BOARD LAYOUT ................. 6 2.3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ............7 3.SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 3.1Win98/98SE , WinME ,WinXP Driver And Utilities Installation ..9 3.1.1 Operating system requirement ..........

  • Page 4: Introduction

    1.INTRODUCTION 1.1. PREFACE Gigabyte 7500 Series is a powerful and versatile graphic solution. 64MB of powerful DDR memory along with the RADEON™ 7500 GPU provides high performance acceleration of today’ s demand- ing 3D graphic applications. Industry leading DVD playback, 1.2.

  • Page 5: Hardware Installation

    MDO NOT APPLY POWER TO YOUR SYSTEM IF IT HAS BEEN DAMAGED ON THE CARD. MIn order to ensure your graphics card working correctly, please use official Gigabyte BIOS only Use none official gigabyte BIOS might cause problem on the graphics card. - 5 - Hardware Installation...

  • Page 6: Board Layout

    2.2. BOARD LAYOUT GV-R7500L (8Mx16 64MB DDRAM) TV-Out VGA Monitor C onnector (15pin) 7P in NTSC / PAL TV 4P in 4P in Projector AV Output 7P in NTSC / PAL TV TV -out S-VideoO utput VGA Monitor Projector C onnector...

  • Page 7: Hardware Installation

    2.3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION Installing Your Graphics card.. Now that you have prepared your computer, you are ready to install your graphics accelerator card. To install your graphics accelerator card: 1. Power off the computer and monitor, then disconnect the display cable from the back of your computer.
  • Page 8 AGP Slot 5. Replace the screw to fasten the card in place, and replace the computer cover. GV-R7500L G raphics card 6. Plug the display cable into your card; then turn on the computer and monitor. To TV or VCR To VGA MON ITOR You are now ready to proceed with the installation of the Graphics card driver.

  • Page 9: Software Installation

    When you insert the driver CD into your CD-ROM drive, you can see the AUTORUN window (if it does not show up, run "D:\setup.exe"). Then you can follow guides to setup your GV-R7500L driver (Please follow the subsection 3.1.3 "Step By Step Installation" to install the driver for your graphics accelerator.

  • Page 10: Directx Installation

    Note: For software MPEG support in Win98/98SE or WinME, you must DirectX first install. MMust be install DirectX 8.1 (or later) 1. Installation DirectX Driver Click "Install DirectX 8.1” Item. 2.Click "Yes" icon. 3.Click "Yes“ icon. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 10 -...
  • Page 11 4.Click "OK" item. Then the DirectX 8.1 installation is completed - 11 - Software Installation...

  • Page 12: Driver Installation

    The following is the step-by-step installation guide. Step 1: New Hardware Found After GV-R7500L is inserted into your computer at the first time, the windows will automatically detect a new hardware in the system and pop out a "New Hardware Found" message. Please select "Do not install a driver"...
  • Page 13 3.Click "NO“ icon. After the system has finished loading, insert the GV-R7500L driver CD disk into your CD-ROM, and then you can see the AUTORUN window. If it does not show up, please run "D:\setup.exe". Step 5: Driver Setup 1. Click "Install Display Driver(Radeon 7500 Series).
  • Page 14 3.Click "Yes". 4. Click "Finish" to restart computer. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 14 -...

  • Page 15: Utilities On Driver Cd

    3.1.4.Utilities on driver CD The utilities include Display Driver and V-Tuner utilities. Please browse the driver CD for detail. Other Utility (V-Tuner and Hydravision) Follow the setup that showing on the screen to install the Utility. A.Installing V-Tuner Utility Click "V-Tuner” Item. B.Installing Hydravision Utility Click "Hydravision Install”...

  • Page 16: Taskbar Icon

    You may click the "Display Properties" item, and then click Settings. Click "Advanced" after clickng Settings. Click the appropriate tab to change your display settings. Right click the icon. You can link to GBT website for updated information about the graphics card, latest drivers, and other information. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 16 -...
  • Page 17 Memory Clock) Min V-Tuner Display & Adjust Close V-Tuner Core Clock Display Core Clock Display Memory Clock Display & Adjust Memory Clock Link to the Websit of Gigabyte Help description Close V-Tuner To system Tray - 17 - Software Installation...
  • Page 18 VGA Info VGA Info lists the relevant information about your card. Color Adjust Color Adjust allows you to make color adjustments, such as brightness, contrast, and gamma values for each or all of RGB colors. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 18 -...
  • Page 19 After installation of the display drivers, you will find an ATI icon on the taskbar's status area. rol panel. Clicking this icon open the ATi cont 1.Rotate Screen 2.Using Single Display HYDRAVISION ™ HYDRAVISION and the Desktop Manager are activated whenever Windows starts.
  • Page 20 Remove MultiDesk system tray icon - This box removes or restores the MultiDesk system tray icon. ATI Logo - Click here to access the About dialog which provides software version information and a link to the ATI Technologies website. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 20 -...
  • Page 21 Load/Unload Desktop Manager - This button restores or removes the HydraVision Desktop Manager tracking program. Unloading the Desktop Manager returns display settings to Windows defaults. You should only select this option if you do not want to use any multiple monitor dialog box controls and window controls or hot keys.
  • Page 22 Enable Shadow support - Check this box to enable the Shadow support sliders. The Visibility slider sets the degree of visibility of the shadow. The Shadow slider sets how big a shadow is added to an application window or dialog. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 22 -...

  • Page 23: Property

    3.1.6.Display Property pages The screen shows the information of display adapter, color, the range of display area and the refresh rate. Setting(Resolutions and Color depth for windows) The Setting properties page allows you to adjust the Direct 3D settings You can move the slider to the change resolution.
  • Page 24 As the user moves closer to a 3D object the image quality should increase, requiring a higher quality texture of the same image. The base mipmap is the highest quality texture, and all subsequent mipmaps are smaller sized GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 24 -...
  • Page 25 textures of the same image. Moving the slider to the right selects a higher quality base mipmap, delivering the highest quality application experience. Moving the slider to the left selects a lower quality mipmap, delivering the highest application performance. n Wait for Vertical Sync This will lower the frame rate of full screen games but reduce the image tearing that can occur with the higher frame rate.
  • Page 26 As the user moves closer to a 3D object the image quality should increase, requiring a higher quality texture of the same image. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 26 -...
  • Page 27 The base mipmap is the highest quality texture, and all subsequent mipmaps are smaller sized textures of the same image. Moving the slider to the right selects a higher quality base mipmap, delivering the highest quality application experience. Moving the slider to the left selects a lower quality mipmap, delivering the highest application performance.
  • Page 28 (NOTE: Game Gamma is NOT supported in Windows NT4.0) n RGB Lock adjust the RGB sliders individually or adjust all three sliders at the same time. n Default resets the Game Gamma settings to the default values. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 28 -...

  • Page 29: Display Properties

    Display Properties: If you VGA card is equipped with a S-Video connector , you can use a second output device (e.q. a TV or a computer monitor) as part of your operating desktop extending your desktop to second device or copying your desktop on the second device. Select Display Type Enable /Disable”...
  • Page 30 Rotate 90° Left allows you to rotate the screen coun- terclockwise 90°. n Configure Hotkeys allows you to set the screen rotation by Hotkeys. n Defaults button allows you to reset the hotkey. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 30 -...

  • Page 31: Windows Nt 4.0 Driver Installation

    3.2. WINDOWS NT 4.0 DRIVER INSTALLATION Please make sure the Windows NT 4.0 have installed Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack version 6.0 (or later) before installing the GV-R7500L graphics accelerator driver. To install the GV-R7500L driver for Windows NT 1. Insert the INSTALLATION CD into your CD-ROM drive. If Windows ® runs the CD automatically.

  • Page 32: Windows 2000 Driver Installation

    ® later) before installing the graphics accelerator driver. With Windows 2000 running on your computer, you need to install the GV-R7500L driver to take ® advantage of the higher performance, resolutions, and special graphic features of the Graphics card. To ensure you install the latest driver, use the Installation CD that shipped with your Graphics card.

  • Page 33: Troubleshooting Tips

    Troubleshooting Tips 4.Troubleshooting Tips The following troubleshooting tips may help if you experience problems. Contact your dealer or GBT for more advanced troubleshooting information. Check that the card is seated properly in the AGP slot. Ensure the display cable is securely fastened to the card' s display connector. Make sure that the monitor and computer are plugged in and receiving power.

  • Page 34: Appendix

    2. Restart your PC in MS-DOS mode (This function only for Windows 95 or Windows 98, If your OS is Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP, please use the bootable disk to MS-DOS mode) GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 34 -...
  • Page 35 3. Change the command path to the file location C:\> or A:\> 4. Reflash BIOS command as below : C:\> atiflash -p 0 <filename> 5. Reboot your PC when it's done. - 35 - Appendix...

  • Page 36: Resolutions And Color Depth Table

    800x600 46.9 49.5 53.7 56.3 56.8 60.0 63.6 68.1 77.1 83.9 105.4 116.4 135.0 149.0 48.4 65.0 56.5 75.0 57.6 78.4 1024x768 60.0 78.8 68.7 94.5 72.8 100.1 81.4 113.3 . To be continued.. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 36 -...
  • Page 37 DDisplay Refresh Hor. Pixel Color Depth (bpp) Screen Rate Scan Clock 8bpp(256 color) 16bpp(65K color) 32bpp(16.7M) Resolution (Hz) (KHz) (Mhz) Standard mode High mode True mode 98.7 139.0 116.6 164.2 125.7 176.9 1024x768 134.8 192.0 172.8 246.1 38.0 56.0 41.7 62.1 53.7 81.6...
  • Page 38 283.5 1600x1024 76 81.4 178.2 64.2 138.4 71.9 155.3 75.0 162.0 81.3 175.5 82.2 178.9 1600x1200 70 87.5 189.0 90.0 195.8 93.8 202.5 95.5 209.3 106.3 229.5 116.2 256.5 127.2 280.8 To be continued.. GV-R7500L Graphics Accelerator - 38 -...
  • Page 39 DDisplay Refresh Hor. Pixel Color Depth (bpp) Screen Rate Scan Clock 8bpp(256 color) 16bpp(65K color) 32bpp(16.7M) Resolution (Hz) (KHz) (Mhz) Standard mode High mode True mode 1600x1280 86.52 116.2 256.5 83.8 205.2 1792x1344 75 106.3 261.0 119.7 294.9 89.5 219.9 1800x1440 70 104.9 259.2...
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