Installing the Software from the SPEA Media-Gallery CD It is possible that you have received the SPEA software on CD rather than on diskette. If this is the case, then please note that the descriptions in this manual should be changed accordingly. For example, the instructions "Put the disk 'Drivers for Windows' in drive A:"...
Typical System Configuration......................10 Preparing your Computer ........................11 Installing the SPEA Board ........................11 Additional Instructions .........................12 After Installing the SPEA Board ......................12 PART 3 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION ............13 Windows 3.1x (BigWin Driver)........................14 SPEA V7SETUP ..........................14 Do you want to playback MPEG files? ....................15 MediaStation ............................16...
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Technical Data ............................27 V7-MERCURY P-64 V (PCI) Jumpers....................27 2 or 4 MB VRAM? ...........................27 Upgrading the VRAM to 4 MB.........................27 Memory Addresses of the V7-MERCURY P-64 V ..................28 Video Modes ............................28 VGA Output Connector ...........................29 VESA-Compatible Feature Connector....................29 APPENDIX C TROUBLESHOOTING ....................30 General Considerations ..........................30...
6. Install your SPEA graphics board in a free extension slot. 7. Reassemble your PC, connect peripheral equipment and reconnect the power cable. 8. Switch on your monitor first, then the computer. 9. At the DOS prompt insert the SPEA disk 'Utilities' and start the software installation with: INSTALL Problems? In the unlikely event of problems ...
B:. Delivery Scope Checklist Your SPEA package should contain the following items: - 1x V7-MERCURY P-64 V - the following 3.5" disks (or 1 SPEA Media Gallery CD): 1x 'Utilities' 1x 'Drivers for OS/2' 1x 'SPEA Win NT drivers'...
SHOW README.ENG Warranty You have a 3 year warranty for your SPEA graphics card. To ensure your warranty, it is necessary that you keep the invoice of the graphics card. If your graphics card is damaged, contact your local retailer first.
Introduction applications as well as useful utilities are supplied with your board. Additional software Your SPEA board is a high-resolution, VGA, (drivers for specific applications) are also VESA and S-VGA compatible graphics available, but not a part of the standard delivery accelerator specially designed to speed up scope.
(horizontal and vertical refresh rate, possible resolutions). 1. Hold the SPEA card on its edges only. Don't touch edge connectors or exposed circuitry. If you're using COM 4 2. Leave the SPEA card in the anti-static protective bag until ready to install it in your If you are using COM 4, e.g.
Preparing your Computer Installing the SPEA Board The SPEA card is installed in an expansion slot Please note, that the applications you want corresponding to the bus type (VL local bus or to install SPEA drivers for have to be PCI bus).
If your system does NOT boot as it should, The SPEA board has been designed to 'plug & check again to see that the installation play' without any modifications being made to instructions were properly followed, or refer to the default switch or jumper settings.
VGA (640 x 480, 16 colors) on your system Before you start to configure the software prior to using the SPEA software. It is a applications, you may wish to change the good idea to do this before removing an...
DOS applications are made using the program Windows 3.1x (BigWin Driver) SPTUNE - see Index). Warning! The SPEA board has to be installed in your system before you can install the Windows drivers. Installation of the Windows driver 1. The basic installation with the SPEA disk...
How is SPEA V7SETUP used? Double click on the SPEA V7 icon, the dialog box then will appear. Configure your system keeping the specifications of your monitor in mind. Warning! You can damage your monitor if you select a refresh rate that is too high for it! Read your monitor manual refresh rate information.
When you click on the MediaStation icon in the SPEA program group, the remote control appears on the screen. Click on the power button on the top left side of the remote control to switch on the TV window on the screen.
(65.536 colors) or TrueColor (16.7 million colors) mode to playback MPEG and AVI files. To make sure this is the case, click on the V7SETUP icon in the SPEA group and select an according mode. We've kept the following descriptions very brief as we intend to integrate multimedia features as they come onto the market.
It is possible to capture a single frame of an control using the left mouse button! AVI, MPEG or other playable file in two ways:. With SPEA's MediaStation Requirement: Video In is active on the TV window. 1. Click on the Pause button when the frame you want to capture appears on the TV.
SPEA WinTools looks like a TV frame. SPEA offers its customers various tools which can be used to simplify or enhance the use of Windows. SPEAenergy (DPMS) What is SPEAenergy? SPEAenergy is a power management utility (DPMS) for Windows.
SPEAdometer What is SPEAdometer? SPEAdometer can be used to determine the maximum clock rate for your graphics processor, according to the unique environment of your PC. Production tolerances mean that the chips on your board could be driven at a higher frequency than the 70 ns stamped on the components.
Windows applications in some aspects. The program is automatically installed in connection with the V7SETUP. You will find it in the SPEA program group. To start the program, double click on the SPEAview icon.
Windows NT (BigWinNT Driver) AutoCAD 12 & 13 AutoCAD for Windows The Windows NT driver installation is executed via the program SPEA V7SETNT. SPEA's BigFocus driver (see separate 1. Take care that the standard VGA driver or manual) is currently available for AutoCAD an elder BigWinNT driver is selected.
SPEA directory (VESA modes will be Compuserve). Please read the section about loaded residently into your Pcs memory). the SPEA Expert Line on the last pages in this 2. Select 'SVGA > VESA 1.2 manual. compatible' when configuring the display Driver Selection via USCONFIG preferences.
'Drivers for Windows' handy too as you will To see a list of the video modes for your need it during this installation. primary board change to your SPEA\GDC directory and enter: Warning! Before you begin with the installation close any...
The optimal Who is SPEAtune intended for? refresh rate is selected automatically If you use a SPEA graphics board and you do (shown in yellow), it depends on the monitor not have a SPEA monitor, you can use...
(See table Standard VGA modes in the file system appears. BIOS.TXT of the Superdisk or in your SPEA To continue the program, press the space bar. directory). Other possible emulations are EGA, You receive about 15 different screen displays CGA, and MDA.
You have the possibility to upgrade the TrueColor (16.7 mill. simultaneous colors) memory of the V7-MERCURY P-64 V from 2 up to 1280 x 1024, 80 Hz n.i. (4 MB boards MB VRAM to 4 MB VRAM. To do this, read the only) following section.
Important! In contrast to an ISA or VL bus graphics board, the PCI version of the V7-MERCURY P-64 V requires double the amount of memory (64 kB instead of 32 kB Video ROM) during the boot procedure. It may occur that memory areas are occupied which are also addressed by other devices.
VGA Output Connector VESA-Compatible Feature Connector Function The auxiliary VESA-compatible connector can Green be used to allow pass-through VGA to a Blue coprocessor card that does not directly support Not used VGA. ground Red Return (ground) Pin Function Pin Function Green Return (ground) Ground Pixel Data 0...
The system does not work properly, General Considerations some problems occurred during installation. Make sure the SPEA board is firmly seated in its expansion slot, and that it is not touching The system beeps when booting or the other boards in your system.
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The SPEA Utilities are not available. Add the following entry to the SYSTEM.INI file under the section The SPEA Utilities are packed (and not [CAR1K.DRV]: visible) on the SPEA Superdisk. CHIPSYNC=1 To use them you have to install them via...
2. Open a file that you want to play active. 3. Pick the 'Device' menu 4. If the 'SPEA MPEG + VideoCD ...' The Test button is only active with the option is not listed, the driver has not been actual settings.
9000 rules. A list of CD ROM drives tested pleasing, and be less prone to the above by SPEA can be found in the README file problems. in the SPEA directory. Note:...
in this format if you wish to continue to process Appendix D them later under Windows. Glossary Booting/Booting Up Starting the computer. There are two types. Warm Booting is accomplished by Analog Display simultaneously pressing the CTRL/ALT/DEL A monitor that uses variable color control keys and can occur only when the computer is voltages to display a very large number of running.
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(red, green, blue) monitor, referring to the Driver signals needed to drive it. Part of a software program that interacts with a particular piece of equipment in your computer Color Palette Conversion system (i.e. video boards, printers, and Conversion of video data from the YUV color keyboards).
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Fixed Frequency Monitor Hexadecimal Notation An analog monitor which can only sync to a A base-16 numbering system that uses very narrow range of scan frequencies. numbers and letters. The hexadecimal sequence begins: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F, then 10, 11 etc.
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up to 100:1 (original file size to compressed file help consumers when purchasing hardware size). A new feature of this standard is that it is and software (similar to the VHS symbol used device-independant. These files can be in the video product market). replayed using any application that supports this format.
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colors is created. It is not possible to transform Palette an existing file into an RGB8 color file type. A selection of colors from which to choose. Your board provides as many as 16.7 million RGB Color Model simultaneous colors from a palette of 16.7 million.
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color with a high saturation value is optically very intensive. A color with a low saturation Vertical Frequency value appears weak (i.e. with less color The rate at which the monitor screen is content). refreshed. Usually measured in hertz (Hz). Scaling Transformation of image data to different sizes.
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Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) industry-wide consortium organized to standardize graphic modes. Your board supports the VESA standards. Video Keying This term refers to the process of mixing two video and computer graphics signals. YUV Color Palette The image information of individual frames is comprised of a brightness part and 2 color parts.
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