Gigabyte GV-R9500 User Manual
Gigabyte GV-R9500 User Manual

Gigabyte GV-R9500 User Manual

Radeon 9500 graphics accelerator

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Declaration of Conformity

We, Manufacturer/Importer
G.B.T. Technology Träding GMbH
Ausschlager Weg 41, 1F, 20537 Hamburg, Germany
declare that the product
( description of the apparatus, system, installation to which it refers)
3D Graphics Accelerator
is in conformity with
(reference to the specification under which conformity is declared)
in accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive
The manufacturer also declares the conformity of above mentioned product
with the actual required safety standards in accordance with LVD 73/23 EEC
(full address)
GV-R9500
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EN 50081-1
EN 50082-1
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Safety for information technology equipment
including electrical bussiness equipment
o EN 50091-1
General and Safety requirements for
uninterruptible power systems (UPS)
Manufacturer/Importer
Date : Nov. 30, 2002
Disturbances in supply systems cause
by household appliances and similar
electrical equipment "Harmonics"
Disturbances in supply systems cause
by household appliances and similar
electrical equipment "Voltage fluctuations"
Generic emission standard Part 1:
Residual commercial and light industry
Generic immunity standard Part 1:
Residual commercial and light industry
Generic emission standard Part 2:
Industrial environment
Generic emission standard Part 2:
Industrial environment
lmmunity requirements for household
appliances tools and similar apparatus
EMC requirements for uninterruptible
power systems (UPS)
Timmy Huang
Signature:
Name:
Timmy Huang

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  • Page 1: Declaration Of Conformity

    Ausschlager Weg 41, 1F, 20537 Hamburg, Germany declare that the product ( description of the apparatus, system, installation to which it refers) 3D Graphics Accelerator GV-R9500 is in conformity with (reference to the specification under which conformity is declared) in accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive...
  • Page 2 (818) 854-9338/ (818) 854-9339 hereby declares that the product Product Name: 3D Graphics Accelerator Model Number: GV-R9500 Conforms to the following specifications: FCC Part 15, Subpart B, Section 15.107(a) and Section 15.109 (a),Class B Digital Device Supplementary Information: This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is...
  • Page 3 GV-R9500 Series Radeon 9500 Graphics Accelerator USER'S MANUAL Rev. 103 12MD-R9500-103...
  • Page 4 Corporation and other rights owners. Use of this copyright protection technology must be authorized by 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. Dec. 20, 2002 Taipei, Taiwan GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 2 -...
  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ................. 4 1.1. PREFACE ....................4 1.2. KEY FEATURES ..................4 2. HARDWARE INSTALLATION .............. 5 2.1. UNPACKING ....................5 2.2. BOARD LAYOUT ..................6 2.3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ..............8 3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ............10 ®...
  • Page 6: Introduction

    1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. PREFACE GV-R9500 Series features 4-pipeline architecture for twice the rendering power, 64MB/ ™ 128MB(C3) of memory to accelerate latest 3D games and new SMARTSHADER ® ® technology supporting DirectX 9.0 and the latest OpenGL functionality to give developers the freedom to create more complicated and realistic visual effects than ever before.
  • Page 7: Hardware Installation

    DO NOT APPLY POWER TO YOUR SYSTEM IF IT HAS BEEN DAMAGED ON THE CARD. In 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 -...
  • Page 8: Board Layout

    2.2. BOARD LAYOUT 1) GV-R9500 (64MB DDR) VGA Monitor Connector (15pin) TV-Out DVI Connector Type A VGA Monitor Connector (15pin) TV-Out DVI Connector Type B GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 6 -...
  • Page 9 2) GV-R9500-C3 (128MB DDR) VGA Monitor Connector (15pin) TV-Out DVI Connector VGA Output Analog Monitor Analog LCD Monitor VGA Monitor Connector (15pin) AV Output NTSC / PAL TV TV-out S-VideoOutput Projector DVI Output DVI Connector Digital LCD Monitor DVI-I to D-sub...
  • Page 10: Hardware Installation

    3. Remove any existing graphics card from your computer. Or, if your computer has any on-board graphics capability, you may need to disable it on the motherboard. For more information, see you computer documentation. GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 8 -...
  • Page 11 After installation, please connect the power cable to your GV-R9500 Series graphics card, or system will not boot. 6. Plug the display cable into your card; then turn on the computer and monitor.If your...
  • Page 12: 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-R9500 Series driver (Please follow the subsection 3.1.3 "Step By Step Installation" to install the driver for your GV-R9500 Series graphics accelerator.
  • Page 13: Directx Installation

    3.1.2. DirectX Installation Install Microsoft DirectX 8.1(or later version) to enable 3D hardware acceleration support ® ® ® for Windows 98/98SE/ Windows 2000 or Windows ME to achieve better 3D performence. ® ® Note: For software MPEG support in Windows 98/ 98SE/ Windows 2000 or Windows...
  • Page 14 4.Click "OK" item. Then the DirectX 8.1 installation is completed. GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 12 -...
  • Page 15: Driver Installation

    The following is the step-by-step installation guide. Step 1: New Hardware Found After GV-R9500 Series 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"...
  • Page 16 3..Click "No" icon. After the system has finished loading, insert the GV-R9500 Series 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 (Pictures below are shown in Windows XP) 1.
  • Page 17 3.Click "Yes". 4. Click "Express" or "Custom" icon. 5. Click "Finish" to restart computer. - 15 - Software Installation...
  • Page 18: Utilities On Driver Cd

    The utilities include Display Driver and V-Tuner utilities. Please follow the steps. Install V-Tuner : 1. Click "V-Tuner" item. 2.Click "Next". 3. Enter your name and company. 4. Click "Finish" to restart computer. GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 16 -...
  • Page 19 Install Hydravision : 1. Click "Hydravision Install" item. 2.Click "Next". 3.Click "Yes". 4.Click "Next". - 17 - Software Installation...
  • Page 20 5.Click "Next". 6. Click "Finish" to restart computer. GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 18 -...
  • Page 21: Taskbar Icon

    3.1.5. Taskbar Icon After installation of the display drivers, you will find an GBT icon on the taskbar's status area. Right-clicking this icon opens the GBT control panel, showing a menu composed of shortcute of the graphics card's enhanced and other functions. You may click the "Display Properties"...
  • Page 22 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 GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 20 -...
  • Page 23 VGA Information 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. - 21 - Software Installation...
  • Page 24 A RADEON 9500 with only one display output can still take advantage of the ™ many features of HYDRAVISION ™ ® HYDRAVISION installation enables the Desktop Manager and creates a Windows ™ program group for HYDRAVISION display management software. GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 22 -...
  • Page 25: Display Properties

    3.1.6. Display Properties pages The screen shows the information of display adapter, color, the range of display area and the refresh rate. Settings (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 26 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-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 24 -...
  • Page 27 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. 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 28 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-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 26 -...
  • Page 29 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. 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 30 (NOTE: Game Gamma is NOT supported in Windows NT4.0) RGB Lock adjust the RGB sliders individually or adjust all three sliders at the same time. Default resets the Game Gamma settings to the default values. GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 28 -...
  • Page 31 Connecting your graphics card to a TV or VCR To connect your GV-R9500/GV-R9500 PRO graphics card to a TV (or VCR), use an S-Video cable. However, most TVs (and VCRs) have a Composite video input, in which case you can use the supplied S-Video-to-Composite video adapter.
  • Page 32 Hue allows you to adjust the pureness or tint of the red, green and blue components of the color. Gamma allows you to adjust the overall intensity of the video image. Defaults button allows you to reset the Overlay settings to default values. GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 30 -...
  • Page 33 Rotation Properties: The Rotation Properties is used to rotate the screen. If your monitor is capable of operating in either Landscape or Portrait mode, you can adjust the screen by this properties. Rotation Standard Landscape allows you to set the screen at standard landscape.
  • Page 34: Windows 2000 Driver Installation

    ® With Windows 2000 running on your computer, you need to install the GV-R9500/GV- R9500 PRO 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 GV-R9500 Series Graphics card.
  • Page 35: 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 that 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 36: Appendix

    2. Restart your PC in MS-DOS mode ® ® (This function only for Windows 95 or Windows 98 AIf your OS is Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP. Aplease use the bootable disk to MS-DOS mode) GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 34 -...
  • Page 37 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 38: Resolutions And Color Depth Table

    Screen Rate 8bpp(256 color) 16bpp(65K color) 32bpp(16.7M) Resolution (Hz) Standard mode High mode True mode 640 x 480 800 x 600 (interlaced) (interlaced) (interlaced) 1024 x 768 (interlaced) (interlaced) (interlaced) To be continued... GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 36 -...
  • Page 39 Display Refresh Color Depth (bpp) Screen Rate 8bpp(256 color) 16bpp(65K color) 32bpp(16.7M) Resolution (Hz) Standard mode High mode True mode 1152 x 864 (interlaced) (interlaced) (interlaced) (interlaced) (interlaced) (interlaced) 1280 x 768 1280 x 960 1280 x 1024 (interlaced) (interlaced) (interlaced) (interlaced) (interlaced)
  • Page 40 1792 x 1344 1800 x 1440 1856 x 1392 1920 x 1080 1920 x 1200 1920 x 1440 2048 x 1536 * Lower maximum refresh rates at some resolutions when using lower bandwidth memory configuration. GV-R9500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 38 -...

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