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Gigabyte GV-R96X256V Manual

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  • Page 1 VGA Card GV-R96X256V Jan. 20, 2004...
  • Page 2 VGA Card GV-R96X256V Jan. 20, 2004...
  • Page 3 GV-R96X256V Radeon 9600 XT Graphics Accelerator USER'S MANUAL ¤ ¤ ¤ å ¨ Ï ¥ Î ¤ â ¥ U Rev. 101 12MD-R96X256V-101...
  • 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. GV-R96X256V 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 ..............7 3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION .............. 9 3.1.

  • Page 6: Introduction

    ® the freedom to create more complicated and realistic visual effects than ever before. GV-R96X256V supports the new AGP 8X standard, which allows large volumes of texture and vertex data to be transferred faster from system memory to the chip.

  • 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

    DVI-I to D-Sub Connector Analog LCD Monitor DVI-I Connector VGA Output S-Video Input VIVO NTSC / PAL TV AV Input VGA Monitor AV Output Connector (15pin) S-Video Output Projector VGA Output Analog Monitor Analog LCD Monitor GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 6 -...

  • Page 9: 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 10 9 Pin (VIVO) To VGA Monitor To Flat Panel Display You are now ready to proceed with the installation of the graphics card driver. For detailed instructions, select your operating system from the list below. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 8 -...

  • Page 11: Software Installation

    3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION In this manual, we assume that your CD-ROM Drive letter to be Drive D: The installation of Win 98/98SE / Win 2000 / Win ME / Win XP drivers is very simple. ® ® ® ® 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").

  • Page 12: Directx Installation

    98/ 98SE/ Windows 2000/ Windows ® ® ® ME or Windows XP, you must install DirectX 9(or later version) first. ® 1. Install DirectX Driver: Click "Install DirectX 9" Item. 2.Click "Next" icon. 3.Click "Next" icon. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 10 -...
  • Page 13 4.Click "Finish" item. Then the DirectX 9 installation is completed. - 11 - Software Installation...

  • Page 14: Driver Installation

    At this time, system will ask for your Windows CD in order to complete the VGA driver installation. If you don't have the CD, you can press C:\Windows\System directory. Step 4: System Setting Change 2.Click "Finish" button. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 12 -...
  • Page 15 3.Click "No" button. After the system has finished loading, insert the 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 16 3.Click "Yes". 4. Click "Express" or "Custom" icon. 5. Click "Finish" to restart computer. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 14 -...

  • Page 17: Utilities On Driver Cd

    3.1.4. 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. - 15 - Software Installation...
  • Page 18 Install Hydravision : 1. Click "Hydravision Install" item. 2.Click "Next". 3.Click "Yes". 4.Click "Next". GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 16 -...
  • Page 19 5.Click "Next". 6. Click "Finish" to restart computer. - 17 - Software Installation...

  • Page 20: Taskbar Icon

    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-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 18 -...
  • Page 21 (Core Clock and 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 Website of Gigabyte Help Description Close V-Tuner to System Tray - 19 - Software Installation...
  • Page 22 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. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 20 -...
  • Page 23 After installation of the display drivers, you will find an ATi icon on the taskbar's status area. Clicking this icon open the ATi control panel. 2.Using Single Display HYDRAVISION ™ HYDRAVISION and the Desktop Manager are activated whenever Windows starts. ™...

  • Page 24: Display Properties

    Disable quick resolution feature is accessible by left-clicking the ATI icon in the taskbar. Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolution displays enables or disables to reduce the DVI frequency when using high-resolution. Alternate DVI operational mode enables or disables alternate DVI operational mode. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 22 -...
  • Page 25 VPU Recover Properties: The VPU Recover Properties allows the ATI display driver to reset the graphics accelerator when it stops responding to commands from the display driver. Using VPU Recover the display driver will, in most cases, be able to reset the graphics accelerator without requiring a system restart.
  • Page 26 Selecting this decides whether your application should use high quality or high performance textures. Moving the slider to the right delivers the highest quality experience. Moving the slider to the left emphasizes a high performance solution while still providing good visuals. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 24 -...
  • Page 27 Mipmap Detail Level slider This will allow you to choose the texture quality of the mipmaps the application will use. Mipmaps are a collection of different sized textures of the same image. As the user moves closer to a 3D object the image quality should increase, requiring a higher quality texture of the same image.
  • Page 28 Selecting this decides whether your application should use high quality or high performance textures. Moving the slider to the right delivers the highest quality experience. Moving the slider to the left emphasizes a high performance solution while still providing good visuals. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 26 -...
  • Page 29 Mipmap Detail Level slider This will allow you to choose the texture quality of the mipmaps the application will use. Mipmaps are a collection of different sized textures of the same image. As the user moves closer to a 3D object the image quality should increase, requiring a higher quality texture of the same image.
  • Page 30 Direct 3D and OpenGL games played in fullscreen mode. (NOTE: Game Gamma is NOT supported in Windows NT4.0) Default resets the desktop brightness and color settings to the default values. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 28 -...
  • Page 31 Display Properties: If your 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 "Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor"...
  • Page 32 Defaults button allows you to reset the Overlay settings to default values. Clone mode options button allows overlay settings are only available in dual-controller Clone mode, and not single-display or extended desktop configurations. GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 30 -...

  • Page 33: Win ® 98/98Se / Win ® 2000 / Win ® Me Driver Installation

    3.3. BIOS FLASH UTILITY BIOS update procedure: Note: Please download the newest BIOS from our website (www.gigabyte.com.tw) or contact your local dealer for the file. If you want to realize the BIOS flash information, please refer to detail on subsection 5.1.

  • Page 34: Troubleshooting Tips

    For more assistance, use the Troubleshooting Guide located in the Windows Help ® or contact your computer manufacturer. If necessary, adjust your monitor's setting by monitor's adjust panel to make the screen looks focused, crisp, and sharp. (Please refer to the monitor’s manual.) GV-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 32 -...

  • Page 35: Appendix

    5. APPENDIX 5.1. How to reflash the BIOS We use GV-AR64SH VGA card and Atiflash BIOS flash utility as example. How to reflash the BIOS for your graphics card? 1. Extract the Zip file to the drive C: or A: 2.

  • Page 36: Resolutions And Color Depth Table (In Windows ® Xp)

    5.2. Resolutions and Color Depth Table (In Windows ® GV-R96X256V 2D Single Display Modes Display Refresh Color Depth (bpp) 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...
  • Page 37 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 38 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-R96X256V Graphics Accelerator - 36 -...
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