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- Page 1 Copyright and Warranty Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. No warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, is made with respect to the quality, accuracy or fitness for any particular part of this document.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600 Graphics Accelerator Index CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION............1-1 1-1..................1-1 EATURES 1-2................1-2 PECIFICATIONS 1-3..............1-3 ULTIPLE ONITORS 1-4............... 1-5 ISPLAY ODES ABLE CHAPTER 2. HARDWARE SETUP..........2-1 2-1..............2-1 NSTALLATION New Systems: ................2-1 Systems with Existing VGA Card: .......... -
Page 4: Siluro Gf4 Ti4400/Ti4600
TV Output:................4-17 Color Correction: ..............4-18 Screen Adjustment:..............4-19 Display Timing: ................ 4-19 4-2. DVD................4-20 ILURO 4-3. X ................... 4-23 IRECT 4-4................4-24 RAPHIC 4-5................4-28 OLOR 4-6..............4-33 ISPLAY 4-7. BIOS F ............4-35 LASHING TILITY APPENDIX A. -
Page 5: Chapter 1. Introduction
Processor (HDVP) and outstanding TV-Out quality, it enables a wide range of applications and turns your desktop into a fully functionally DVD player and big-screen gaming. With this ABIT Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600 Graphics Card, you will not only see but also experience dynamic and realistic 3D worlds. User’s Manual... -
Page 6: Specifications
Chapter 1 1-2. Specifications Powered by the world’s most powerful NVIDIA GeForce4™ Ti4400/Ti4600 GPU working at 275MHz/300MHz respectively with 256-bit Graphics Core On board 128 MB DDR SDRAM working on effective memory clock rate 550MHz/650MHz with 8.8GB/sec. or 10.4 GB/sec. memory bandwidth ™... -
Page 7: Multiple Monitors
Introduction 1-3. Multiple Monitors Your Siluro GF4 Ti Series provide dual display functionality and TV-out from a single video card. This technology changes the way you view your PC, TV, and video graphics. Just a single application can span to all monitors, or many applications can occupy their own specific monitor. - Page 8 Chapter 1 Connection by connectors on Siluro GF4 Ti Series Display Configurations Display Configuration Connector(s) Used CRT monitor -15-pin VGA Connector -24-pin DVI-I Connector (with DVI-I to VGA Adapter) DFP monitor -24-pin DVI-I Connector -S-Video Connector or Composite CRT monitor + TV -15-pin VGA Connector + S-Video Connector or Composite DFP monitor + TV...
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Page 9: Display Modes Table
Introduction 1-4. Display Modes Table This display mode table is for your reference only. The display mode will differ depending on your specific monitor, and so the resulting display may not be identical to this table. Resolution Colors Vertical Refresh Rate 8/16/32 bits 60Hz to 240Hz 640 x 480... - Page 10 Chapter 1 Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600...
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Page 11: Chapter 2. Hardware Setup
Hardware Setup Chapter 2. Hardware Setup 2-1. Card Installation This graphics card can only be installed in a motherboard with AGP slot. Please handle this card with care and make sure to unplug the power supply of your system before installation. New Systems: Unplug all power cords of your computer. -
Page 12: Siluro Gf4 Ti4400/Ti4600 Connection
Chapter 2 2-2. Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600 Connection Package List: Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator User's Manual ® Installation CD including Driver, SiluroDVD, 3Deep and True Internet ® Color Mini Din to S-Video and RCA adapter S-Video extended cable Composite (RCA) cable DVI-I to VGA Adapter Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600... -
Page 13: Chapter 3. Software Setup
The contents of the Installation CD that came with this card are subject to change at any time without notice. The latest driver for this board is also downloadable from our WEB site at http://www.abit.com.tw. 3-1. Windows 98/ME Auto Setup: Start Windows. - Page 14 Chapter 3 Click “Yes” if you want to install the DirectX, and then follow on-screen instruction to complete the setup. Click “No” if you don’t want to install the DirectX, and then restart the computer. Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600...
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Page 15: Windows 2000
Software Setup 3-2. Windows 2000 Plug and Play Setup: Start Windows. When Windows detects your graphics card, the Found New Hardware Wizard dialog box appears. Click “Next>”. Select “Search for a suitable driver device [recommended]”, then click “Next>”. Select “Specify a location”, and then click “Next>”. - Page 16 Chapter 3 Insert the Installation CD into CD-ROM drive. “Browse...” button to locate the driver, type “E:\Driver\Win2KXP” specify the path. E: is the CD-ROM drive. Click “OK” to continue. The wizard has found the driver for this device. Click “Next>” to continue.
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Page 17: Auto Setup
Software Setup Auto Setup: Start Windows. Insert the Installation CD into CD-ROM drive, it should execute the installation program automatically. not, double-click the execution file at the main directory of this Installation CD to enter the installation menu. Click “Driver Install”. The welcome screen appears, click “Next>”... - Page 18 Chapter 3 Click “Yes” if you want to install DirectX, and then follow the on-screen instruction to complete the setup. Click “No” if you don’t want to install DirectX, and then restart the computer. Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600...
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Page 19: Windows Xp
Software Setup 3-3. Windows XP Plug and Play Setup: Start Windows When Windows detects your Siluro Ti4400/Ti4600 graphics card, the Found New Hardware Wizard dialog box appears. Click “Next>”. Select "Search for the best driver in these locations", use the "Browse"... - Page 20 Chapter 3 Click “Finish” to complete the installation. Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600...
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Page 21: Auto Setup
Software Setup Auto Setup: Start Windows. Insert the Installation CD into CD-ROM drive, it should execute the installation program automatically. If not, execute the execution file at the main directory of this Installation Disk. After been executed, the setup screen appears. - Page 22 3-10 Chapter 3 If you want Installation to restart your computer then select "Yes, I want to restart my click computer now." "Finish", If not, Please select "No, will restart computer later." and then click "Finish". You have to manually restart the computer later for the driver take...
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Page 23: Chapter 4. Utility Setup
Adapter, Monitor, Performance, Color Management, Display Position, and nView functions. To use the Windows Display Properties, right-click the ABIT Display Tray Icon on the taskbar’s status area and then click Windows Display Properties to enter, or you may right-click the Windows 98/ME/2000/XP desktop, click “Properties”... - Page 24 Chapter 4 Advanced: Click this button to open the Properties dialog box for the video adapter that appears in Display. General Font Size: Displays the current font size for the selected monitor. To use a different font size, click the arrow, and then click the font size you want.
- Page 25 Utility Setup Adapter This tab shows what type of display adapter you are currently using. To install the software for a new display adapter, click “Change”. Change: Click to install the software for a new display adapter. Refresh rate: Click this to change the refresh rate for your monitor.
- Page 26 Chapter 4 Energy Star is a program administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce the amount of power used by personal computers and peripherals. The Energy Star emblem does not represent EPA endorsement of any product or service. If the information on your screen appears garbled or otherwise irregular when your power management screen saver appears, click to clear this check box.
- Page 27 Utility Setup Performance Hardware acceleration: Specifies degree acceleration you want for your graphics hardware. Full acceleration is the fastest and is recommended most computers. If your computer is having problems and you suspect graphics acceleration to be the cause, use the highest setting at which you do not have problems.
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Page 28: Antialiasing Settings
Chapter 4 GeFoece4 Ti 4400 Display Adapter Information: This information details the hardware aspects of the currently selected graphics adapter. Driver Version Information: This table is a list of files and associated version information currently your NVIDIA-based graphics adapter. Additional Properties button: Click access additional... -
Page 29: Direct3D Settings
Utility Setup Quincunx Antialiasing (tm): This option enables a patented antialiasing technique available in the GeForce GPU family. Quincunx antialiasing offers the quality of the slower, 4x antialiasing mode at nearly the performance of the faster, 2x mode. 4x: This option will enable antialiasing using the 4x mode. It offers the highest possible image quality at the expense of some performance in 3D applications. -
Page 30: Opengl Settings
Chapter 4 OpenGL Settings: Enable buffer region extension: Allows the drivers to use the OpenGL extension GL_KTX_buffer_region. This increase application performance in 3D modeling applications that support this extension. Allow the dual planes extension to use local video memory: Allows the use of local video memory when GL_KTX_buffer_region... - Page 31 Utility Setup regardless of your desktop settings. Buffer flipping mode: This option determines the buffer flipping mode for full-screen OpenGL applications. You can select from the block transfer method, the page flip method or auto-select. Auto-select allows the driver to determine the best method based on your hardware configuration.
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Page 32: Overlay Controls
4-10 Chapter 4 Overlay Controls: Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation: Use these controls to adjust the quality of video or DVD playback on your monitor. You can independently control the brightness, contrast, hue and saturation to achieve optimal image quality when playing back videos or DVD movies on your computer. -
Page 33: Desktop Utilities
Utility Setup 4-11 Desktop Utilities: Display the QuickTweak icon in the taskbar: This option adds the QuickTweak icon Windows taskbar, allowing you to apply any of the custom Direct3D, OpenGL color settings “on the fly” from a convenient popup menu. The menu also contains items for restoring default settings and accessing the Display Properties... -
Page 34: For Windows 98/Me
For Windows 98/ME: nView Standard Mode (nView disabled): Use this mode if you have only one display device attached to your ABIT graphics adapter. nView Clone Mode: This mode outputs an exact copy of the primary display on the secondary device. - Page 35 Utility Setup 4-13 Display: Displays all current nView displays. If more than one device is connected and you have switched to a mode other than Standard, you select which display is the current display. You can also click on the monitor graphic in the control directly above to select it as the current display.
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Page 36: For Windows 2000/Xp
4-14 Chapter 4 For Windows 2000/XP: The nView functions in Windows 2000/XP are almost the same as in Windows 98/ME except the Extended Desktop Mode is divided into two separate controls: Horizontal Span and Vertical Span. Standard Mode (nView disabled): Use this mode if you have only one display device attached to your graphics adapter. - Page 37 Utility Setup 4-15 Horizontal Span: This mode allows extend Windows desktop across two display devices horizontally. In this mode the two displays combine to form a wide, spanned display surface, which is useful when viewing items that are wider then a single display. Vertical Span: This mode allows you to extend the Windows desktop...
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Page 38: Device Selection
4-16 Chapter 4 Device Settings Device Selection: In the Extended Desktop Mode, the nView tab in the Advanced tab menu is replaced by two tabs: Device Selection and Color Correction. This tab allows you to select the output display device (analog monitor, digital flat panel or TV, depending on which devices your display adapter supports). -
Page 39: Tv Output
Utility Setup 4-17 TV Output: Screen Positioning: Use the arrow buttons to adjust the position of the desktop on the Note: If picture becomes scrambled or goes blank due to over-adjustment, simply wait 10 seconds. The picture will automatically return to its default position. -
Page 40: Color Correction
4-18 Chapter 4 Color Correction: Digital Digital Vibrance: Vibrance gives more control over color separation intensity, resulting brighter cleaner images in all of your applications. Active Color Channel: Allows you to select the color channel controlled by the sliders. You can adjust red, green blue... -
Page 41: Display Timing
Utility Setup 4-19 Screen Adjustment: Use the arrow buttons to adjust the position of the desktop on your monitor. Display Timing: This tab allows you to select your monitor timing mode: Auto-Detect allows Windows to receive proper timing information directly from the monitor itself. -
Page 42: Silurodvd
4-20 Chapter 4 4-2. SiluroDVD The SiluroDVD is a simple-to-use DVD player combining all the features you would expect to find in a standard consumer DVD player, in addition to some very advanced functionality, such as full VCD 2.0 support, full precision video decoding, a choice of user interfaces, and video display options. - Page 43 Utility Setup 4-21 Read the license agreement. Click “Yes” to continue. Enter your name, the name of the company for whom you work, and the product serial number. Click “Next>” to continue. Setup will install SiluroDVD in the following folder. To install to this folder, click “Next>”.
- Page 44 4-22 Chapter 4 Type a new folder name, or select one from the existing folders list. Click “Next>” to continue. When the installation has finished installing necessary procedures, you can simply click Finish complete installation process or check “Yes, I want to view the Readme File”...
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Page 45: Directx
Utility Setup 4-23 4-3. DirectX For the best gaming capability, we suggest that you install the latest DirectX driver. Some newer games will also ask you to install the DirectX driver before you start them. Start Windows. Insert Installation CD into CD-ROM drive, it should execute the installation program... -
Page 46: Graphic Max
Graphic Max! Important Warning Message ABIT does not provide any warranty or support for this utility. The usage of this utility is at your own risk. This risk includes all damages caused by this utility. If you don't accept this warning, don’t use this utility. - Page 47 Utility Setup 4-25 Click “Graphic Max”. The welcome screen appears. Click “Next>” start installation. Setup will install Graphic Max in the following folder. To install to this folder, click “Next>”. To install to a different folder, click “Browse…” and select another folder.
- Page 48 Click “Next>” to continue. Click “Finish” to complete the setup. Select “Start Programs ABIT Graphic Max” to launch Graphic Max. Each time you execute the program, you will see this warning message screen. Read the entire message and then click “Agree”...
- Page 49 Utility Setup 4-27 When the Graphic Max screen appears, you can use the sliders to adjust the “Core Clock Frequency” and the “Memory Clock Frequency”. Please proceed with care. User’s Manual...
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Page 50: Eep Color
4-28 Chapter 4 4-5. 3Deep Color The 3Deep Color is an application to correct lighting, shading and color for all your 2D and 3D games. You get more realistic graphics and better effects, plus a “see first, shoot first” advantage over your online competitors. Finally, you can take your hands off your monitor controls and put them back where they belong -- on the warm trigger of your laser-sighted rocket launcher. - Page 51 Utility Setup 4-29 Read the license agreement. Click “Yes” to continue. Setup will install E-Color Software in the following folder. To install to this folder, click “Next>”. To install to a different folder, click “Browse…” and select another folder. The 3Deep Color Wizard appears.
- Page 52 4-30 Chapter 4 Set the brightness control of your monitor to maximum, then reduce brightness control until the farthest monster image disappears. Click on the blue, red, and green patches where you see just a hint of color. Do not change monitor brightness now.
- Page 53 Utility Setup 4-31 10. Click on the blue, red, and green squares that appear to blended into background. 11. Click “Finish” to end the 3Deep Color setup. 12. This tab explains the meaning of each different icon appears in the taskbar. User’s Manual...
- Page 54 4-32 Chapter 4 13. Select the item you would like to activate. Click “Next”. Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600...
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Page 55: Display Tray Icon
Utility Setup 4-33 4-6. Display Tray Icon After installation of display drivers, you will find a display tray icon on the taskbar’s status area. Clicking this icon opens this Display Tray, showing a menu composed of shortcuts of the graphics board’s enhanced and other functions. Note: Besides clicking this display tray icon to control the display properties, another way to do this is to right-click the Windows desktop area, click Properties Settings... - Page 56 4-34 Chapter 4 If you want to change the refresh rate of display adapter, move cursor to “Refresh Rate”, here you can directly choose the display refresh rate you want. Note: Make sure your display monitor supports the higher refresh rate choose;...
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Page 57: Bios Flashing Utility
You may update the newest Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600 drivers or BIOS files from your dealer or directly download from our WEB site at http://www.abit.com.tw. Note: When you use the flash utility to flash the BIOS, the screen will be blank for about 10 seconds. - Page 58 4-36 Chapter 4 The following commands are for the NVIDIA Flash ROM programming utility V4.13, for your reference only. NVIDIA Flash ROM utility v04.13 Commands List: Example of use: NVFLASH -s4 –f BIOS.ROM -l -f<filename> Flash the ROM using <filename>, then do compare and ~CRC32. b <filename>...
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Page 59: Appendix A. How To Get Technical Support
3. Check the ABIT Technical Terms Guide and FAQ on our Website. We are trying to expand and make the FAQs more helpful and information rich. Let us know if you have any suggestions. - Page 60 How they serve you is also a good reference for your next purchase. 6. Contacting ABIT. If you feel that you need to contact ABIT directly you can send email to the ABIT technical support department. First, please contact the support team for the branch office closest to you.
- Page 61 Unit 3, 24-26 Boulton Road Stevenage, Herts SG1 4QX, UK abituksales@compuserve.com abituktech@compuserve.com Tel: 44-1438-228888 Fax: 44-1438-226333 In Germany and Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) countries: AMOR Computer B.V. (ABIT's European Office) Van Coehoornstraat 7, 5916 PH Venlo, The Netherlands sales@abit.nl technical@abit.nl Tel: 31-77-3204428 Fax: 31-77-3204420...
- Page 62 Technical Support Form and send it to your dealer or our technical support mailbox. The mailbox address is: technical@abit.com.tw. We will try to solve your problem as soon as possible. You must provide specific information on your equipment. Also please describe in detail the problems you encountered.
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Page 63: Technical Support Form
How to Get Technical Support Technical Support Form Company Name: Phone Number: Contact Person: Fax Number: E-mail Address: VGA Card BIOS Version * VGA Card Product Name Motherboard Manufacturer, VGA Card Software and Model Name and Chipset type Driver Version Monitor Manufacturer Operating System Type and Model... - Page 64 Appendix A Thank you, ABIT Computer Corporation http://www.abit.com.tw Siluro GF4 Ti4400/Ti4600...