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- Page 1 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Colorful Graphics Card ATI Series User’s Manual Colorful Technology Website: http://www.colorful.cn...
- Page 2 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Copyright This VGA manual belongs to Colorful Technology LTD. It won’t be permitted to copy, change, or translate without prior permission. Disclaimer All trademarks used in this manual are the sole property of their respective owners. WARRANTY VOID CONDITIONS The product is guaranteed for 24 months from the date of original purchase from Colorful graphics card.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Table of Contents Chapter 1 Hardware Installation..........................1 1.1 Packing Contents ............................1 1.2 How to install............................... 1 Chapter 2 Driver Installation ............................. 5 2.1 Driver installation in Windows Vista......................5 Chapter 3 ATI Catalyst Control Center in Vista ......................9 3.1 ATI Catalyst Control Center Introduction.................... - Page 4 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual...
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Page 5: Chapter 1 Hardware Installation
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Chapter 1 Hardware Installation Before you begin… Thanks for purchasing Colorful graphics card. Please check the packing contents first before the installation. If there was any broken or parts missing, please contact your franchiser. 1.1 Packing Contents 1* Colorful graphics card 1* Windows 2000/XP/Vista driver CD 1* User’s manual... - Page 6 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 5. Some high-end graphic cards need an additional power cable Note: If the additional power cable is not connected, the computer will not boot, or the system will warn. 6. Pay attention on other parts of the motherboard when installing the card. Don’t open the plastic nips of After the installation, please note DIMM slots before installing the...
- Page 7 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 8. HDMI ( ) port. The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a compact audio/video connector interface for transmitting uncompressed digital streams. It represents a digital alternative to consumer analog standards. HDMI connects digital audio/video sources such as set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, personal computers, video game consoles, and AV receivers to compatible digital audio devices, video monitors, and digital televisions (DTV).
- Page 8 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 10. VVC and UVC VVC (VRAM Voltage-Control) and UVC (VPU Voltage-Control) switches are Colorful particular high-light for enhancing overclocking capability; you can find them usually on the high-end graphics card. VRAM Voltage- Voltage- Control Control The VVC and UVC are used for adjusting the memory voltage and core voltage.
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Page 9: Chapter 2 Driver Installation
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Chapter 2 Driver Installation Before installing the graphics card driver……. Please Note: 1. Make sure you have installed the chipset driver of the motherboard 2. Make sure the DirectX(Direct9.0 or later) has been installed. Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. - Page 10 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Step 2: Select “Install Additional Languages” install mother tongue Click “Next” to continue Select “Install” to install the driver.
- Page 11 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Step 3: Click “Express” for full installation, we’re highly recommended you select express Click “Browse” if you want to change the installation location Click “Accept” and click “Next”...
- Page 12 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Step4: Click “Finish” and restart the computer. Attention: 1. The driver is updated frequently in order to improve the graphics card compatibility, we try our best to keep the latest drivers in the drivers CD, but if you want update the driver, please visit COLORFUL website (http://www.colorful.cn/) or ATI website (http://ati.amd.com).
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Page 13: Chapter 3 Ati Catalyst Control Center In Vista
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Chapter 3 ATI Catalyst Control Center in Vista ATI Catalyst Control Center is designed for Microsoft® Windows XP and Windows Vista. You can use ATI Catalyst Control Center to control your ATI hardware and access other ATI software installed on your system. -
Page 14: Ati Catalyst Control Center Interface
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.2 ATI Catalyst Control Center Interface 3.2.1 Catalyst types There are two types of View Mode of Catalyst Control Center when you start the program for the first time, Basic View and Advanced View. The Basic View is for easy setup wizards and quick settings. -
Page 15: View
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.2.3 View ATI Catalyst Control Center contains three views that are suited to varying levels of familiarity with the application. Basic View Basic View is the default view when ATI Catalyst Control Center is started for the very first time. It includes a wizard that guides you through the process of configuring your display devices. -
Page 16: Profiles
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.2.5 Profiles Profiles Manager is a management tool for creating customized environments for your desktop, video, and 3D applications. Use Profiles Manager to define and save video settings into a profile so they can be restored at a later date using hot keys or file associations. -
Page 17: Help
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.2.7 Help The ATI Catalyst Control Center Help provides conceptual information on the graphics technologies for the graphics card and detailed instructions for optimizing your graphics environment. You can also use the Help to access usage information, generate a problem report, and get view current software version information... -
Page 18: Information Center
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.3 Information Center Information Center The Information Center aspect provides detailed information about all installed graphics hardware associated software. Graphics Software includes information such as installed 2D and 3D driver versions, OpenGL version, and ATI Catalyst Control Center version. -
Page 19: Setup Single Display
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.4.1 Setup Single Display Right click on the desktop Select Personalize to open the profiles Use the slide bar to change the resolution of the monitor Click the “Advanced Settings” This setting determines how many times the monitor displays an entire screen in one second. -
Page 20: Setup Dual-Display
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.4.2 Setup Dual-Display From the Graphics Settings tree, click Displays Manager > Displays Properties. Click the Detect Display first, and Right Click the Display Icon, you can set the primary display Extend Mode Right Click the Display Icon on the left-hand, and select the Extend Main onto digital panel in the... -
Page 21: Display Options
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.5 Display Options The Display Options aspect gives you additional control optimize performance of OpenGL and Direct 3D applications. Use the aspect to change the current 3D refresh rate, the display device detection method, and display management options. - Page 22 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.6.1 Monitor Adjustments Use the Monitor Adjustments page to control how the desktop appears on your monitor. Using the page, you can resize and reposition the computer desktop on your monitor's display screen. You can also adjust the horizontal and vertical sync or enable composite sync.
- Page 23 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.7 3D The 3D setting contains: Standard 3D Settings The Standard Settings aspect provides access to a universal slider control where you can simultaneously adjust all of the standard 3D settings for any type of 3D application. This page is useful when you are not aware of which type of 3D settings your application uses, or when you want to use an overall adjustment control that rapidly configures your application.
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Page 24: Color
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual All 3D Settings The All Settings page combines all of the principal 3D features onto a single page, without any preview window, allowing for quick access and adjustment. You can change the settings for the following 3D features as you normally would on each feature's own page: anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, ATI Catalyst A.I., mipmap detail level, display refresh rate, and adaptive anti-aliasing. -
Page 25: Avivo Video
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 3.9 Avivo Video Video Presets for ATI Radeon X1000 Series and Later ATI Catalyst Control Center comes with several video presets containing pre-defined video brightness, contrast, saturation, tint, and gamma settings. To optimize video playback using these settings, choose the desired video preset. -
Page 26: Ati Overdrive
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Theater Video Mode for ATI Radeon X1000 Series and Later Use the Theater Mode page to change the way you view streaming video. You can adjust the aspect ratio, overlay display mode, and preferred viewing mode, such as Widescreen or Fullscreen. Note: These settings will only affect applications with video overlay support. -
Page 27: Chapter 4 How To Build An Hdmi Home Theater
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Chapter 4 How to Build an HDMI Home Theater Note: 1. Chapter 4 is optional for the graphics card which support for HDMI 2. DisplayPort system has the same installation steps with HDMI system, so we don’t introduce it specially. 4.1 About the HDMI The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a compact audio/video connector interface for transmitting uncompressed digital streams. - Page 28 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual pass these signals through. While DVI and HDMI require separate clock signals, DisplayPort embeds the clock in the data signal. The data transmission protocol in DisplayPort is based on micro packets and is extensible for future feature additions, whereas DVI/HDMI transmission protocol is a Serial Data Stream at 10x pixel clock rate.
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Page 29: How To Install Hdmi
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 4.3 How to Install HDMI 1. Connect the HDMI cable to the HDMI connector of the television. 2. Connect the other end of HDMI cable to the ATI graphics card. 3. Choose HDMI when start up... - Page 30 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual 4. At last, setup the audio output in the Control Panel, and select the displays that you use in the ATI Catalyst Center. Select the Sound in the Control Panel Set the Digital Output Device(HDMI) Default...
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Page 31: Faqs
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual FAQs This part contains a list of symptom that may indicate a problem with your software or hardware and some troubleshooting way you can take to solve the problem. If you still have problems after trying our suggestions or if you’re having a problem that is not described below, please contact us. - Page 32 Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Q: Why the monitor appears some abnormal dots? A: This is usually because the graphics card and motherboard are not well connected. Please clean the connect fingers or return. Q: What is function of the external power supply? A: Some high power cards, such as ATI RADEON 1900 series, RADEON 2600 series, RADEON 3800 series, RADEON 4800 series etc., have extra power supply, to make up for the lack of power that motherboard supply.
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Page 33: Technical Support
Colorful Graphics Card User’s Manual Technical Support If you can’t settle the questions, please contact with our engineer, and send the following information to us. (Note: please give a description about your computer system and your display equipments.) 1. Product Name 2.
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