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- Page 1 ® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator M S - 8801 ® Trident Blade 3D 9880 Graphics Accelerator User’s Guide VERSION 1.0 1999/02/25 ROC...
- Page 2 ® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator FCC-B Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
- Page 3 ® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator Copyright Notice The material in this document is the intellectual property of MICRO- STAR INTERNATIONAL. We take every care in the preparation of this document, but no guarantee is given as to the correctness of its contents.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator Table of Contents Chapter 1 MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 Graphics Accelerator 1. Overview ............... 1-1 2. Features ..............1-1 Chip List................1-1 General Features..............1-1 2D Acceleration ............1-1 3D Acceleration ............1-2 Rendering Engine ............ - Page 5 ® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator ® ® ® ® ® Chapter 2 Installation of Trident Blade 3D ..9880 VGA Driver 1. Driver ..................2-1 ® 1.1 Install Enhance Drivers for Windows 95/98 ......2-1 ®...
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Page 6: Chapter 1 Ms-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 Graphics Accelerator
3D setup and rendering with 2D graphical user interface (GUI) acceleration. The Blade 3D 9880 THAMA (Trident Hardware Assisted MPEG-2 Architecture) brings DVD playback to the multimedia PC. The MS-8801 uses high performance SGRAM. 2. Features Chip List: r Trident ®... -
Page 7: Driver
MS-8801 Trident ® Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator 3D Acceleration l Integrated 1 million triangle/s set-up engine reduces CPU and bus bandwidth requirements l 4K on-chip texture cache l Edge anti-aliasing l Modulate alpha function l Composite alpha modulate... -
Page 8: System Requirements
MS-8801 Trident ® Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator 3. System Requirements To install MS-8801 VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following requirements: ® Computer Intel Pentium processor, Intel ® Pentium II/III processor or compat- ible system... -
Page 9: Card Layout
® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator 5. Card Layout CON 1 CON 2 Trident 9880 Blade 3D AGP Graphics Processor U1/U2/U3/U5 SGRAM 512Kx32/SGRAM 1Mx32 VGA BIOS Crystal 14.31818MHz VGA Connector D-SUB 15-pin TL431 DIP MOSFET TO-252 N-TYPE... -
Page 10: Db 15 Pin Connector
® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator 6. DB 15 Pin Connector Analog Video Display Connector(DB15-S) Signal Description Green Blue Not used Ground Ground Ground Ground Not used Ground Not used Horizontal Sync Vertical Sync... -
Page 11: Vertical Refresh Rate
® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator 7. Vertical Refresh Rate Resolution Color Vertical Refresh (Hz) 640x480 8bit, 16bit, 32bit 60,70,72,75,85,100,120,160 800x600 8bit, 16bit, 32bit 60,70,72,75,85,100,120,160 1024x768 8bit, 16bit, 32bit 60,70,72,75,85,100,120 1280x1024 8bit, 16bit 60,70,72,75,85,100 1600x1200 8bit, 16bit... - Page 12 1. Driver ® 1.1 Install Enhance Drivers for Windows 95/98 After installing the MS-8801 VGA card into the mainboard, Win- ® dows 95/98 will auto-detect changes in your hardware configura- tion; this will install the Standard VGA Driver. To get the maximum performance, you need to install the MS-8801 driver.
- Page 13 ® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator Step 2: Click on Install VGA Drivers button. Step 3: Click on the Next button. This will copy the necessary files into the hard drive. Choose Yes, I want to restart my computer now.
- Page 14 ® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator New Display Properties: This function is used for setting Color palette, Desktop Area and Refresh rate.
- Page 15 MS-8801 Trident ® Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator This function is used to show the chip version and memory size.
- Page 16 MS-8801 Trident ® Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator This function is used for setting Gamma Adjustment.
- Page 17 After installing MS-8801Card, Windows NT will default to Standard VGA mode 640x480x16 colors. To install MS-8801 enhanced driver, follow the steps below: Step 1: Insert the CD_Title provided into your CD-ROM drive. After inserting the CD_Title, this will autorun show- ing this window.
- Page 18 ® MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator Step 3: Click on the Next button. This will copy the necessary files into the hard drive. Choose Yes, I want to restart my computer now. Step 4: Click on the Finish button.
- Page 19 MS-8801 Trident ® Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator Using Display Properties new function: This function is used to show the Display Driver version, chip version and memory size.
- Page 20 MS-8801 Trident ® Blade 3D 9880 User’s Guide Graphics Accelerator This function is used for setting Color palette, Desktop Area and Refresh rate.