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V01.00.01 Feb 13

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  • Page 1 Image4 User Manual V01.00.01 Feb 13...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY Safety Instructions Introduction Specifications: Image4 Hardware Installation System Requirements Unpacking Installing an Image4 Installing the Display Drivers Installing the Additional Image4 Cards Power Connecting up to 40 Screens MultiScreenConfiguration...
  • Page 3 FCC Compliance Image4 Federal Communications Commission Statement ThisdevicecomplieswithFCCRulesPart15.Operationissubjecttothefollowingtwoconditions: This device may not cause harmful interference, and This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation 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.

  • Page 4: Declaration Of Conformity

    +441332-294441 Herebydeclarestheproduct: Product Name: Four Head PCIe Graphics Card Model Number: Image4 (DGC149) Conformstothefollowingspecifications: FCC Part 15 Subpart b Class A Digital Device Supplementary Information: This device has been shown to be in compliance with and was tested in accordance with the meas- urementproceduresspecifiedintheStandards&Specificationslistedaboveandasindicatedinthe...

  • Page 5: Safety Instructions

    Datapath for repair using Datapath RMA procedures. Disposal At the end of life all Datapath products should be disposed of as per local laws and regulations dictate. In UK contact Datapath to arrange disposal. Our WEE registration number is WEEE/AA0005ZR.

  • Page 6: Introduction

    The Datapath Image4 multi screen graphics accelerator is single slot PCIe card for displaying Windows across multiple screens as one extended desktop. The Image4 has two graphics processor units (GPU) each with 256Mbytes of DDR2 RAM. Half of this RAM is accessible from the PCIe bus, the rest is accessible only by the GPU.

  • Page 7: Image4

    VisionSD8 or VisionSD4+1 capture cards • Up to 10 cards per system for a maximum of 40 displays. In order to use 3 or more Image4 cards you must use a Vision800 system or a system based on the Express9 backplane.

  • Page 8: Hardware Installation

    Hardware Installation This section deals with installing Image4 cards and spreading the Windows desktop across all the screens. If you are intending to use the Image4 cards with other Datapath products, you should follow this section to gettheWindowsdesktopworkingcorrectlyfirst. System Requirements • APentiumPCIebuscomputerwithsufficientfreePCIeslots.

  • Page 9: Installing An Image4

    Remove the PC cover • Locate a vacant PCIe (x4 or above) slot for the Image4 on the motherboard and remove the backing plate (retain all screws). If in doubt consult your motherboard documentation to correctly identify a PCIe (PCI-express) slot.

  • Page 10: Installing The Display Drivers

    The amount of current a power supply can deliver on each voltage rail is limited. Often there is also a limit on the total power. Each Image4 card requires 0.25A at +3.3V and 1.7A at +12V. You can calculate the amount of current and the amount of power required for the Image4 cards. For ex- ample,therequirementsfora24-screensystemofImage4cardsiscalculatedasfollows: Current +3.3V 6 x 0.25A = 1.5A...

  • Page 11: Connecting Up To 40 Screens

    Image4 cards are used is useful when connecting the screens and the outputs from video switches. Notethatifyouhavenotconfiguredyoursystemtoboot-uponon-boardVGAgraphicsdeviceor another plug-in VGA card the system will boot-up on the master head of one of the Image4 cards but it is not possible to control which output will be used, this is motherboard BIOS dependent.
  • Page 12 The Found New Hardware Wizard will announce that new hardware has been found. This will happen once for each slave Image4 card you have added to the system. Do not use the Found New Hardware Wizard to install the Image4 drivers.

  • Page 13: MultiScreenConfiguration

    There should be a monitor icon for each Image4 card and at least one monitor icon for each of the other graphics devices in the system (there is a limit to the number of monitor icons that are displayed).
  • Page 14 Resolution per Screen: Note: Changing the resolution may alter the colour palette settings, so check that it is correct before clicking OK or Apply. Colour Palette: Select the number of colours you want to use. Refresh Rate: Use the drop down arrow to select a refresh rate for the desktop. Only the refresh rates available at the selected resolution and colour depth are displayed.
  • Page 15 Custom MonitortiminginformationfromtheRegistry.(SeeAppendix1:DefiningCustomModesfordetails) Monitor (Master) Monitor timing information from the monitor attached to output 1 of the Master Image4 is used for all outputs. Monitor (Each) The monitor timing information from each monitor is used for the output connected to that monitor.
  • Page 16 Enabling this check box limits the resolutions displayed in the resolution box to those that are supported by all of the screens attached to the Image4 card’s active outputs. This information is read from the monitor EDIDs when the TWIN tab is opened. If the state of this check box is changed then the resolution control is updated.

  • Page 17: Datapath Limited

    Datapath Limited Datapath has a long and very successful history in the computer graphics industry. Datapath has been designing and supplying high performance, high quality graphics display systems to the world’s larg- est and most demanding companies and institutions since 1982. Datapath was one of the founding companies of multi-screen Windows acceleration using single and multi board solutions.
  • Page 18 UK Headquarters and Main Sales Office Datapath Ltd., Alfreton Road, Derby, DE21 4AD, UK Tel:+44(0)1332294441 Fax:+44(0)1332290667 Email:sales@datapath.co.uk www.datapath.co.uk...
  • Page 19 Appendix 1 - Defining Custom Modes DefiningcustommodesiscarriedoutusingtheCustomModeUtilitiestoolthatcanbefoundonthe DatapathCD.ThelatestversionmayalsobedownloadedfromtheDatapathwebsite: www.datapath.co.uk TheCustomModestoolisautilityfordefiningcustommodesthatcanbegeneratedbytheImage4 graphics card. The custom modes tool must be used on a system where the active display driver supports custom modes. To generate a custom mode the following values must be entered into the utility applicationdialogbox: • X Resolution - The active display width in pixels.
  • Page 20 The second card drives the next four screens and so on. This sounds simple, but nevertheless, can be confusing when trying to determine how to assign monitor video cables to the Image4 out¬puts. Changing the Order of the Screens Changing the order in which the screens appear is done using the Wall Control application.
  • Page 22 Index Analog 6 Cables 8 Card format 6 Colour Palette 14 Copyright Statement 17 DVI-D outputs 6 DVI-Y-cable 8 Force DVI Output 15 Frame buffer memory 6 Genlock cables 11 Image4-DVI 8 Installation CD-ROM 8 Max number of cards per system 6 Max output resolution 6 MTBF 6 Operating temperature 6 Prune Modes 16...
  • Page 23 Refresh Rate 14 Relative humidity 6 Resolution per Screen 14 Screen Arrangement 15 Source of Mode 14 Storage temperature 6 Support for Windows 7 System Requirements 8 Technical Support 17 UK Headquarters 18 Unpacking 8 VGA-Y-cable 8 Warranty 6...

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