User manual ATI FIRE GL2

[. . . ] Fire GL2 User's Guide Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2000 Fire GL Graphics; All rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCING THE FIRE GL2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ABOUT YOUR FIRE GL2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hardware Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] If the Fire GL CD cannot install the Service Pack to your system, the driver installation stops. Obtain Windows NT Service Pack 6 from Microsoft, update your Windows NT 4. 0, and run the Quick Start utility again. 20 Installing the Fire GL2 3. If you select Custom, a list of software components will be displayed. When the DIAMOND Install dialog displays the components to be installed click on Next. (Depending on which components you chose different windows might appear. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Settings, or right-click on the Windows desktop, select Properties and Settings. Set the resolution, color depth, and refresh rate that best suit your requirements and your monitor's performance. When the System Settings Change window asks you to restart your computer, click No. The Quick Start utility will start automatically, if you insert the Fire GL CD into your CD-ROM drive after the operating system has started. If your CD-ROM auto-run is not enabled and/or the Quick Start program does not start automatically: Click the Start button in the task bar, click Run, and then select START. EXE from the root directory of the Fire GL CD. If you select Custom, a list of software components will be displayed. When the DIAMOND Install dialog displays the components to be installed click on Next. (Depending on which components you chose different windows might appear. After Windows 2000 reboots, the Found New Hardware message displays the Digital Signature Not Found dialog and prompts you Do you want to continue the installation?Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Settings, or right-click on the Windows desktop, select Properties and Settings. Set the resolution (Screen area), and color depth that best suit your requirements and your monitor's performance. Set the refresh rate for the monitor connected to the Fire GL2 graphics accelerator in your system. Click OK until you are on the Windows desktop. Note: Refer to your Windows 2000 online help and documentation for further information on using the Monitor and Settings dialogs. 22 Installing the Fire GL2 FIRE GL2 SOFTWARE UTILITIES CHANGING THE VIDEO SETTINGS MODIFYING APPLICATION PROFILES As part of its Windows NT/2000 drivers, Fire GL2 installs additional property pages to your Display Properties control panel. Use the Configuration dialog to customize application profiles for individual application settings. The Information dialog displays some card-specific hardware and driver information. Use the Monitor and Adjustment dialogs, together with the Settings dialog, to select your monitor and adjust the screen display, resolution, color depth, and refresh rate. Fire GL2 Software Utilities 23 CHANGING THE VIDEO SETTINGS The dialogs in the Display Properties menu allow setting and adjusting the video settings to suit your requirements best. How to Switch to the Display Properties? 1. After Windows has finished booting, click Start > Settings > Control Panel. [. . . ] If you do not have this option and your graphics card does not receive an interrupt, contact your motherboard manufacturer for an updated BIOS that has this option. Some older ISA legacy add-in cards (with jumpers, non-PnP) may cause a conflict if they are not configured in the ESCD (extended system configuration data) area of the system BIOS. Please refer to your computer's User's Guide for information on using the ISA Configuration Utility ICU to add the required legacy card resources to the system. I/O Address 38 Troubleshooting TECHNICAL DETAILS FEATURES AND PERFORMANCE PIN ASSIGNMENTS VIDEO MODES BLOCK DIAGRAM FEATURES AND PERFORMANCE Hardware Design Single 2/3 length AGP/ATX card AGP4x Version 2. 0 compliant including side band signalling support Controller IBM Chipset: IBM RC 1000 256-bit graphics rasterizer and IBM GT 1000 hardware geometry engine with integrated features. VGA controller 2D/3D Raster Engine including dual texture unit Video Overlay Unit 2 DMA / BLIT Units Polygon Setup Processor 300 MHz / 30-bit PaletteDAC, including 4 color lookup tables and gamma correction table 256-bit DDR memory interface Technical Details 39 Memory and BIOS 64 MByte Double Data Rate (DDR) SGRAM for unified framebuffer, Z-buffer and texture storage 128 KByte BIOS FlashROM, 3. 3V only, reprogrammable by software Connectors Standard blue 15-pin D-VGA video output connector 25-pin DVI-D output connector for digital flat-panel (DFP) displays and digital CRT displays Stereographic 3-pin Mini-DIN output connector for stereoviewing eyewear (supports StereoGraphics CrystalEyes shutter glasses). Hardware Performance 32-bit RGB True color 2D and 3D acceleration TrueColor screen resolutions up to 1920 x 1200, double-buffered 24-bit Z, 8-bit stored alpha, 8-bit overlay & 8-bit WID, 8-bit clip/stencil planes Performance test on a 733 MHz single Pentium III, 512 MB RAMBus, 1280x1024, TrueColor, 60 Hz. [. . . ]