User manual GIGABYTE GV-N740D5OC-4GI

[. . . ] The author assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions that may appear in this document nor does the author make a commitment to update the information ontained herein. English Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Minimum system requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] If necessary, consult your computer's manual for help in removing the cover. 3. Or, if your computer has any on-board graphics capability, you may need to disable it on the motherboard. For more information, see you computer documentation. GV-N4464 Series Graphics Accelerator -8- 4. If necessary, remove the metal cover from this slot; then align your graphics card with the AGP slot, and press it in firmly until the card is fully eated. English Graphics card AGP slot 5. Replace the screw to fasten the card in place, and replace the computer cover. 6. Plug the display cable into your card; then turn on the computer and monitor. If your graphics card came with a DVI connector, you can connect a flat panel display to the appropriate connector, as shown below. . . To TV or VCR To VGA Monitor To Flat Panel Display (For GV-N740D5OC-4GI only) S-Video (For GV-N4464T-P only) You are now ready to proceed with the installation of the graphics card driver. For detailed instructions, select your operating system from the list below. -9- Hardware Installation English 3. Software Installation In this manual, we assume that your CD-ROM Drive letter to be Drive D: The installation of Win® 98/98SE / Win® 2000 / Win® ME / Win® XP drivers is very simple. When you insert the driver CD into your CD-ROM drive, you can see the AUTORUN window (if it does not show up, run "D:\setup. exe"). (Please follow the subsection 3. 1. 3 "Driver installation" to install the driver for your graphics accelerator. ) 3. 1. Taskbar icon After installation of the display drivers, you will find a GBT icon on the taskbar's status area. Right-clicking this icon opens the GBT control panel, showing a menu composed of shortcut of the graphics card's enhanced and other functions. You may click the "Display Properties" item, and then click Settings. Click the appropriate tab to change your display settings. English Right click the icon. Click "VGA Information" item into the "VGA Info" and "Color Adjust"tabs. You can link to GBT website for updated information about the graphics accelerator, latest drivers, and other information. - 17 - Software Installation English VGA Information VGA Info lists the relevant information about your card. Color Adjust Color Adjust allows you to make color adjustments, such as brightness, contrast and gamma values for each or all of RGB colors. GV-N4464 Series Graphics Accelerator - 18 - After installation of the display drivers, you will find a NVIDIA icon status area. Clicking this icon open the control panel. on the taskbar's English Right click the icon. You can adjust the properties of the graphics accelertaor from here. You can enable the nView function. - 19 - Software Installation English 3. 1. 6. Display properties pages The screen shows the information of display adapter, color, the range of display area and the refresh rate. · · · · Enable conformant OpenGL texture clamp behavior. Multi-Display Hardware Acceleration Default Color Depth (for textures) Buffer-Flipping Mode · Vertical Sync · Custom OpenGL settings Overlay Controls properties The Overlay Controls Properties is used to adjust the Brightness / Contrast / Hue / Saturation settings. Overlay properties allows for the viewing of full-motion video on your PC. However, there is only one video overlay, which is only available on the Primary display. The video overlay controls are automatically activated during playback of any video file type that supports overlay adjustments. - 23 - Software Installation English Desktop Utilities properties The "Media Center" taskbar utility lets you conveniently access various features and presets you've configured in the Display Properties directly from the Windows taskbar. [. . . ] With Windows running on your computer, you need to install the graphics card driver to take advantage of the higher performance, resolutions, and special graphics features of the graphics card. To ensure you install the latest driver, insert the Installation CD that shipped with your graphics card. To install the graphics card driver for Win® 98/98SE / Win® 2000 / Win® ME, please insert the Installation CD. Click Install Display Driver item, and follow the wizard to install the driver. [. . . ]