Asus AGP-V3400TNT/16MB, User Manual

Page 1: ...R V3400TNT Series AGP Graphics Cards USER S MANUAL Hardware Video Drivers AGP V3400TNT 8MB AGP V3400TNT T 8MB AGP V3400TNT TV 8MB AGP V3400TNT 16MB AGP V3400TNT T 16MB AGP V3400TNT TV 16MB ...

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Page 4: ...ut 12 Installation Procedures 13 New Systems 13 Systems with Existing VGA Card 13 III Windows 95 98 14 Operating System Requirements 14 Windows 95 14 Windows 98 14 Driver Installation 15 Method 1 ASUS Quick Installation Program 15 Method 2 Display Property Page 16 Method 3 Plug and Play 17 ASUS Windows 95 98 Install Shell 18 Install Display Driver 18 Change Resolution and Color Display Properties ...

Page 5: ...8 Control Panel 29 Install Live3400 Utility AGP V3400TNT TV only 31 Using ASUS LIVE3400 AGP V3400TNT TV only 31 Show Hide Video Source Option 32 Video Capture Driver 32 IV Microsoft Windows NT 33 Windows NT 4 0 33 Installation Procedures 33 V Display Information 34 VI Troubleshooting 36 Description 36 Recommended Action 36 ...

Page 6: ...lar installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on ...

Page 7: ...Ex ecute model support Optimized for Direct3D acceleration with complete support for DirectX 5 0 and 6 0 features such as multi texturing bump mapping texture modulation light maps full scene anti aliasing and Trilinear and 8 tap Anisotropic filtering bet ter than Trilinear Mip mapping OpenGL ICD support in both Windows 95 98 and Windows NT TwiN Texel TNT 32 bit graphics pipeline providing 2 textu...

Page 8: ...ideo In TV Out 16MB SDRAM Frame Buffer AGP V3400TNT 16MB Pure VGA AGP V3400TNT TV 16MB VGA Video In TV Out IMPORTANT ASUSAGP V3400TNT TV video cards have NTSC and PALver sions Make sure that your video card is of the same type as the devices you will be connecting to your card Otherwise video capabilities will not be available I Introduction ...

Page 9: ...y CD Disc ASUS AGP V3400TNT 8MB Layout 8MB SGRAM Frame Buffer NOTES The AGP V3400TNT does not have video in and TV out connectors Thus the video TV utilities are not needed for this model J1 Digital PC to TV Encoder VGA Monitor output 15pin standard VGA Output SGRAM SGRAM SGRAM R SGRAM VGA BIOS NVIDIA RIVA TNT Graphics Processor Chip with Fan TM FAN_PWR Projector VIP Connector A VIP Connector B ...

Page 10: ...eo Output Composite RCA Output VGA Monitor output 15pin standa rd CCD camcorder input RCA video model composite TV output RCA video model Tuner TV Box Input 7pin video model SVHS TV output 7pin video model SGRAM J1 SGRAM SGRAM R SGRAM Digital PC to TV Encoder VGA BIOS NVIDIA RIVA TNT Graphics Processor Chip with Fan TM FAN_PWR Projector Digital Video Decoder VIP Connector A VIP Connector B ASUS TV...

Page 11: ...y CD Disc J1 Digital PC to TV Encoder VGA Monitor output 15pin standard VGA Output R VGA BIOS NVIDIA RIVA TNT Graphics Processor Chip with Fan TM FAN_PWR Projector VIP Connector A VIP Connector B SDRAM or SGRAM SDRAM or SGRAM NOTES The AGP V3400TNT does not have video in and TV out connectors Thus the video TV utilities are not needed for this model II Installation AGP V3400TNT II Hardware Install...

Page 12: ...C to TV Encoder VGA BIOS NVIDIA RIVA TNT Graphics Processor Chip with Fan TM FAN_PWR Projector Digital Video Decoder VIP Connector A VIP Connector B ASUS TV Box CATV SDRAM or SGRAM SDRAM or SGRAM Item Checklist ASUS AGP V3400TNT TV PAL or NTSC or ASUS AGP V3400TNT T Video in AGP V3400TNT TV only and TV out cables This User s Manual Manual Adobe Acrobat PDF ASUS AGP V3400TNT Series Driver Utility C...

Page 13: ...VGA Card 1 Shut down your computer and unplug all electrical cords 2 ReplacetheexistingVGAcardwiththeASUSAGP V3400TNTSeriesgraphicscard 3 Restart your computer theASUSAGP V3400TNTSeries graphics card should be automatically detected and the display drivers automatically updated II Hardware Installation NOTE The ASUS AGP V3400TNT Series graphics cards can only be installed in motherboards with an A...

Page 14: ...indows CurrentVersion VersionNumber OSR2 0 with USB has Version Windows 95 and VersionNumber 4 03 1212 or 4 03 1214 Windows 98 Only Windows 98 supports full Direct3D and AGP features If you are not using Windows 98 and you want to use full Direct3D andAGP features you must upgrade Windows before installing the AGP display driver Windows 98 includes GART drivers for the major chipsets but it is rec...

Page 15: ...od 1 ASUS Quick Installation Program NOTE See III Windows 95 98 ASUS Windows 95 98 Install Shell Install Display Driver for detailed steps 1 Start Windows 2 Switch display to Windows Standard Display Adapter VGA mode and then restart Windows 3 Insert the CD installation disc into your CD ROM drive 4 The ASUS Windows 95 98 Install Shell appears Click Drivers and Utilities and then click Install Dis...

Page 16: ...k Change on the Adapter tab and then click Have Disk When the Install From Disk dialog box appears type the location of the ASUS3400 INF file or click Browse to search the CD ROM drive 6 In the Drives box of the Open dialog box select your CD ROM drive 7 In the Folders box double click the WIN95 folder and then select ASUS3400 INF in the File name box 8 ClickOK Alistofvideocardsappears SelectyourV...

Page 17: ...ick Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer 4 When Setup prompts you for the location of the driver type D WIN95 to direct Setup to the INF file and then click Finish to install the driver 5 When Setup has finished installing all the necessary files on your computer it will prompt you to restart your computer Click Yes and then Finish to restart your computer and to complete Setup NOTE ...

Page 18: ... If you want to choose the options to be installed clickCustom ClickNextafteryouhavechosenyourpreferredSetupType 2 The Drivers box appears Click Install Display Driver to open the Welcome dialog box of Setup 1 InserttheCDinstallationdiscintoyour CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup exe in the root directory of the CD Click Driver...

Page 19: ...ile Compact setup installs the display driver only 6 After all drivers and components have been copied you will prompted to restart your computer Click No and then Finish to go back to Windows Shutdown and turn off your computer Replace your VGA card with the ASUS AGP V3400TNT series graphics card Restart your computer and the drivers should be installed automatically 5 The Select Components dialo...

Page 20: ...nly and may not reflect the screen contents displayed on your system Restores the Direct3D settings to their defaults Higher performance but lower quality when enabled Selecting Tri linear rendering quality will be higher When checked games will achieve higher frame rate but tear frame may occur Size of anti aliasing supersampling block Format for 8 bit indexed texture to convert When checked game...

Page 21: ...or depth Information Tab You can lists all the information about the VGA card and video configurations from the Information Menu III Windows 95 98 III Windows 95 98 Display Properties Shows AGP memory information will be blank or warning given if no AGP card or memory is found Enables Disables the color settings Color mapping chart Individual channel adjustment Restores Color Correction menu to de...

Page 22: ...ity setting Displays the Change Refresh Rate box below Sets the screen size Restores the Monitor menu settings to its defaults Click to change the on screen test patterns Refresh Rate Box You can change the refresh rate setting for your monitor from this Menu Restores settings to its defaults Displays the available refresh rates Fine adjustment of the refresh rate Tests the refresh rate before app...

Page 23: ...es better quality and turned on and you are in any one of these modes 640x480 or 800x600 NOTE Dualviewfunctionworksonlyinhighercolormodes suchas800x600x16 bits or 640x480x16bits Output device selection TV signal format Adjusts brightness Adjusts contrast Adjusts the anti flicker effect Adjusts the screen display position on your TV Restores default settings TV Adjustment You can adjust TV settings...

Page 24: ...Shell click Install DirectX Install DirectX Microsoft DirectX 6 allows 3D hardware acceleration support in Windows 95 98 For Software MPEG support in Windows 95 98 you must first install the Microsoft DirectX 6 libraries and then the MPEG Video Player 4 Setup will prompt you to restart the system when it has finished copying all the files to your computer Click OK to restart Windows 3 The installa...

Page 25: ...ach chipset Follow the instructions to finish the VGARTD installation The steps provided are for Intel chipsets Install GART Driver 1 Insert your installation CD disc or double click the CD drive icon in My Com puter to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup exe in the root directory of your CD ROM drive 2 From theASUS Windows 95 98 Install Shell click Drivers and Utilities and then click Instal...

Page 26: ...If you selected No on the previous screen before clicking OK you will be presented with a selection of other drivers Make your driver selection and click Install 5 When the Welcome screen appears click Next to continue 6 Once the driver installation is finished click Finish ...

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Page 29: ... space NOTE This works only if you used Method 1 ASUS Quick Installation Pro gram to install the driver see III WIndows 95 98 Installing the Driver Using Windows 95 98 Control Panel 1 Click Start and then point to Settings 2 Click Control Panel 3 Double click the Add Remove Programs icon 4 Click the Install Uninstall tab 5 Select ASUS V3400TNT Display Driver from the list 6 Click Add Remove 7 You ...

Page 30: ...SUS AGP V3400TNT Series 30 III Windows 95 98 III Windows 95 98 Remove Driver 8 After the display drivers have been uninstalled completely you will be prompted to press OK to restart your system Click OK ...

Page 31: ...double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup exe in the root directory of the CD Install Live3400 Utility AGP V3400TNT TVonly ASUS LIVE3400 must be installed to use the video in function on theASUS AGP V3400TNT TV graphics card Show Hide Video Source Option Set Capture File Capture Single Frame F5 Full Screen Ctrl S Up button Right button Left button Do...

Page 32: ... be used with some applications that use video capture as an option such as video conference net meeting or digital video authoring applications You can use the Up or Down arrow buttons on the control panel to select the Video Connector or the Video Standard The Left and Right arrow buttons are used for making selections Show Hide Video Source Option When first using ASUS LIVE3400 you must setup t...

Page 33: ...tarts right click the desktop and click Properties 3 Click the Settings tab 4 Select Change Display Type 5 Select Adapter Type and click Change 6 Click Have Disk 7 Insert the ASUS AGP V3400TNT Series Installation CD disc 8 Type D NT40 assuming your CD ROM disc drive is in drive D or click Browse to select the path of the display driver for Windows NT Click OK 9 You will see a list of ASUS AGP V340...

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Page 36: ...olor or 32 bit true color Check necessary libraries such as DirectX or OpenGL Try to switch to a lower resolution You must install DirectX 6 so that your player can take advantage of the hardware acceleration mode DirectDraw Try to switch to a lower resolution color depth or refresh rate Switching to a lower mode allows your player to use hardware acceleration mode This is due to the chip s limita...