Gigabyte Gv-nx78x512vp-b User manual

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GV-NX78X512VP-B

GeForce™7800 GTX Graphics Accelerator

User's Manual

Rev. 101

12MD-NX78X5P-101R

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction ......................................................................................... 3

1.1. Features ..................................................................................................... 3

1.2. Minimum System Requirement ..................................................................... 3

2. Hardware Installation ........................................................................... 4

2.1. Board Layout .............................................................................................. 4

2.2. Hardware Installation ................................................................................... 6

3. Software Installation ............................................................................ 9

3.1. Windows®XP Driver and Utilities Installation ................................................. 9

3.1.1. Operating System Requirement ................................................................................... 9

3.1.2. DirectX Installation ........................................................................................................ 10

3.1.3. Driver Installation ........................................................................................................... 11

3.1.4. Vidio In Introduction ...................................................................................................... 13

3.1.5. Taskbar Icon ................................................................................................................. 18

3.1.6. Display Properties Pages ............................................................................................ 19

3.1.7. nView Properties Pages .............................................................................................. 24

3.2. Windows®2000 driver installation .............................................................. 29

4. Troubleshooting Tips ........................................................................ 30

5. Appendix .......................................................................................... 31

5.1. How to Reflash the BIOS in MS-DOS mode ............................................... 31

5.2. Resolutions and Color Depth Table (In Windows®XP) ............................... 32

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1. Introduction

1.1. Features

•Powered by NVIDIA®GeForce™7800 GTX Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

•Supports the newest PCI Express x 16

•Integrated with 512MB DDR III memory

•Supports DirectX 9.0c

•Supports NVIDIA® SLITM (Scalable Link Interface) technology (note)

•Supports video capture for video editing (VIVO)

•Supports AV / S-Video and HDTV output

•Supports D-sub connector (by adapter)

•Supports 2 DVI-I connectors

1.2. Minimum System Requirement

•IBM®or 100% PC compatible with Pentium®III 650MHz or AMD Athlon 650MHz

class processor or higher

•One PCI Express x 16 slot

•Operating Systems Windows®2000 / Windows®XP

•64MB system memory

•50MB of available disk space for full installation

•CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

•Minimum power supply 400W

(Note) SLI technology requires a PCI Express motherboard with two x16 physical connectors.

Graphics cards working in an SLI configuration must be with the same model name

(i.e. GV-NX78X512VP-B) and from the same vendor (i.e. GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY).

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2. Hardware Installation

2.1. Board Layout

(Note) Please refer to page 13 about Video In introduction.

VIVO

DVI-I Connector 2

DVI-I Connector 1

SLI connector

VIVO(Note)

DVI-I

Connector 2

DVI-I

Connector 1

Analog LCD Monitor

Digital LCD Monitor

DVI Output

NTSC / PAL TV

Projector

S-Video Output

HDTV Pr

Pb/AV Output

DVI-I to D-Sub

Adapter

DVI-I to D-Sub

Adapter

VGA Output

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Expansion cards contain very delicate Integrated Circuit (IC) chips. To

protect them against damage from static electricity, you should follow

some precautions whenever you work on your computer.

1. Turn off your computer and unplug power supply.

2. Use a grounded wrist strap before handling computer components. If you do not

have one, touch both of your hands to a safely grounded object or to a metal object,

such as the power supply case.

3. Place components on a grounded antistatic pad or on the bag that came with the

components whenever the components are separated from the system.

The card contains sensitive electric components, which can be easily damaged by

static electricity, so the card should be left in its original packing until it is installed.

Unpacking and installation should be done on a grounded anti-static mat. The operator

should be wearing an anti-static wristband, grounded at the same point as the anti-

static mat.

Inspect the card carton for obvious damage. Shipping and handling may cause damage

to your card. Be sure there are no shipping and handling damages on the card before

proceeding.

DO NOT APPLY POWER TO YOUR SYSTEM IF IT HAS BEEN DAMAGED ON

THE CARD.

In order to ensure your graphics card working correctly, please use official

Gigabyte BIOS only. Use none official Gigabyte BIOS might cause problem

on the graphics card.

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2.2. Hardware Installation

Installing Your graphics card.

Now that you have prepared your computer, you are ready to install your graphics

accelerator card.

To remove the existing graphics card:

1. Power off the computer and monitor, then

disconnect the display cable from the back

of your computer.

2. Remove the computer cover. If necessary,

consult your computer's manual for help

in removing the cover.

3. Remove any existing graphics card from

your computer.

Or, if your computer has any on-board

graphics capability, you may need to

disable it on the motherboard. For more

information, please see you computer

documentation.

To install your new graphics card:

1. Locate the PCI Express x 16 slot. If

necessary, remove the metal cover from this

slot; then align your graphics card with the

PCI Express x 16 slot, and press it in firmly

until the card is fully seated.

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2. Replace the screw to fasten the card in place,

and replace the computer cover.

You are now ready to proceed with the installation of the graphics card driver. Please refer

to next chapter for detailed instructions.

After installing the GV-NX78X512VP-B to your computer, please

remember to connect at lease one power cable on the graphics card

to the power supply connector.

We suggest you to connect both of the two power cables on the

graphics card to the power supply to achieve optimal graphics

performance.

3. Plug the display cable into your graphics

card; then turn on the computer and monitor.

To connect a flat panel directly to your

graphics card, use the DVI-I connector. To

connect a VGA monitor to the DVI-I

connector, plug the DVI-I to D-sub adapter

intotheDVI-Iconnector, thenplug themonitor

cable into the adapter. Connect a flat panel

Connect a VGA monitor via DVI-I to D-sub adapter

To TV / VCR / VIVO

To Flat Panel Display

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How NVIDIA® SLITM (Scalable Link Interface) technology works:

In an SLI configuration, two SLI-ready graphics cards with the same model and from the

same manufacturers are connected together via SLI bridge connector in a system that

provides two x 16 PCI Express slots to scale graphics performance. The picture below

shows that two graphics cards are linked in parallel in an SLI configuration.

SLI bridge connector

(provided by motherboard manufacturer)

Two SLI-ready graphics

cards of the same type.

(Example: GV-NX66T128D)

For more information about the hardware configuration of an SLI system, please refer to

motherboard user manual.

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3. Software Installation

In this manual, we assume that your CD-ROM Drive letter to be Drive D:

The installation of Windows®2000 / Windows®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"). Then you can follow the guides to setup your graphics card driver.

(Please follow the subsection 3.1.3 "Driver installation" to install the driver for your graphics

accelerator.)

3.1. Windows®XP Driver and Utilities Installation

3.1.1. Operating System Requirement

•When loading the graphics card drivers for the system, please make sure your system

has installed DirectX 9.0c or later version.

•If you install the graphics card drivers for the motherboard, which consist of SIS, or VIA

chipsets, please install the appropriate driver program for that motherboard. Or please

contact your motherboard nearest dealer for motherboard driver.

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3.1.2. DirectX Installation

Install Microsoft DirectX to enable 3D hardware acceleration support for Windows®2000 or

Windows®XP to achieve better 3D performance.

0Note: For software MPEG support in Windows®2000 or Windows®XP, you must install

DirectX first. Users who run Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or above do not need to

install DirectX separately.

Step 1. When autorun window show up, click

the Install DirectX 9 item.

Step 2. Choose I accept the agreement

and click the Next button.

Step 3. Click the Next button.

Step 4. Click Finish to restart computer.

Then the DirectX 9 installation is completed.

Installing the components.

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3.1.3. Driver Installation

A. New hardware found

After the graphics card is inserted into your computer at the first time, the windows will

automatically detect a new hardware in the system and pop out a "New Hardware Found"

message. The following is the step-by-step installation guide.

Step 1: Found new hardware wizard: Video controller (VGA Compatible)

Click "Next" button to install the driver. (There is a

driver CD disk that came with your graphics

accelerator, please insert it now.)

Or click the "Cancel" button to install the driver

from AUTORUN window.

Step 2: Found new hardware wizard: Searching and installing

The wizard will search for the driver and install it automatically.

Step 3: Found new hardware wizard: Finish

Click the "Finish" button to finish the installation.

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B. Driver installation (Autorun Window)

Insert the driver CD disk into your CD-ROM, and then you can see the AUTORUN window.

If it does not show up, please run "D:\setup.exe".

Step 2. Click the Next button.

Step 3. Click the Finish button to restart computer.

Then the driver installation is completed.

Windows installings the components.

Step 1. When autorun window show up, click the

Display Driver item.

Then click the Install Display Driver item.

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3.1.4. Vidio In Introduction

A. Install WDM Driver

Step 2.

After system restarts, go to Device Manager and

you should see two unknown devices marked with

yellow exclamation marks.

Step 1. When the Autorun screen appears,

click the Display Driver item.

Then click the WDM Driver item. Restart your

computer when the installation is completed.

Step 4.

ClickFinishafter the softwareinstallation procedure isfinished.

Then the Found New Hardware Wizard for nVidia WDM A/

V Crossbar will appear.

Step 3.

On the Found New Hardware Wizard Welcome screen, select

Install the software automatically (Recommended) and

click Next.

Use the "Found New Hardware Wizard" to

install the driver. The wizard will searches

for the driver and install it automatically.

Follow the installation steps below.

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Step 6.

When the installation is completed, press Finish to exit the

wizard.

Step 5.

On the Found New Hardware Wizard Welcome screen, select

Install the software automatically (Recommended) and

click Next.

Step 7.

Go to Device Manager > Sound, video and game

controllers and you should find that nVidia WDM

A/V Crossbar and nVidia WDM Video Capture

(universal) are both installed.

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B. Cyberlink Power Director 3.X Installation (Note)

Please install the Cyberlink Power Director 3.X (or above) version with your graphics card.

Press the "Capture" button, PowerDirector enter Capture mode, in which you can capture

media from a variety of device. (Figure 1)

Red record

button

Videobutton

Figure 1

(Note) Power Director 3.X only supported on the Windows XP operating systems.

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Figure 3

C. Introduction of the capture sources device

Please check out your capture source. In general, the media sources comprise the following item:

1. Video Tape Recorder (VCR), V8 :

Connect the AV connector or video cable of the VCR to the Video In of the video capture card. And if your

VCR, V8 supports S-Video output, connect S-Video connector to the S-Video In port of the graphics card.

Connect the audio cable of the VCR, V8 to the Line In of the sound card.

If your sound card has no Line In port, try the Microphone port.

2. DV (recommend to use IEEE1394 card)

DV (Check out if the power of DV is turned on, and enter VCR mode; moreover, make sure FireWire

cable connect well.

Furthermore, when capturing media by VIVO-based graphics card, you could chose two ways(Note),

including Composite (COMP-IN) and SVideo(SVID-IN). Afterward please click the play button of

captured devices, and click the red REC button between Capture preview window and Capture

device selection area.

Figure 4

When you got the media you need, click the red REC button again to stop capturing. And then the media

clips will be loaded into Capture clips area automatically. (Figure 4)

Please verify how your cable connects. If the cable connects to SVID-IN port on HDTV/VIVO

cable, please press the "Video" button (Figure 2), and please select the "Video SVideo" item

(Figure 2); if it connects to COMP-IN port on HDTV/VIVO cable, please select the "Video

Composite" item (Figure 3).

Figure 2

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Once you click the "Edit" button to return Edit mode, the media clips will be loaded into Library

immediately.

(Figure. 4)

At this moment in time, you can expand a series of outstanding editing experience to fill you life with

boundless possibility.

(For more details about movie editing function of PowerDirector, please refer to user's guide, or visit

Cyberlink website for official technical support.)

COMP IN

SVID IN

Video-in

SVID OUT HDTV Component

D. HDTV / VIVO cable introduction

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3.1.5. Taskbar Icon

After installation of the display drivers, you will find a NVIDIA icon on the taskbar's status

area. Click this icon to open the control panel.

You can adjust the properties

of the graphics accelerator

from here.

Right click the icon.

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GeForce 7800 GTX properties

This page shows theAdapter, System and Driver

version information.

You can select other properties from the pop-out menu.

3.1.6. Display Properties Pages

To access Display Properties pages, right-click the GBT icon on the taskbar and select

Display Properties or right-click on Desktop and then select Properties. The Display

Properties dialog box shows the information of display adapter, color, the range of display

area, and the refresh rate.

Settings (Resolutions and Color depth for Windows)

You may adjust the screen resolution and color quality settings in this dialog box.

To access more advanced options, click the "Advanced" button.

After pressing the "Advanced" button in Settings, you'll see the Plug and Play Monitor and

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX dialog box. Click the GeForce 7800 GTX tab. (You can also click the

Nvidia icon on the taskbar and select Nvidia Display to access the GeForce 7800 GTX page.)

You can click the item to change the color quality.

You can move the slider to change the resolution.

Click the Advanced button for adapter and setting.

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nView allows you to connect separate displays to single

graphics card.

• nView Display mode: select your preferred nView display

modes here. Options: Single display/ Clone/ Horizontal

span/ Vertical span/ Dualview

• Primary/Secondary display: select a single display or

display pair. The selected display combination will appear

in the graphical representation below.

• Make this the primary display: Specifies that the display

corresponding to the icon you selected above is the

primary display.

• Click Apply to apply settings or click OK to save settings.

If TV is chosen as the display, you will need to select the

proper TV format. To do this, click "Device Settings" followed

by "Select TV format". Select the format for your television

and then click "Apply" followed by "OK".

nView Display properties

Performance and Quality Settings properties

The sliders lets to decide whether your application should use

quality or high performance texture.

• Application profiles: Select the application profile from the list

of profiles.

• Global Driver Settings: Select the Settings item and move

the slider below to set the degree of antialiasing to used in

Direct3D and OpenGL applications.

• Antialiasing settings: allows to set the degree of the Global

Driver Settings.

SLI multi-GPU properties

Your graphics card features NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface

(SLI) technology.

Add a second graphics card with SLI technology for significant

improvements in rendering performance.

Note: Only Windows XP operating system supports the dual

GPUs mode. Please do not enable SLI multi-GPU in

Windows 2000.

Display

Matrix

Model GV-NX78X512VP-B

CRT+TV Yes

CRT+DVI Yes

DVI+TV Yes

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