Jaton Video-107PCI-3D User manual

Video-107PCI-3DVideo-107PCI-3D
multimedia accelerator
User Manual
version 3.00
Copyright © 1999 Jaton Corporation, USA.

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NOTICE
The information in this document is subject to change in order to
improve reliability, design, or function without prior notice and does not
represent a commitment on the part of the company. In no event will the
company be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or
consequential damages arising out of the use or the inability to use the
product or documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such
damages. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in
any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the
company.
May 1999, Rev. A

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Contents
1. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................5
2. FEATURES.....................................................................................................6
2.1 HIGH PERFORMANCE RCADE3D™ ACCELERATOR..............................6
2.2 TRUEVIDEO® SCALING PROCESSOR........................................................7
2.3 MEMORY INTERFACE.................................................................................8
2.4 CRT INTERFACE..........................................................................................8
2.5 OVERVIEW....................................................................................................8
2.6 SYSTEM FEATURES.....................................................................................9
2.7 HIGH PERFORMANCE 64-BIT 2D GUI.......................................................9
2.8 HIGHLY INTEGRATED RAMDACTM & CLOCK SYNTHESIZER.......10
2.9 FULL FEATURE HIGH PERFORMANCE 3D ENGINE..............................10
2.10 TRUEVIDEO® PROCESSOR.....................................................................11
2.11 VERSATILE FRAME BUFFER INTERFACE.............................................12
2.12 HI-RES AND HI-REF DISPLAY SUPPORT .............................................12
2.13 CRT POWER MANAGEMENT (VESA DPMS)......................................12
2.14 COMPLETE HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY.........................................13
3. CHECK LIST...............................................................................................13
4. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS......................................................................13
5. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION....................................................................13
6. HARDWARE INSTALLATION..................................................................14
6.1 INSTALLATION PROCEDURES.................................................................14
6.2 STEPS:.........................................................................................................15
7. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION..................................................................15
7.1 MICROSOFT WINDOWS®98.....................................................................15
7.1.1 Microsoft Windows®ME................................................................17
7.1.2 Microsoft Windows® NT™4.0......................................................18
7.1.3 Microsoft Windows

2000/XP......................................................20
8. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE......................................................................20
8.1 TIPS..............................................................................................................23
8.2 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ).............................................23
9. VIDEO MODE TABLE................................................................................25

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9.1 STANDARD MODES...................................................................................25
9.2 EXTENDED MODES...................................................................................26
10. PINOUT AND SYNC FREQUENCIES...................................................29
10.1 ANALOG COLOR DISPLAY PINOUTS (DB 15)......................................29
10.2 CONVERSION TABLE: PIN ADAPTERS.................................................29
10.3 9-TO-15 PIN CONVERSION TABLE.........................................................30
10.4 ANALOG VIDEO SIGNALS.......................................................................30
11. FCC SHIELDED CABLE WARNING......................................................30
11.1 TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................31
11.2 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ............................................................................32
12.LIMITED WARRANTY...........................................................................32
12.1 OTHER LIMITS.........................................................................................32
12.2 EXCLUSIVE OBLIGATION.......................................................................33
12.3 OTHER STATEMENTS............................................................................33
12.4 TERMS AND CONDITIONS......................................................................33
12.5 SERVICES AGREEMENT:..........................................................................34
12.6 ENTIRE OBLIGATION..............................................................................34
13.REDUCING WARRANTY CLAIM REJECTIONS................................34

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1. Introduction
The Video-107PCI -3D brings to the PC unparalleled
price/performance 3D graphics. With rCADE3D™ acceleration for
pipelined single cycle graphics engines, 3D games can now take
advantage sideband addressing.
The Video 107PCI integrates the advanced rCADE3D™ 3D/2D
Accelerator with graphics, video, and digital TV into a single chip
solution. The rCADE3D™ combines advanced per pixel 3D setup and
rendering with 2D graphical user interface (GUI) acceleration. For
high-speed low latency access, the Video-107PCI -3D fetches textures
stored in up to 8Mbytes of local memory.
The Video-107PCI -3D is a highly integrated display control device that
incorporates a 64-bit 3D/2D graphic engine and video accelerator with
advanced video capability. It provides a flexible and high performance
solution for graphics and video playback acceleration for various color
depth and resolution modes.
The Video-107PCI -3D supports a video playback, or decompressed
video streams to be overlaid with a graphics stream of mixed color
depth displays.
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2. Features
2.1 High Performance rCADE3D™ Accelerator
• Single Cycle Pipelined Engine
• Per Pixel Mip-Mapping
• Multiple Levels of Details (LOD)
• 1/16TH Sub-Pixel Precision
• 32-bit Color Rendering
• Perspective Correct Textures
• 4Kbyte Texture Cache
• DirectDraw™ acceleration
• Multiple Buffering
2.1.1.1.1 Setup Engine
− 32-bit IEEE Floating Point Input Date
− Slope and vertex calculations
− Back Facing Triangle Culling
− 1/16 Sub-Pixel Positioning
− Deep Command List
− Flexible Vertex Buffers
− Triangle Strips and fans
2.1.1.1.2 Rendering Engine
− Gourard and Flat Shading
− Scene Anti-Aliasing
− OpenGL compliant blending for fog and depth
cueing
− 16-bit Z-buffer

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2.1.1.1.3 Texturing Engine
− Anistropic, Tri-Linear, Bi-Linear, point-Sampled
Filtering
− Mip-Mapping with 11 Levels-Of-Detail
− Perspective Correction
− Color Key and Alpha Blending
− 8-bit per pixel Palletized Textures
− 16/32-bit per pixel Non-Palletized Textures
− Texture Special Affects: Mirror, Clamp, Warp
− DirectX 6 Texture Compression
2.1.1.1.4 2D GUI Engine
− 8/15/16/24/32-bit per pixel color formats
− 256 Raster Operations (ROPs)
− DirectDrawTM acceleration
− BitBLTs, lines, polygons, fills, patterns, clipping,
bit masking
− Panning, scrolling, clipping, color expansion,
sprites
− 32x32 and 64x64 Hardware Cursor
− DOS graphics and text modes
2.2 TrueVideo® Scaling Processor
• Horizontal & vertical interpolation usingTrident Edge
Recovery Technique (TERT)
• Edge smoothing
• Dual frame buffer apertures
• Vertical Blank Interval for IntercastTM
• Overlay different video and graphic color depths

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• Two scalers and color space converters (CSC) for
independent windows
2.3 Memory Interface
• 2/4Mbyte Frame Buffer
2.4 CRT Interface
• DDC2B
• VESATM DPMS
2.5 Overview
The Video-107PCI -3D is a SGRAM/SDAM based, fully
integrated CRT and TV 64-bit 2D/3D Accelerator for PCI
systems. It is a high performance chip, offering high-speed
3D image processing in full compliance and compatibility
with IBM® VGA and VESA™ extended VGA.
The Video-107PCI-3D, equipped with single-cycle 3D GUI
Engine, pipelines 3D rendering process architecture in
hardware, providing real-time interactions with solid 3D
models in CAD/CAM, 3D modeling, and 3D games. It
supports all key 3D rendering operations, including: Gouraud
shading for smooth object surfaces, texture mapping for
realistic object textures, 16-bit hardware Z-buffering for fast
3D depth calculations, and Alpha Blending for transparency
effects.
Video-107PCI -3D ‘s highly innovative design, a full 64-bit
memory interface with the high performance graphics engine,
dramatically improves GUI functions and significantly
promotes overall system operation.
The Video-107PCI -3D supports planar video format for
MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and video playback. Advanced features of
the Video-107PCI-3D, such as color space conversion, Video
Module Interface (VMI), a 24-bit True Color DAC, and triple
clock synthesizers allowing performance at peak levels.

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2.6 System Features
The Video-107PCI -3D’s main system features include:
• High Performance single cycle GUI
• Highly Integrated RAMDAC™ and Triple Clock
Synthesizer
• Full Feature High Performance 3D Graphics Engine
• Hardware implementation of motion compensation
• TrueVideo® Processor
• DirectDraw ™ and DirectVideo™ Hardware Support
• Flexible Frame Buffer Memory Interface
• Advanced Mobile Power Management
• CRT Power Management (VESA™ DPMS)
2.7 High Performance 64-bit 2D GUI
The 64-bit graphics engine of the Video-107PCI -3D
significantly improves graphics performance through
specialized hardware that accelerates the most frequently
used GUI operations and matches the high-speed
requirements of CPUs. Functions directly supported in
hardware include: BitBLTs, image and text transfer, line draw,
short stroke vector draw, rectangle fills, and clipping.
The graphics engine supports 256 Raster Operations
(ROPs) for up to 32-bit packed pixel graphic modes. The
ROP3 Processor in the Video-107PCI -3D is able to perform
Boolean functions which allow many additional operations,
including transparency, pattern masking, color expansion
alignment, and pattern enhancement. Additionally, the
graphics engine features linear display memory addressing,
accelerated color expansion modes for graphics text
procession, and memory-mapped I/O registers on the
graphics engine for faster access time.
A 64-bit internal data bus and a four-color hardware
cursor/pop-up icon, operating up to a 128x1128x2 pixel

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image, which off-loads the CPU, optimize graphic functions.
The hardware cursor mechanism can also be used to display
patterns stored in the system memory. This pop-up icon is
very useful to display user-friendly information instantly
through simple hot key operations.
This advanced function combination allows significant
performance increases over standard Super VGA designs
and provides outstanding graphics acceleration on GUIs,
such as Microsoft ® Windows 95.
2.8 Highly Integrated RAMDACTM & Clock Synthesizer
The highly integrated design of the Video-107PCI -3D offers a
“no TTL” solution for cost-effective, high-performance
multimedia subsystem designs for the IBM ® PC and
compatible notebooks. The 64-bit memory data bus
supporting SDRAM and SGRAM memory provides faster data
transfer rates for improved system throughput. The Video-
107PCI -3D has a built-in, high speed RAMDAC™. The
RAMDAC™ is composed of one 256x24 and one 256x18
color lookup table and a triple loop frequency synthesizer,
providing the read/write timing control for the Frame Buffer
Memory and the refresh of the TV/CRT display.
Video processor features include: on-chip hardware Color
Space Conversion (CSC) for faster data conversion on the fly,
Horizontal/Vertical (H/V) scaling with interpolation, edge
recovery algorithm, gamma correction, and overlay control
with different color depths from graphics. The Video-107PCI -
3D also includes a fully integrated GUI accelerator, read
cache, and command FIFO that optimize memory bandwidth
and maximize graphics performance.
2.9 Full Feature High Performance 3D Engine
The Video-107PCI -3D is equipped with an advanced
Graphics Drawing, Single Cycle 3D Graphics Engine that
performs premium 3D functions at a high level of more than
1M triangles per second. The 3D engine supports Microsoft ®
Direct3D. The 3D Engine is set up to off-load the CPU from
major 3D tasks including slope calculation, sub-pixel
positioning, and Tri-striping. By balancing 3D pipeline and
reducing parameter passing, the Video-107PCI -3D
approaches the high levels of performance. The 3D engine is
integrated with a triangle set-up engine that sets up triangles
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accomplishes various functions for 3D rendering. Gouraud
shading provides smooth shading for colors across
surfaces, perspective correction texture mapping to correct
texture data based on the perspective, bi-linear texture
filtering for interpolating, alpha blending to compensate
colors for the opacity of two colors blended, Z-buffering (16-
bit/24-bit), video texturing to overlay 2D video play-back onto
3D images, fogging to simulate weather effects, palletized
texture mapping 8-bit for memory and bandwidth reduction,
and anti-aliasing to reduce or eliminate jaggies resulted from
alias rendering. The 3D engine also works with the APM
system, conserving power while the 3D operations are
suspended.
2.10 TrueVideo® Processor
The Video-107PCI-3D, with an integrated Video Display
Engine, supports apertures on the PCI bus which enables
independent graphic and video data to be transported
simultaneously to and from different memory areas and
greatly accelerates the performance of both DirectDraw™ and
DirectVideo™. The video image is stored in the off-screen
memory and is retrieved by the Video Display Processing
block for TrueVideo® processing.
With the help of DirectDraw™ acceleration for sprites, page
flipping, double buffering, and color keying, TrueVideo®
processing is performed by utilizing Trident’s proprietary
edge recovery algorithm for sharper line visibility, de-
interlacing, anti-tearing, multitap horizontal filtering, dithering,
and scaling operations with bilinear interpolation in both
horizontal and vertical directions. The linear scaling permits
zoom in/out to any size without any restrictions. In addition,
the on-chip hardware Color Space Conversion (CSC)
accelerates conversion for 16 bit YUV pixels into linear true
color 32 bit RGB pixels on the fly. The additional X and Y
minifiers are capable of shrinking the video images to any
linear fractions, which saves bus bandwidths and memory
space. The YUV planar of the Video-107PCI -3D supports a
YUV 420 format that can remove redundant video stream
decoding procedures. The color and luminance control
provided by the Video-107PCI -3D offers color
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2.11 Versatile Frame Buffer Interface
The Video-107PCI -3D features a versatile frame buffer
interface, providing SDRAM/SGRAM interface flexibility to meet
the demand of high-end and mid-end PC desktop integrates.
Optimized performance can be achieved with the single cycle
memory bus interface using programmable DRAM timing.
The display queue has been increased to reduce the
frequency of the memory bus requests, optimizing the
memory bus efficiency for the graphic controller. The
employment of SGRAM/SDRAM provides an abundant
memory bandwidth for both high-resolution display and
playback.
The Video-107PCI -3D has access to system memory with
sideband addressing. In the execute mode, the Video-107PCI
-3D is able to use both the graphics memory and the system
memory as the primary graphics memory. As a result, 3D
rendering performance and quality are greatly enhanced.
2.12 Hi-Res and Hi-Ref Display Support
The Video-107PCI -3D display enhancements dramatically
improve CRT resolution. These enhancements include
support of non-interlaced 1024x768x16M, 800x600x16M, and
640x480x16M colors for “full spectrum” color. Extended text
modes of 80 or 132 columns by 25, 30, 43, or 60 rows
provide an extended graphics area frequently used in many
spreadsheet and database applications. Software drivers that
provide a “ready-to-go” solution, minimizing the need for
additional driver development, support extended graphics
and text modes.
When this function is enabled, a selected portion of a large
image can be shown on a smaller display. The image can
also be moved across the whole screen, either up or down.
The Video-107PCI -3D is able to automatically detect DDC
monitors with I²C signaling.
2.13 CRT Power Management (VESA DPMS)
The Video-107PCI -3D conforms to standard power
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The Video-107PCI -3D supports four states of VESA™
Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS), which
decreases monitor power consumption after timeout periods.
VESA™ DPMS power down states (ready, standby, suspend,
and off) specify HSYNC and VSYNC signals to control the
monitor power down state.
2.14 Complete Hardware Compatibility
The Video-107PCI -3D is fully compliant and supports
VESA™ DDC and VAFC standards. The Video-107PCI -3D is
100% IBM® VGA compatible on the BIOS and Drivers,
allowing full compatibility with virtually any VGA application
software.
Video-107PCI -3D provides hardware support to DirectDraw™,
offering high speed game graphics on Windows® .
3. Check List
The package you have purchased should contain the following:
þ Video-107PCI-3D Multimedia accelerator
þ Software and Document CD-ROM
þ Quick Start Guide (printed)
4. System Requirements
• Intel or compatible Pentium® system with PCI Bus Extension
Slot
• CD-ROM drive, Quad speed or faster
• Hard Drive with at least 10MB Free space
• MS Windows®95/98, Windows® NT4.0
5. Hardware Description

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DB15VGA
Adapter's Plate
Display Memory
Trident
Blade3D 9880
CON2
2
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PCB LAYOUT & SPECIFICATION
Product / PCB Reversion
82107K
82107M
Video-107PCI-3D
Video-107PCI-3D
Chipset
Trident9880
Trident9880
Memory Model / Size
1M*16x4
1M*32x2
8MB
8MB
PCI Bus
6. Hardware installation
6.1 Installation Procedures
!! WARNING !!
Discharge static electricity by
touching the GROUNDsuch as
metal part of your case connected
with good power ground before
you handle the electronic circuit
boards.
The manufacturer assumes no liability for any damage, caused
directly or indirectly, by improper installation of any components by
unauthorized service personnel. If you do not feel comfortable
performing the installation, consult with a qualified computer
technician.

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6.2 Steps:
1. Turn OFF all powers to your system, including any
peripherals (printer, external drives, modem, etc.).
2. Disconnect the power cord and the monitor cable from the
back of the computer.
3. Unfasten the cover mounting screws on your system and
remove the system cover. Refer to your system user manual
for instructions to determine the location of the mounting
screws.
4. Remove any graphics adapter that already installed on your
motherboard. Start by removing the screw that holds the
adapter-retaining bracket in place (keep this screw, you will
need it later). Then, gently pull straight up on the adapter card
itself, and remove it from the motherboard.
5. Refer to your computer system manual for the location of the
PCI bus expansion slots. Remove the retaining screw that
holds the slot cover in place. Slide the slot cover out and put
the screw aside (you will need it to secure the adapter).
If you just removed an existing graphics adapter and are not
going to use that expansion slot, you can install the slot cover
you just removed from the unused expansion slot to cover the
open hole.
6. To install the adapter in the selected expansion slot, carefully
line up the gold-fingered edge connector on the adapter
directly above the expansion slot connector on the
motherboard. Then press the adapter into place, completely,
with necessary but minimum pressure. DO NOT USE
excessive force. Use the (remaining) screw you removed to
secure the adapter-retaining bracket in place.
7. Replace the computer cover. Secure the cover with the
mounting screws you removed in Step 3.
You have now completed the installation of your new graphics adapter
on your system.
7. Software Installation
7.1 ÿÿ Microsoft Windows®98
This CD supports Windows®98 autorun feature. Start Windows® 98
with VGA or SVGA drive detected, Insert the display Driver CD into your
CD-ROM drive (e.g. X:).

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1. Autorun file pops up “Welcome” screen from the software
CD.
2. Click on the “Display Driver” selecting text to start the
installation.
3. Switch to “Settings” tab, then click on “ Advance” button.

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4. Click on “Change”, then “Have Disk”.
5. Browse to “X: \V-107\Win98\Jaton.INF” (X is the letter of
your CD-ROM drive), and click OK.
6. The display device selected “Video-107PCI-3D, Blade3D
9880 PCI/AGP” then press on OK button.
7. Close and apply to finish PCI’ s display driver installation.
8. Restart Windows to complete installation.
7.1.1 ÿÿ MICROSOFT WINDOWS® ME
The steps are as same as Windows®98’s installation, but the path for
subdirectory \V-107\WinMe\ is instead.

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7.1.2 ÿÿ MICROSOFT WINDOWS® NT™4.0
1. PRESS on “Display Driver” selecting text to start the installation.
2. SELECT the “Display” icon in control panel and then SELECT the
“Settings” page.
3. SELECT “Display Type...” button in the “Settings” page.
4. SELECT “Change...” button from the Adapter type section.
5. SELECT “Have Disk...” button from the Change Display page.
6. Windows NT 4.0 prompt you for the location where are those
files for video driver. INPUT the path or unfold with “X:\V-
107PCI\Winnt4\”. ( X: is the CD ROM drive where the Software &
Documents CD has been inserted.)
7. If the driver “Trident 3D Video Accelerator” is listed under the
Display list, SELECT the “OK” button to continue.
8. Once the driver files are copied, RESTART Microsoft Windows
NT 4.0 for the changes to take effect.
9. SELECT the desired color palette (the number of colors), desktop
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Display Properties and then SELECT the “Test” button in the
same page to determine whether your selection works properly.
SELECT “Apply” to active the selected mode.
7.1.3 ÿÿ MICROSOFT WINDOWS®2000
Start Windows® 2000 with VGA or SVGA drive detected, Insert the
display Driver CD into your CD-ROM drive (e.g. X:).
1. Autorun file pops up “Welcome” screen from the software
CD.
2. Click on the “Display Driver” selecting text to start the
installation.
3. Switch to “Settings” tab, then click on “ Advance” button.
4. Click on “Change”, then “Have Disk”.
5. Browse to “X: \V-107\Win2k\Jaton.INF” (X is the letter of
your CD-ROM drive), and click OK.
6. The display device selected “Video-107PCI-3D, Blade3D
9880 PCI/AGP” then press on OK button.

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7. Close and apply to finish PCI’ s display driver installation.
8. Restart Windows to complete installation.
7.1.4 ÿÿ MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP
WindowsXP detects your video card automatically, and placed a
current driver from its system folder without any screen messages. That
means you don’t needed to install video driver from its manufacturer,
Microsoft windows system automated performs the video driver install
and upgrade.
8. Technical Assistance
Q: Why is the display shifted or changed sizes when I switch
display modes?
Explain and Suggestion:
Some monitors lack auto-sizing features or just do not
synchronize properly to the video board output. In some cases,
horizontal and vertical display adjustments may be necessary.
Use the monitor control panel functions to adjust screen.
In other cases, mode type and refresh rate adjustments may be
necessary. Use the utility program, which provided by video card
manufacturer or production developer. To centering the display
with normal type (mode 3), and to reduce (decrease) the refresh
rate with the monitor’s specification.
Q: What kind monitors can display 800x600 mode or higher
resolution mode?
Explain and Suggestion:
To display 800x600 resolution at 60Hz refresh rate, the monitor
must be capable of synchronizing a 31.5KHz horizontal scan rate
(e.g., NEC 2A, 3D). At 72Hz refresh rate, the monitor must be
capable of synchronizing a 48.0KHz scan rate (e.g., Sony HG
1304, NEC 4D, 5D, Seiko 1450).
To display 1024x768-interlaced mode, the monitor must be
capable of synchronizing a 35.5KHz horizontal scan rate (e.g.,