Legend QDI RV2000 AGP User manual

QDI RV2000
AGP
3D Graphic Card

QDI RV2000 AGP
User’s Guide
Version 1.2
Copyright1998 LEGEND.QDI
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No part of this manual may be reproduced or transferred to other
media without permission from QDI.
Notice
QDIbelieves the information contained in this document is accurate and reliable.
However, QDIreserves the right to make corrections, improvements, or changes
to this document at any given time without prior notice.
Please refer to README file in the driver diskette for operating instructions and
other information updates.
Trademarks Acknowledgments
•MS-DOS, Windows, and DirectX are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation
•Pentium is a trademark of Intel Corporation
•OS/2, VGA are trademarks of IBM Corporation
All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

Contents
Introduction
1
Features................................................................................................1
System Requirements ..........................................................................2
Package Contents.................................................................................2
Software Upgrade ................................................................................2
Hardware Installation 3
Drivers Auto-Installation 5
Before you begin..................................................................................5
Operating System Requirements .........................................................5
Installation of RV2000 display drivers
for Windows 95/98/NT .......................................................................5
Configuring Windows 95 Driver.........................................................9
Configuring Windows NT 4.0 Driver...............................................12
Video-In drivers Installation 13
Running Video-In Software...............................................................16
BIOS Upgrade

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Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the QDI RV2000 AGP 3D Graphic
Card.
With Rendition V2200 True Media Accelerator built in, your QDIRV2000 combines outstanding 3D acceleration, excellent 2Dgraphics and superior video quality on a single board, providingyou with both high performance and satisfied quality in 3D gameand multimedia applications.
Features:
•AGP Bus, AGP V1.0 interface compliant.
•Rendition V2200 3D Accelerator embedded high
performance RISC processor.
•4MB 100MHz SGRAM on board, 800MB bandwidth.
•Excellent 2D graphics acceleration for business applications .
•Powerful hardware triangle engine, pixel engine and fill
engine, delivering advanced 3D features and 3D special
effects.
•High quality video playback MPEG-2 acceleration in
hardware.
High quality video-in (NTSC/PAL) supports video
conference application and full motion video recording
(optional).
Flicker free TV out (NTSC/PAL) with overscan
compensation for displaying games on large TV screens.
•230 MHz RAMDAC for high resolution, high color depth
and high refresh rate, displays up to 1600x1200 with 85 Hz.
•VGA fully compatible.
DPMS for power management support.
DDC2B for monitoring plug and play support.

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•Driver Auto-Installation for Window 95/98/NT.
•Drivers for major operation systems and APIs Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows NT4.0, DirectX5, OpenGL support,
etc.
Supports popular games with 3D acceleration and 3D special
effect.
System Requirements:
Computer :Uses mainboard with an AGP Bus slot.
Monitor :Standard VGA monitor. For receiving all the
benefits from the graphic card, a high
resolution multi-frequency monitor is needed.
Operating :Windows 95; Windows 98, Windows NT
System 4.0 etc.
Package Contents:
Before installing your QDI RV2000 graphic card, please check to
make sure your QDI RV2000 package is complete.
QDI RV2000 AGP graphic card.
Driver CD-ROM Disk.
User's manual.
Contact your dealer if you find anything missing or damaged.
Note! Graphic cards are sensitive to static charge. To avoid
damage that may occur by static charge, leave the graphic card
in its antistatic packaging until installation. Keep the packaging
for possible future transportation.
Software Upgrade
You can visit our web-site: http: // www.qdigrp.com /for BIOS,
drivers updates and other release information .

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Hardware Installation
Follow the detailed procedures described in this section for easy
installation of the QDI RV2000 Graphic card onto your computer
system. The only tool needed for installation is a screwdriver.
Note! Before installing the QDI RV2000 AGP card, touch a
metal surface of your computer to discharge yourself of static
charge, hold the graphic card by the edges be sure not to touch
the IC chips, leads or circuits.
1. Before opening the computer cover , be sure that the
power to the computer system unit and all devices
connected to it are turned off. Disconnect the computer
from the power supply.
2. In a typical PC computer all cover mounting screws are
located on the back of the computer. Remove these screws
and save them. Carefully remove the cover.
3. Remove an existing VGA card or disable the mainboard’s
VGA.

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4. Remove the AGP slot shield at the back of the computer by
removing its retaining screw and lifting it out. Save the screw.
5. Carefully insert the graphic card into the AGP slot by
holding the card at the top and gently pushing both ends
into the slot at the same time. Do not force the card into
the slot! If the card does not fit easily, pull it back, and try
again.
1. Secure the card with the screw removed in the above step.
2. Replace and secure the system cover.
3. Connect a VGA compatible or multi-frequency monitor
with the 15 pin video connector at the back of the
QDI RV2000 card.
4. Connect the computer to the power supply.

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Drivers Auto-Installation
Before you begin
All the installation instructions assumes that the
CD-ROM disk is located in drive D: and that Windows
95 is in C:\Windows. Replace either with the actual
location if necessary.
Operating System Requirements
For all AGP features benefits, use Windows 95 OSR2.1
or the later version. To install Windows 95 OSR2.1, first
install OSR2.0 then upgrade to OSR2.1 by installing
USBSUPP which is provided by Microsoft. You can
contact the distributor of Windows 95 OSR2 for
USBSUPP supplement.
Installation of RV2000 display drivers for
Windows 95/98/NT
The display drivers can be automatically installed into
Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT4.0.
1. Installing Standard VGA Driver
It is recommended that you first install Windows
95/98/NT with the RV2000 AGP card already installed.

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After the installation of Windows 95/98/NT, the default
VGA driver should have been installed first.
If Windows 95(OSR2) has been installed before the
installation of the RV2000 AGP card, the first time
Windows 95 runs with the RV2000, the Update Device
Driver Wizard window appears, click next (Do not click
Cancel , or your system will hang!). Then click finish to
install the standard VGA driver, direct the installation
path to your \windows\system directory if Windows 95
CD is requested. Follow the prompt, do not restart
Windows 95 then proceed to step 2. If using Windows
98/NT, this incident will not occur.
2. Installing the RV2000 driver
After inserting the auto-run RV2000 driver CD into the
CD ROM drive, a dialog box pops up as shown below.

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You can also run Auto.exe in the CD directly if auto-run
is not supported by your system.
Selecting ‘Install Display Driver’from the dialog box
with your mouse, will automatically install the RV2000
driver. When completed, a message box pops up,
prompting you to restart the computer. Press OK to
restart the computer.

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1. Installing DirectX
In windows 95, run auto.exe in the CD-ROM and select
‘Install DirectX’from the dialog box, then follow the
prompts to install DirectX.
Note: If you try to install DirectX in Windows 98 and
NT, a message box will popup, informing you that it is
unnecessary to install them in these two operation
systems. Please take note that the DirectX can only be
auto-installed in Windows English, Simplified and
Tradition Chinese versions. For the other language
versions, please direct the path to D:\DirectX5\Multi
Language and install the correspondent language
version manually. You can read the Readme file in this

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path to receive the name of corresponding installation
program.
Configuring Windows 95 Driver
To receive the optimum visual display and performance, configure
your Windows 95 driver once it is installed.
Click the right mouse button while the mouse is pointing at an
empty area of Windows 95 desktop and select Properties from
Display Properties Window, you can adjust screen resolution,
color depth, monitor setting, refresh rate, etc.
Refer to the sections below for a complete description of what
options are available for each configuration tab. After making your
changes, follow the on-screen prompts to complete the
configuration.

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If you want to change the screen
resolution or color depth, click on
the Settings tab at the top of the
screen. This panel will now be
displayed. Change the screen
resolution using the “Desktop
area”slider on the right side of the
window. To change the color
depth of the screen use the “Color
palette”selector on the left side of
the window.
If you are not able to choose a
resolution that your monitor
supports, you may need to change
your monitor settings by clicking
the Advanced Properties button
and clicking the Monitor tab.
Click Change button for Monitor
Type. Click the Manufacturer and
Model that matches your monitor.
If your monitor brand is not
displayed, choose Standard
monitor and VGA model.
You can also change other settings. Click on the Verite tab at the
top of the window.

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Here, you can choose a refresh rate by clicking a button from the
upper left part of the panel. In general, the higher the refresh rate,
the better the display quality. Be sure your monitor can support the
refresh rate chosen!
For digital video playback, choose whether the Bilinear Filtering
should be enabled (“Always On”), never (“Always Off”), or only
when the frame rate being displayed is actually 30fps (“Auto”).
Make this selection in the upper right portion of the window. For
best digital video playback quality, we recommend the “Always
On”setting.
If you want to view the image or video on TV, connect your TV to
the video out connector (C-video or S-video) first, then choose “On”
in the TV-out options and choose NTSC or PAL to conform your
TV-Standard.
The next setting is “Gamma Correction.”Gamma correction is a
fairly complex notion. Simply put, it modifies color values to
compensate for the different characteristics of different monitors, 10

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is the default value. Increasing this value will make colors appear
brighter. Decreasing it will make colors appear darker. It is not
merely a brightness control, as the degree of its effect depends on
the original brightness of the particular color being drawn.
The last setting is “Vsync in Flip”. This allows you to send data to
the frame buffer during the VSYNC signal. When running
Direct3D Tunnel test at 60Hz refresh rate, we will be running at 60
fps. However, when running at 75Hz or 85Hz refresh rate, we will
get about half of the refresh rate, 37.5 fps or 42.5 fps, respectively.
By disabling this setting, we can achieve approximately the refresh
rate of 60Hz, 75Hz, or 85Hz because now the data does not wait for
the Vsync signal. Instead, as soon as the next data stream is ready,
it outputs to the frame buffer. In doing this, you will see some
tearing .
Configuring Windows NT 4.0 Driver
To configure your Windows NT 4.0 driver once it is installed,
follow the procedures listed below.
1. Right click on the Windows NT desktop and select
Properties.
2. From the Display Properties dialog box, you can change
your driver and monitor configurations. Click on the
Settings tab, located at the top of the dialog box, and
adjust the settings using the drop-down boxes and slider
bars.
3. Follow the on-screen prompts for completing Windows
NT 4.0 driver or monitor configuration.

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Video-In drivers Installation
Video-In is an optional feature, if this feature is included in your
RV2000, install the drivers for Video-In. Once you have installed
the Windows 95 drivers, please follow the next steps.
•Insert the CD-ROM disk into the CD-ROM drive. In
Windows 95, open the My Computerwindow and
double click on the Control Panelicon.
•In Control Panelwindow, double click on the Add New
Hardware icon. The Add New Hardware Wizard
window will appear. Click on Next to begin installing the
new hardware, then click on No to search for the new
hardware, and click on Next to continue.

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The next step is to select the type of hardware, you could
select Sound, video, and game controlleroption. Then
click on Next to continue.
When asked to select the manufacturer and model of the
hardware, click on Have Disk since the manufacturer and
model are not on the list. In the Install From Disk menu,
select the location of the drivers. Click on Browse, direct
the path to \itt of the CD-ROM, then click OK in the
Install From Diskwindow.

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At this point, the Select Devicewindows will prompt for
the model of the hardware and since we are installing only
one hardware, click OK to continue.
Then click on Finish to continue installing the software.
At this point, the video-in drivers are being installed onto
your system.

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Running Video-In Software
There is a file labled VpxTV-Ve.exe in the directory \itt of
your RV2000 CD-ROM disk. Copy this file to your hard
disk. Before running the software, you must connect either a
camera, VCR or DVD player to the Video-In connector (C-
video or S-video). Then run VpxTV-Ve.exe, change the
setting in Video-In menu as shown in the window below.