Nvidia GeForce4 MX Series User manual

User’s Manual
For
GeForce4 MX Series
DOC NO : 54-0NV18-01 Rev.A
02/09/03

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FCC Requirement
This device has been certified to comply with the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant to Subpart J of Part 15 of
the FCC Rules. See instructions if interference to radio reception is suspected.
WARNING: This equipment generates and uses radio frequency energy and, if not installed or used properly,
that is, in strict accordance with the manufacturer's instructions, may cause interference to radio or
television reception.
It has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B compliant device in accordance with the specifications
in Subpart J of Part 15 of FCC Rules, which are designed to provide reasonable protection against such interference in a
residential installation.
However, there is no guarantee that interference-will not occur in a particular installation.
If this equipment does cause 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 interference by one or more of the following measures:
˙Reorient the receiving antenna
˙Relocate the computer away from the receiver
˙Move the computer away from the receiver
˙Plug the computer into a different outlet so that the computer and the receiver are on different branch
circuits
˙Ensure that the card's mounting screws, attachment connector screws, and ground wires are tightly
secured
˙Ensure that slot covers are installed in all unused slots
If necessary, consult your dealer, service representative, or an experienced radio/television Technician for additional
suggestions.
The manufacturer is not responsible for any radio or TV interference caused by unauthorized modifications to this
equipment. It is the responsibility of the user to correct such interference.
The user may find the following booklet prepared by the Federal Communications Commission helpful:
How to Identify and Resolve Radio-TV Interference Problems.
This booklet is available from the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, Stock No. 004-000-00345-4.
NOTE: You must use shielded interface cables with a ferrite bead in order to maintain compliance
with the limits for a Class B device.
CAUTION: CHANGES OR MODIFICATIONS NOT EXPRESSLY APPROVED BY THE PARTY
RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLIANCE COULD VOID THE USER'S AUTHORITY TO
OPERATE THE EQUIPMENT

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Notice
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of the use or the inability to use the product or documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such
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year from the date of purchase. During the warranty period, a product determined by us to be defective in
form or function will be repaired or at our option, to be replaced at no charge. This warranty does not
apply if the product has been damaged by accident, abuse, misuse, or as a result of service or
modification other than by us.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction........................................................................................................1
1.1 Feature.............................................................................................................1
1.2 System Requirements......................................................................................2
1.3 Package Contents ............................................................................................ 2
2. Hardware Installation........................................................................................ 3
2.1 Adapter Configuration.....................................................................................3
2.2 Installing your VGA adapter...........................................................................5
3. Software Installation..........................................................................................6
3.1 Installing driver on Windows 98SE/ME..........................................................6
3.2 Installing driver on Windows 2000/XP........................................................... 6
3.3 Installing DirectX on Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP.......................................7
3.4 View User's manual.........................................................................................7
4. Optional Functions.............................................................................................8
4.1 nView Function instructions............................................................................ 8
4.2 TV-OUT Function Instructions.......................................................................9
4.3 How to change output to Digital Flat Panel?.................................................12
4.4 Installing Capture Driver (Optional for Video-In)......................................... 13
4.5 Color Correction Panel.................................................................................. 15
4.6 Video Mirror Function...................................................................................16
4.7 Desktop Utilities............................................................................................17
4.8 What is nView Desktop Manager?................................................................18
5. Display Information.........................................................................................25
5.1 Resolutions Supported................................................................................... 25
6. FAQ...................................................................................................................26

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1. Introduction
The NVIDIA graphics-processing unit (GPU) shakes up the gaming industry with
unprecedented visual effects and sizzling frame rates—injecting life into the
previously artificial world of computer-generated graphics. Powered by the new
NVIDIA new nfiniteFXTM engine and the Lightspeed Memory ArchitectureTM, the
GPU enables users to look into a rich environment instead of just a computer screen.
3D scenes have ambiance with the GPU because textures appear photo-realistic and
custom lighting heightens the drama. Characters and living creatures have organic
imperfections and unique expressions—you can see their personality.
Programmability and performance combine to provide the catalyst for this graphics
revolution.
NVIDIA's patented High-Resolution Antialiasing (HRAA) generates high-
performance samples at nearly four times the rate of new graphics, while delivering
the industry's best visual quality. The GPU delivers more than 960 billion operations
(BOPS)—more than twice the raw performance available to consumers in today's
GPUs. For more complex scenes and visuals, the new GPU advantage grows to as
much as a seven-fold increase in delivered performance.
1.1 Feature
□AGP 3.0 support for 8X and 4X and AGP 2.0 support for 4X, 2X, 1X.
□New nfiniteFX™ Engine for full programmability.
□256-bit 3D and 2D graphics accelerator.
□512K/1M Flash-ROM on board.
□Integrated hardware transform engine.
□Increases memory bandwidth efficiency for unmatched performance.
□Accuview Antialiasing™ technology.
□Full-compliant professional OpenGL 1.3 support. For Windows Operating system
□Drivers for Windows NT/9X/ME/2000/XP.
□MPEG-2 hardware decode, including Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT)
and motion compensation.
□DirectX and S3TC texture compression.
□Integrated second-generation transform and lighting (T&L) engines
□300 MHz pixel clock supports HDTV resolutions, such as 1920 x 1080 x 60 Hz or
1280 x 720 x 60 Hz.
□Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder supporting resolutions up to 1024 X 768.
□Integrated Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS) transmitter for
Digital Visual Interface (DVI) support with scaling and filtering for flat panels up
to 1280 X 1024.
□DVD-ready and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920 X 1080i Advanced
Television System Committee (ATSC) format.

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1.2 System Requirements
□Any motherboard with AGP bus.
□Microsoft Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP.
□DirectX 8 or higher and OpenGL Features.
1.3 Package Contents
□VGA board.
□Auto-Run Driver CD.
□User’s Manual.
□RCA Cable 1.8m. (For TV-OUT)
□S-Video to RCA cable. (For TV-OUT)
□1 to 3 cables. (For Video-In/Out)

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2. Hardware Installation
2.1 Adapter Configuration
VGA Card Specification
VGA Card Specification

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Low-Profile VGA Card Specification
Low-Profile VGA Card Specification

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2.2 Installing your VGA adapter
1. Power off your computer, remove its outside cover, and then assert yourself by
touching the power supply of your computer.
Note: Before installing your new VGA card, you must first set the VGA
option to either Standard VGA or Standard Display VGA.
2. Remove your old graphics card, and install your new VGA card into the AGP
slot.
3. Align and secure the mounting bracket of your new VGA card to your computer
and replace your computer cover.
4. Connect your monitor cable to the DB-15 connector at your new VGA card.
5. Power on your computer.
Turn Off
Turn Off
!!! Caution !!!
Before you turn on your system,
you have to be sure the VGA card
is setup already and all the cables
are connected.
DO NOT connect / disconnect
TV-out cable when your TV or
PC is Power On.
AGP mainboard
PCI slot
AGP Slot
AGP series product
AGP mainboard
PCIslot
PCI series product

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3. Software Installation
After inserting VGA card into port, please turn on PC and new hardware will be
automatically detected.
Notice :
Auto-Run CD will auto-detect your VGA and TV card devices. Therefore,
it might show more than one device in the first installing window.
Otherwise, Auto-Run CD will skip the first installing window when it
only detects one device. Please select one installation of the devices that
is proper for this product.
3.1 Installing driver on Windows 98SE/ME
Please set the VGA card as “Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)”. When it
done, Windows system will ask you to restart it, please choose “No”. Then you
should follow the next step.
1. Insert the AutoRun CD-ROM driver (wait a few seconds). You will see “VGA
Installer” window that will be shown on the screen. If it does not display, please
brow CD and double click “AutoRun.exe”.
2. Click-on
“Install Driver” to install the VGA driver.
3. After the installation is complete, the system will ask you whether you want to
restart your computer now. Click “Yes”, to reboot your system and activate the
program.
3.2 Installing driver on Windows 2000/XP
Please set the VGA card as “Video Controller (VGA Compatible)”. When it done,
Windows system will ask you to restart it, please choose “No”. Then you should
follow the next step.
1. Insert the AutoRun CD-ROM driver (wait a few seconds). You will see “VGA
Installer” window that will be shown on the screen. If it does not display, please
brow CD and double click “AutoRun.exe”.
2. Click
“Install Driver” to install the VGA driver.
3. If you see the “Digital Signature Not Found” this dialog box please click “Yes”.
4. When asked if you want to restart your PC, click “OK” to finish the installation
and reboot your Windows.

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3.3 Installing DirectX on Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
When the system restart after finishing VGA driver setup, please install better
DirectX version than that on your system.
1. Double click CD-ROM icon to let it AutoRun. The “VGA Installer” will be
shown again.
2. Click
“Install DirectX” and you will see a “Installer” dialog, and click “OK” to
show next page.
3. Click
“Yes” to continue.
4. Click-on
“ReInstall DirectX” to install the DirectX program.
5. When it is done, please click “OK” to reboot windows.
3.4 View User's manual
Click “User’s Manual” to view detailed information regarding the various
Drivers/Programs and FAQ located on the CD.

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4. Optional Functions
Notice : Following of functions are optional. This product may not support
those functions. Therefore, please check out the features of this
product first which are on the paper user’s manual.
4.1 nView Function instructions
4.1.1. Clone mode
1. A. You can click “Clone” to add second
device Output of clone.
B. Click
“OK” or “Apply” to switch your
display mode.
2. Windows will ask you to keep your setting.
Please click “Yes” to finish switching.

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4.2 TV-OUT Function Instructions
4.2.1. How to enable the TV-OUT function
Warning:
The VGA card needs to see real 75 ohms AV input. Connect the
signal cable between TV-OUT of VGA and TV's Video input and
turns on the TV before launch “Display Properties”. Otherwise
the TV-out function would be gray and un-selectable.
1. Set the correct jumper at your VGA card for TV formats (PAL BG/NTSC….).
2. Boot-up the system from monitor.
3. To Connect the signal cable between TV-OUT of VGA and TV’s Video input and
turn on the TV.
4. After launch
“display properties” then:
A. Select
“Settings” tab
B. Click
“Advanced…”
C. Select
“nView” tab
D. Select “Device Setting”
E. Select “Select Output
Device”
F. Click
“Advanced….”

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4.2.2. How to use TV-out cables correctly?
1. Power off your PC and TV first.
2. Connect the signal cable to the Video input at your TV from your VGA card, and
then power on your PC and TV.
Caution: Before you power on your
system, you have to be sure the VGA
card is setup correctly and all the
cables are connected.
DO NOT connect / disconnect TV-out
cable when your TV or PC is Power
On.
4.2.3. How to change TV setting?
1. You can click “TV” to switch VGA output
to TV.
A. Click “Change Format” to select which
standard TV you want.
When you select “Make this format the
power-up default”; the System will
change BIOS default to the format, when
you boot-up next time.
Turn Of
f
Turn Of
f

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B. Click “Video output format” to select
output from Composite or S-Video.
C. Click “OK” to switch your display
mode.
D.
Click “Yes” to confirm desktop setting.
4.2.4. How to adjustment screen position?
1. Click on
“Display” of Control Panel. Select
“Device Selection” tabs and click “Device
Adjustments”. You will see the windows.
A. When the output of your VGA is set to
Monitor, You can click “Device Setting”
to adjust the screen position.
WARNING:
The Monitor display may become
scrambled if you adjust the screen
position over the required range.

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4.3 How to change output to Digital Flat Panel?
1. A. You can click “Digital Flat Panel” to
switch VGA output to Digital Flat Panel.
B. Click “OK” or “Apply” to switch your
display device.
2. Click
“OK” to make sure.
3. Windows will ask you to keep this setting.
Click “Yes” to finish setting.
Note : The function is just for output device with DVI connector.

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4.4 Installing Capture Driver (Optional for Video-In)
If your VGA board support video in you can select “install capture driver”.
4.4.1. Capture Tool
Execute
“AMCAP.EXE”.
4.4.2. Capture Setting
1. File
A. Set Capture File
Click–on to set the filename of the
captured video file.
B. Allocate File Space
Click–on to set the capture file size, in
MB.
C. Save Captured Video As
Click–on to save A.AVI file using a
different filename.

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2. Options
A. Preview
Click –on preview to start.
B. Audio Format
Click–on to select the AVI
audio-sampling format that is installed in
your system.
C. Video Capture Filter
Video decode to set the optional “Video
Proc Amp” you can change the
Brightness, Contrast, Saturation or Hue by
using the various scroll bars and viewing
the effect on your video monitor.
D. Video Capture Pin
This function is to change the video image size.
E. Video Crossbar
This function is to select the “Video Input Source”: “Video S-Video In”,
“Video TV Tuner (Optional)” or “Video Composite In”.
F. TV Tuner (This function is only for product with Tuner)
This function is to select the channel what you want to watch.
3. Capture
A. Start Capture
This function is to start capture.
B. Capture Audio
Selecting the item is to let you to capture
with audio.
C. Master Stream
You can choose master stream between
“None”, “Video” and “Audio”.
D. Set Frame Rate
This function is to set frame rate.
E. Set Time Limit
This function is to set capture time.

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4.5 Color Correction Panel
4.5.1. Color Correction Settings
If you are using a GeForceX GPU-based card, another non-nView nVIDIA
GPU-based card, or have not enabled nView on your system yet, follow these
steps:
!"Right click from the Windows desktop to display the context menu, click
Properties, the Settings tab, and the Advanced button.
!"Click the Color Correction tab to display the nVIDIA Color Correction panel.
If you are using a nView-based card, have nView enabled, and want to access
the Color Control Panel from the nView panel, follow these steps:
!"Open the nView control panel.
!"To access the context menu, right click on a monitor icon that appears on the
nView panel.
!"
Select Color Correction from the context menu.
1. Open Color Correction
A. Active Color Channel: Allows you
to select the color channel controlled
by the sliders. You can adjust the
red, green or blue channels
individually or all three channels at
once.
B.
Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma
Controls: The slider controls allow
you to adjust the brightness, contrast,
or gamma values for the selected
color channel.
C. Diagonal Line/Curve: A graphical representation of the color curve. This
curve will change in real time as you adjust the contrast, brightness or
gamma.
D. Selecting Automatically apply these settings at startup automatically
restores the color adjustments you have made here when Windows is
restarted.
2.
Note: If your computer is running on a network, the color will be adjusted
after you have logged on to Windows.

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4.6 Video Mirror Function
4.6.1. Video Mirror mode
Video Mirror is a nView feature that allows a video or DVD application to mirror
its playback in full-screen mode on any one of the connected display devices.
For Video Mirror functionality, set your nView panel to one of these modes:
•Windows XP/2000 Clone or Windows XP DualView.
•Windows 9X/ME Clone or Extended Desktop.
1. Open the DVD or video application that you want to view.
2. A. Enable Overlay Controls
B.
Enable video overlay zoom: Click
this check box and click Apply to
use the Zoom control slider to zoom
in (out) on a specific area of the
video output (overlay) on your
screen. Using the diagram of the
screen regions shown on the Overlay
Controls panel, you can select the
area of the video screen you would
like to zoom. Once selected, you can
zoom to that portion of the screen by
moving the Zoom Control slider
between the Out and In range.
3. Be sure to click Apply whenever you make any changes to the control panels.
If changes do not take effect (the controls have no effect on the video) after
you click Apply, close the video overlay and then re-open it.