User’s Manual R AGP-V5200 Windows NT Workstation Graphics Accelerator • The Ultimate Windows NT Workstation Graphics Accelerator •• •• 1
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1 Contents ASUS Contact Information ............................................................................ 5 Communications Regulation Information ...................................................... 6 Chapter 1: Introduction ASUS AGP-V5200 Item Checklist ................................................................ 7 System Capabilities ........................................................................................ 8 System Requirements ................................................
Chapter 3: Software Installation Prerequisites ................................................................................................. 13 Installing the Software .................................................................................. 14 Resolutions and Color Depths ...................................................................... 15 3D Graphics and Double Buffering .............................................................. 16 Display Properties .................................
ASUS Contact Information ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Marketing Technical Support 150 Li-Te Road Peitou, Taipei, Taiwan 112 +886-2-2894-3447 telephone +886-2-2894-3449 fax info@asus.com.tw +886-2-2895-9254 fax +886-2-2896-4667 BBS tsd@asus.com.tw www.asus.com.tw ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL Marketing Technical Support 6737 Mowry Avenue Mowry Business Center, Building 2 Newark, CA 94560, USA +1-510-608-4555 fax info-usa@asus.com.
Communications Regulation Information Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: ■ This device may not cause harmful interference, and ■ This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
1 Introduction The ASUS AGP-V5200 board has been designed for high performance professional 3D graphics acceleration. This device combines workstation class 3D graphics acceleration and state of the art 2D performance. All 3D rendering operations are accelerated by 3Dlabs’s Dual GlintMX chipset including Gouraud shading, texture mapping, depth buffering, antialiasing and alpha blending.
System Capabilities ■ Onboard SVGA ■ 16MB VRAM as frame buffer and 80MB EDO DRAM as local buffer System Requirements ■ Suitable for use in Pentium II computers supporting the AGP bus ■ VGA, XGA, SuperVGA or Extended VGA compatible monitor ASUS AGP-V5200 Parts 80MB EDO RAM Local Buffer (Front & Back) 16MB VRAM Frame Buffer (Back) RAMDAC Glint MX Chipset SGRAM (Front & Back) Glint Gamma Processor VGA Chip Video Output Connector 8 •• •• ASUS AGP-V5200 •
ASUS AGP-V5200 Layout Front Shaded Items: EDO RAM R RAMDAC SGRAM GAMMA VGA JP1 ON OFF VGA Chip Glint Gamma Processor Glint MX Chipset Glint MX Chipset WITH FAN WITH FAN WITH FAN JP2 JP3 JP4 ON ON OFF OFF J3 BASE CLASS VGA P2 FIX ADDR Jumper Settings ON OFF OPEN: No Jumper Caps Jumpers are factory-set, as shown in this layout. Leave on these default settings, i.e., JP1, JP2, JP3, JP4: On; J3: All OPEN.
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2 Hardware Installation The instructions in this chapter discuss important static electricity precautions and procedures for installing the ASUS AGP-V5200 graphics accelerator to your computer. The board will have been configured for the options installed at the factory. Before installing the board, check that the jumper settings (see board layout) are correct and that you have taken note of the static electricity precautions. Static Electricity Precautions 1 Unplug your computer.
Installing the ASUS AGP-V5200 Installing the ASUS AGP-V5200 in your system is simple. To install the board, follow these steps: 1 Switch off your system and all peripheral devices. 2 Follow the static precautions described on the preceding page. 3 Remove the cover from your system. 4 Remove any existing video boards installed in the system. To do this, detach the monitor cable from an existing video board, remove the screw that holds the board in place and then pull it out from its expansion slot.
3 Software Installation This chapter describes the Windows NT 4.0 Display Driver and OpenGL Installable Client Driver and Heidi for the ASUS AGP-V5200. It also explains how to install these drivers. This document should be read in conjunction with the README.TXT file on the installation floppy disk, which contains details of the driver version and installation instructions. Prerequisites ■ Windows NT 4.0 (Build No. 1381), Service Pack 3 is recommended.
Installing the Software Before installing the software, turn off your computer and install the ASUS AGP5200 board according to the hardware installation instructions. Start your computer using the non-VGA mode option [from the OS Loader, highlight and choose the Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 option; the other option is Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 (VGA Mode)]. New display drivers cannot be installed when the machine has been started with the VGA Mode option.
Resolutions and Color Depths A full list of all modes is available through the Display Properties dialog box once the ASUS driver has been installed and the system restarted. Click the List all Modes option to get this list. By default, only resolutions capable of supporting double buffered OpenGL applications are selectable using the Display applet, unless a control panel setting is set to override this (see procedure later in this chapter).
3D Graphics and Double Buffering The display driver contains an extension to allow 3D applications and the OpenGL installable client driver (ICD) to drive the AGP-V5200. To provide double buffering capability for these 3D applications, the display driver offers three features. A screen-sized off-screen buffer is configured if the DoubleBuffer.NumberOfBuffers registry variable is 2 ( see explanation later). This buffer is used in 256-color, 32768-color and True Color modes to provide BitBlt double buffering.
