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Using X.info to display Axio information
Monitoring your Axio hardware operating
temperatures
As shown in the X.info Hardware section, each page displays the current and
maximum operating temperatures for your various Matrox Axio hardware
components. To avoid damage to your Axio components and/or computer
system, make sure that you don’t operate your Axio hardware at or near the
maximum temperature for a prolonged period of time. You should target your
Axio hardware to operate at least 10°C below the maximum operating
temperature.
You should monitor the temperature of your Axio hardware components
periodically and take measures as needed to lower the room temperature and/or
improve the ventilation in your Axio system. For details on how to ensure your
system is properly ventilated, see “Providing adequate ventilation” on page 10
for Matrox Axio HD or SD, and “Providing adequate ventilation” on page 32 for
Matrox Axio LE.
Enabling and disabling the Matrox
hardware-accelerated effects in Adobe
Premiere Pro
On Matrox Axio LE, the X.info program will provide a page to display hardware
information about your display card. On this page, you can also choose to enable
or disable the Matrox hardware-accelerated effects in Adobe Premiere Pro. If
your display card supports the Matrox hardware-accelerated effects,
Enable
Matrox hardware-accelerated effects in Adobe Premiere Pro
will be
selected by default. If you’re having problems with these effects, however, you
may want to clear this option to disable the effects.
To enable the Matrox hardware-accelerated effects in Adobe Premiere Pro you
must be using Axio LE with a display card that has at least 256 MB of onboard
memory and supports Microsoft DirectX 9. You can’t enable the
Matrox-hardware accelerated effects if Matrox has tested your display card and
determined that it doesn’t support these effects. You can check the Matrox Video
Support site for up-to-date information about the display cards tested by Matrox
at www.matrox.com/video/support.
Error notification
As well as temperature warnings, there are a number of other possible hardware
problems that X.info looks for (for example, if the fan on your X.effects card is
not working properly). Once X.info has detected a hardware problem, the
Matrox X.info Notification dialog box will be displayed to give you details of
the problem and further instructions. You will not be able to close this dialog box
until the problem has been resolved.
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