User manual ASUS 3DPV3000

[. . . ] R 3DexPlorer 3000 ® 3DP-V3000 Graphics Card USER'S MANUAL Hardware & Video Drivers USER'S NOTICE No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ASUS PROVIDES THIS MANUAL "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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[. . . ] Built-in VIP Bus Connectors for TV Tuner, Video Capture, MPEG-1, and MPEG-II Acceleration for Windows 95 APIs, including Direct3D and DirectDraw (+ VPE) Acceleration for WinNT APIs, including Direct3D, DirectDraw, OpenGL MCD Massive array of floating point Geometry Processing Units 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw Acceleration Video Acceleration (including acceleration for MPEG-I, MPEG-II, and Indeo) X and Y up and down video scaling 230MHz Palette-DAC 4MB 128-bit 100MHz SGRAM frame buffer interface with 1. 6GB/s bus bandwidth Excellent performance at high resolutions and color depths IMPORTANT!External devices and ASUS Video cards both have NTSC and PAL versions. You must make sure that all your devices and the ASUS Video card are of the same type or else you will not have video capabilities. ASUS 3DP-V3000 User's Manual II. Hardware Installation ASUS 3DP-V3000 Layout VIP Connector A VGA BIOS 4MB SGRAM Memory CCD / camcorder input (RCA) (optional) Tuner/TV Box/SVHS In (7pin) (optional) II. Installation Layout 8 VGA Monitor Output (15pin) (standard) SVHS / TV output (4pin) (optional) composite / TV output (RCA) (optional) VIP Connector B SGS-Thomson Riva 128TM 3D Chipset NOTE: The input and output connectors are optional. If either the input and output connectors are not available, the respective Video Utility will also not be available. ASUS 3DP-V3000 User's Manual II. Hardware Installation ASUS 3DP-V3000 Connection Examples · Camcorder · Video Cassette Player · Laser Disc Player · Other Video Devices With ASUS Tuner Box: · TV / FM Tuner S-Video or Tuner Box Plug Composite (RCA) Input RCA Plug Video Input · Computer Monitor · Video Projector · Other VGA Compatible devices VGA Output 15-Pin VGA Plug S-Video Output · Camcorder · Video Cassette Recorder · Television · Other Video Displaying or Recording Devices S-Video Plug Composite (RCA) Output RCA Plug NOTES: · ASUS Video cards come in either NTSC or PAL standards. · You must use the same standard for all devices. CATV ASUS TV/FM Tuner Box ASUS 3DP-V3000 User's Manual 9 II. Computer boards and components contain very delicate Integrated Circuit (IC) chips. To protect the computer board and other components against damage from static electricity, you must follow some precautions. Make sure that you unplug your power supply when adding or removing expansion cards or other system components. Restart your computer -- the ASUS 3DP-V3000 graphics card should be automatically detected and the display drivers automatically updated. ASUS 3DP-V3000 User's Manual III. Windows 95 Device Connection Notes: Monitor Out and Video Out (optional) NOTE: There is a limitation in the signal output. To use another output device, power off your system, disconnect the current output device and connect the other output device, then power on your system. Video In (optional) Connect your input device(s) and then run the program "ASUS LIVE3000" under Windows 95 in order to see the external input device(s). See Section III for instructions on installation. ASUS 3DP-V3000 User's Manual 11 III. Installation for an Installed ASUS 3DP-V3000 "New hardware found" refers to the prompt for drivers when installing Windows 95 with the ASUS 3DP-V3000 VGA card already installed. This Manual assumes that your CD-ROM disc drive is drive D: and that Windows 95 is in C:\windows. Replace either with the actual location, if necessary. 1. 1 Windows 95 When installing Windows 95, a New Hardware Found window will appear: Select Do not install a driver and follow the steps on the next page. Windows 95 Display Driver 12 1. 2 Win95 OSR 2. 0/2. 1 When installing Windows 95 OSR 2. 0/2. 1, the Update Device Driver Wizard window will appear: This wizard will complete the installation of the Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA). Windows 95 Insert the ASUS 3DP-V3000 installation CD with your current VGA card. Click Install 3DP-V3000 Display Driver and follow the installation steps. The Setup program window appears. The Features window will be displayed. Click Next > to continue with the Setup program. [. . . ] Click Install Windows 3. x Display Driver and follow the installation steps. V. Windows 3. x Installation in Win3. x 22 ASUS 3DP-V3000 User's Manual V. Installation of Video for Windows For Software MPEG support in Windows 3. x, you must first install Microsoft Video for Windows, then you may install your own MPEG Video Player. NOTE: Part of the driver's code is written with 32bit API, which will need the Win32s Runtime Library to be executable. [. . . ]