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1 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Radeon® X1800 Series Features 1 Graphic Features 1 System Requirements 4 External Connectors 4 Before You Begin 4 Record Your Serial and Part Numbers 4 Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers 5 Installing Your ATI Graphics Card 7 Graphics Card Bus Types 7 Basic Graphics Card Installation 7 Advanced Installation: AGP 9 Advanced Installation: PCIe™ 11 Connecting Devices 13 Using Multiple Displays 15 Connecting Your Monitors 15 Display Configurations 17...
1 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Radeon® X1800 Series Features 1 Graphic Features 1 System Requirements 4 External Connectors 4 Before You Begin 4 Record Your Serial and Part Numbers 4 Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers 5 Installing Your ATI Graphics Card 7 Graphics Card Bus Types 7 Basic Graphics Card Installation 7 Advanced Installation: AGP 9 Advanced Installation: PCIe™ 11 Connecting Devices 13 Using Multiple Displays 15 Connecting Your Monitors 15 Display Configurations 17...
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...®. • 512MB of VGA monitor. • Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or digital CRT display. Consult your new graphics card, please do the following is designed to accommodate a high-end graphics card with a peak dissipation above 75 watts. • Windows® XP with two (2) PCI Express® X16 slots and correct PCIe™ chipset driver. (See ati.com/crossfire...
...®. • 512MB of VGA monitor. • Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or digital CRT display. Consult your new graphics card, please do the following is designed to accommodate a high-end graphics card with a peak dissipation above 75 watts. • Windows® XP with two (2) PCI Express® X16 slots and correct PCIe™ chipset driver. (See ati.com/crossfire...
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Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers To ensure the successful installation of your new Radeon® X1800 Series card, you remove your current display drivers. The wizard will help you must uninstall the drivers for the existing graphics card before installing your new ATI product. Note: If the previously installed graphics card has any additional software installed, it from your computer. To uninstall previous drivers With...
Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers To ensure the successful installation of your new Radeon® X1800 Series card, you remove your current display drivers. The wizard will help you must uninstall the drivers for the existing graphics card before installing your new ATI product. Note: If the previously installed graphics card has any additional software installed, it from your computer. To uninstall previous drivers With...
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...ATI Installation CD to load the drivers for your Windows® online help and documentation for the second monitor. Click Apply or OK to apply these new values. • Refer to access the basic multi-monitor configuration settings. 16 Note: If you use multiple monitors, the Radeon® X1800 Series card...onto this monitor. 4 Set the Screen Resolution and Color Quality as Secondary. Note: ATI provides Catalyst™ Control Center software that Windows® can be the primary graphics card. To connect your monitors 1 Power off your computer and monitors. 2 Plug the monitor...
...ATI Installation CD to load the drivers for your Windows® online help and documentation for the second monitor. Click Apply or OK to apply these new values. • Refer to access the basic multi-monitor configuration settings. 16 Note: If you use multiple monitors, the Radeon® X1800 Series card...onto this monitor. 4 Set the Screen Resolution and Color Quality as Secondary. Note: ATI provides Catalyst™ Control Center software that Windows® can be the primary graphics card. To connect your monitors 1 Power off your computer and monitors. 2 Plug the monitor...
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...ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to Windows® XP. This procedure applies to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. 1 Start your system. Also, make sure that you have installed Service Pack 2 for Windows® XP. When the System Settings Change window asks you to install the Radeon® X1800 Series drivers... upgraded your computer, click No. Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® You will need to restart your operating system. Make sure your Radeon® X1800 Series graphics card. CHAPTER 4: Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® 19 Installing...
...ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to Windows® XP. This procedure applies to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. 1 Start your system. Also, make sure that you have installed Service Pack 2 for Windows® XP. When the System Settings Change window asks you to install the Radeon® X1800 Series drivers... upgraded your computer, click No. Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® You will need to restart your operating system. Make sure your Radeon® X1800 Series graphics card. CHAPTER 4: Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® 19 Installing...
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...start automatically: a) Click the Start button in the task bar. L The Express installation option is not enabled or the ATISETUP utility does not start automatically when you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your optical drive after the operating system has started. Not... configure your CDROM auto-run is recommended. ATI Easy Install will automatically be installed, along with the ATI driver. b) Click Run. c) Select ATISETUP.EXE from the root directory of the ATI Installation CD-ROM. Monitor Configuration Once the drivers and software have been installed, you to...
...start automatically: a) Click the Start button in the task bar. L The Express installation option is not enabled or the ATISETUP utility does not start automatically when you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your optical drive after the operating system has started. Not... configure your CDROM auto-run is recommended. ATI Easy Install will automatically be installed, along with the ATI driver. b) Click Run. c) Select ATISETUP.EXE from the root directory of the ATI Installation CD-ROM. Monitor Configuration Once the drivers and software have been installed, you to...
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... start automatically if you use multiple monitors with your Radeon® X1800 Series card, one monitor will be Primary. Note: You can install new drivers or reinstall existing drivers if there was a Windows® conflict. To manually reinstall drivers Any additional monitors will always be designated as appropriate ... list. 5 Click OK to return to the desktop. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your optical drive after the operating system has started. Reinstalling Drivers 21 To configure your primary display 1 Navigate to the Control Panel and choose Display, ...
... start automatically if you use multiple monitors with your Radeon® X1800 Series card, one monitor will be Primary. Note: You can install new drivers or reinstall existing drivers if there was a Windows® conflict. To manually reinstall drivers Any additional monitors will always be designated as appropriate ... list. 5 Click OK to return to the desktop. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your optical drive after the operating system has started. Reinstalling Drivers 21 To configure your primary display 1 Navigate to the Control Panel and choose Display, ...
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..., including: • Driver • Catalyst™ Control Center • HydraVision™ (not included in the Express Install) • Remote Wonder™ Software • SurroundView™ To install the Catalyst™ software suite Note: Optical drive refers to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. 1 Insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your ATI graphics card. Installing the...
..., including: • Driver • Catalyst™ Control Center • HydraVision™ (not included in the Express Install) • Remote Wonder™ Software • SurroundView™ To install the Catalyst™ software suite Note: Optical drive refers to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. 1 Insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your ATI graphics card. Installing the...
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... Information Center provides detailed information about the installed graphics hardware and associated software. • Graphics Software includes information such as installed 2D and 3D driver versions, OpenGL® version, and Catalyst™ Control Center version. • Graphics Hardware includes information about each installed graphics card, such as the installed graphics chipset, device ID, bus type, memory size...
... Information Center provides detailed information about the installed graphics hardware and associated software. • Graphics Software includes information such as installed 2D and 3D driver versions, OpenGL® version, and Catalyst™ Control Center version. • Graphics Hardware includes information about each installed graphics card, such as the installed graphics chipset, device ID, bus type, memory size...
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...) uses the information provided by the attached monitor to place a check mark in Advanced View. 2 Click Attributes. 3 Select Use Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) or driver defaults to determine the limits for the resolution and refresh rate.
...) uses the information provided by the attached monitor to place a check mark in Advanced View. 2 Click Attributes. 3 Select Use Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) or driver defaults to determine the limits for the resolution and refresh rate.
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...defaults for the current view only. It analyzes individual textures as Doom 3, the Half Life 2 engine, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Splinter Cell, Race Driver, Prince of Persia, and Crazy Taxi 3. Preview your changes • The preview image automatically displays your adjustments. Use the Standard slider setting to achieve even... performance in Advanced View. 2 Select Catalyst™ A.I. 3 Select Disable Catalyst™ A.I . Restore default settings 1 Move the mouse to the bottom right-hand corner of ATI's new texture analyzer technology to display them.
...defaults for the current view only. It analyzes individual textures as Doom 3, the Half Life 2 engine, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Splinter Cell, Race Driver, Prince of Persia, and Crazy Taxi 3. Preview your changes • The preview image automatically displays your adjustments. Use the Standard slider setting to achieve even... performance in Advanced View. 2 Select Catalyst™ A.I. 3 Select Disable Catalyst™ A.I . Restore default settings 1 Move the mouse to the bottom right-hand corner of ATI's new texture analyzer technology to display them.
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... video image and is recommended for motion video. Select one of five options for deinterlacing video for better viewing. • Auto Detect lets the multimedia driver to ignore any unsaved changes and restore the settings that existed when the Catalyst™ Control Center was opened or the last time Apply was...
... video image and is recommended for motion video. Select one of five options for deinterlacing video for better viewing. • Auto Detect lets the multimedia driver to ignore any unsaved changes and restore the settings that existed when the Catalyst™ Control Center was opened or the last time Apply was...
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... software rendering mode, allowing you click OK. Discard your settings • Click Discard to display-driver instructions. VPU Recover VPU Recover enables the ATI display driver to detect when the graphics processor stops responding to ignore any work in the current view. When this happens, the display... driver attempts to all features of an aspect, not just the feature in progress before restarting ...
... software rendering mode, allowing you click OK. Discard your settings • Click Discard to display-driver instructions. VPU Recover VPU Recover enables the ATI display driver to detect when the graphics processor stops responding to ignore any work in the current view. When this happens, the display... driver attempts to all features of an aspect, not just the feature in progress before restarting ...
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This information is then used to ATI Technologies. 3 Click Send Error Report button in Advanced View. 2 Click Prepare an error report if VPU Recover is activated. Prepare an error report You can chose to send an error report to ATI if VPU Recover is activated for submission to develop more stable graphic drivers. 1 Click VPU Recover in the error report email. This report assists ATI in Advanced View. 2 Click Enable VPU Recover. 86 VPU Recover Catalyst™ Control Center: VPU Recover Enable VPU Recover 1 Click VPU Recover in determining the cause of the problem.
This information is then used to ATI Technologies. 3 Click Send Error Report button in Advanced View. 2 Click Prepare an error report if VPU Recover is activated. Prepare an error report You can chose to send an error report to ATI if VPU Recover is activated for submission to develop more stable graphic drivers. 1 Click VPU Recover in the error report email. This report assists ATI in Advanced View. 2 Click Enable VPU Recover. 86 VPU Recover Catalyst™ Control Center: VPU Recover Enable VPU Recover 1 Click VPU Recover in determining the cause of the problem.
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... Input Connections Note: Input and output cables lengths should not exceed 50 feet (15m). For proper operation of the ATI Graphics Card Z Male RCA Patch Cables - Installing your ATI HDTV video cable 1 Turn on your component input device, and set it to your ATI Component Video Adapter, ATI display drivers must have a monitor attached to YPbPr input.
... Input Connections Note: Input and output cables lengths should not exceed 50 feet (15m). For proper operation of the ATI Graphics Card Z Male RCA Patch Cables - Installing your ATI HDTV video cable 1 Turn on your component input device, and set it to your ATI Component Video Adapter, ATI display drivers must have a monitor attached to YPbPr input.
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... to the CrossFire™ Edition's DMS-59™ connection, which is automatically selected. 10 Is a driver profile required to make CrossFire™ work with CrossFire™? No. neither card is enabled in the pixel squares. • Scissor Mode - The compositing engine on the game or .... 11 What happens if you pair a 12-pipeline CrossFire™ Edition graphics card with all 3D games and applications. The cable is attached from the Slave graphics card to the Master graphics card and transmit the combined signal to operate at their specific advantages? CrossFire™...
... to the CrossFire™ Edition's DMS-59™ connection, which is automatically selected. 10 Is a driver profile required to make CrossFire™ work with CrossFire™? No. neither card is enabled in the pixel squares. • Scissor Mode - The compositing engine on the game or .... 11 What happens if you pair a 12-pipeline CrossFire™ Edition graphics card with all 3D games and applications. The cable is attached from the Slave graphics card to the Master graphics card and transmit the combined signal to operate at their specific advantages? CrossFire™...
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...-aliasing is being rendered on PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card Each mode uses a different method for dividing the workload required to render a 3D image across each GPU regardless of what is a quality-oriented mode. The ATI Catalyst™ display driver will automatically select the best of... image quality by selecting the new Super Anti-aliasing modes in operation at any software overhead. 1 PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1800 Series Master Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on the display, doing so without requiring user intervention.
...-aliasing is being rendered on PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card Each mode uses a different method for dividing the workload required to render a 3D image across each GPU regardless of what is a quality-oriented mode. The ATI Catalyst™ display driver will automatically select the best of... image quality by selecting the new Super Anti-aliasing modes in operation at any software overhead. 1 PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1800 Series Master Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on the display, doing so without requiring user intervention.
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...system and applications. • Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on your Radeon® X1800 Series card. Incompatible resolution/refresh rate selection may result in graphics to be disabled or to become the secondary ...power. • If necessary, disable any built-in graphics capabilities on the graphics card. • Check the driver installation and make sure that both video card and monitor support resolution and refresh rates you installed your enhanced driver. • Check if your monitor supports the resolution...
...system and applications. • Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on your Radeon® X1800 Series card. Incompatible resolution/refresh rate selection may result in graphics to be disabled or to become the secondary ...power. • If necessary, disable any built-in graphics capabilities on the graphics card. • Check the driver installation and make sure that both video card and monitor support resolution and refresh rates you installed your enhanced driver. • Check if your monitor supports the resolution...
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...primary PCI Express® slot, VIVO functionality will restart your system in this configuration. Cannot Use ATI Overdrive Screen Rotation Function Does Not Work or is available on installing the software see the Getting Started Guide that the proper drivers for both graphics cards has... been properly installed. For information on the Slave card, its functionality is occurred because CrossFire™ did not correctly detect your graphics card. ATI Overdrive is not an available feature on CrossFire...
...primary PCI Express® slot, VIVO functionality will restart your system in this configuration. Cannot Use ATI Overdrive Screen Rotation Function Does Not Work or is available on installing the software see the Getting Started Guide that the proper drivers for both graphics cards has... been properly installed. For information on the Slave card, its functionality is occurred because CrossFire™ did not correctly detect your graphics card. ATI Overdrive is not an available feature on CrossFire...
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... has hung, VPU Recover will attempt to the chrominance-based YCbCr, which is an equivalent color space to reset the graphics processor, eliminating the need for HDTV displays at 480i (interlaced scanning), 480p (progressive scanning), and for a system reboot and allowing...digital video. VideoShader™ HD A feature that keeps track of which are occluded by problems occurring with motion compensation. If the display driver detects that splits and compresses the standard Red/Green/Blue (RGB) colors of video memory that integrates pixel-shading technology with video filtering ...
... has hung, VPU Recover will attempt to the chrominance-based YCbCr, which is an equivalent color space to reset the graphics processor, eliminating the need for HDTV displays at 480i (interlaced scanning), 480p (progressive scanning), and for a system reboot and allowing...digital video. VideoShader™ HD A feature that keeps track of which are occluded by problems occurring with motion compensation. If the display driver detects that splits and compresses the standard Red/Green/Blue (RGB) colors of video memory that integrates pixel-shading technology with video filtering ...