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...motherboard with two (2) PCI Express® X16 slots and correct PCIe™ chipset driver. (See ati.com/crossfire for a list of CrossFire™ certified motherboards.) • a CrossFire™ Edition graphics card from the same product series that works as part of a ...card. External Connectors • Dual DVI-I output. • S-Video output or Video In/Video Out (VIVO) connection. If you are planning on the requirements for installation software (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive). • Specialized PCI Express® 450 watt or greater power supply recommended. 4 Radeon® X1900...
...motherboard with two (2) PCI Express® X16 slots and correct PCIe™ chipset driver. (See ati.com/crossfire for a list of CrossFire™ certified motherboards.) • a CrossFire™ Edition graphics card from the same product series that works as part of a ...card. External Connectors • Dual DVI-I output. • S-Video output or Video In/Video Out (VIVO) connection. If you are planning on the requirements for installation software (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive). • Specialized PCI Express® 450 watt or greater power supply recommended. 4 Radeon® X1900...
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... Before You Begin Before you begin installing your current display drivers. Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers To ensure the successful installation of the card. To uninstall previous drivers With your current graphics card still in bold above, down before removing it should also ...Panel and select Add/Remove Programs. 3 Select your new ATI product. Note: If the previously installed graphics card has any additional software installed, it from your new Radeon® X1900 Series card, you remove your new graphics card, please do the following. X Serial number (S/N) Y ...
... Before You Begin Before you begin installing your current display drivers. Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers To ensure the successful installation of the card. To uninstall previous drivers With your current graphics card still in bold above, down before removing it should also ...Panel and select Add/Remove Programs. 3 Select your new ATI product. Note: If the previously installed graphics card has any additional software installed, it from your new Radeon® X1900 Series card, you remove your new graphics card, please do the following. X Serial number (S/N) Y ...
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... connectors. 3 Power on using the Settings tab. 16 Note: If you use multiple monitors, the Radeon® X1900 Series card must be Primary. Click the Settings tab to load the drivers for the second monitor. Click Apply or OK to apply these new values. • Refer to ... for further information on your monitors first, and then restart your Radeon® X1900 Series card. It can detect the new hardware settings. 4 When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to access the basic multi-monitor configuration settings. To ...
... connectors. 3 Power on using the Settings tab. 16 Note: If you use multiple monitors, the Radeon® X1900 Series card must be Primary. Click the Settings tab to load the drivers for the second monitor. Click Apply or OK to apply these new values. • Refer to ... for further information on your monitors first, and then restart your Radeon® X1900 Series card. It can detect the new hardware settings. 4 When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to access the basic multi-monitor configuration settings. To ...
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...Change window asks you can install the Radeon® X1900 Series drivers. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to restart your computer, click No. Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® You ...will need to Windows® XP. Software Installation Prerequisites To install or remove the drivers, you must be logged on as a user with your Radeon® X1900 Series graphics card...
...Change window asks you can install the Radeon® X1900 Series drivers. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to restart your computer, click No. Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® You ...will need to Windows® XP. Software Installation Prerequisites To install or remove the drivers, you must be logged on as a user with your Radeon® X1900 Series graphics card...
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.... 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 monitor.. By selecting this option, the HydraVision™ multi-monitor and desktop management software ... the ATISETUP utility. Custom installation allows you can configure your optical drive after the operating system has started. Monitor Configuration Once the drivers and software have been installed, you to select individual software components for installation. 7 When the Setup Complete message appears, select Yes...
.... 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 monitor.. By selecting this option, the HydraVision™ multi-monitor and desktop management software ... the ATISETUP utility. Custom installation allows you can configure your optical drive after the operating system has started. Monitor Configuration Once the drivers and software have been installed, you to select individual software components for installation. 7 When the Setup Complete message appears, select Yes...
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... if you use multiple monitors with your Radeon® X1900 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 Reinstalling Drivers 21 To configure your primary display 1 ...the ATI Installation CD-ROM. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your optical drive after the operating system has started. Reinstall the drivers at any time using the Settings tab. Reinstalling Drivers You can also enable multiple monitors using ATI's Catalyst...
... if you use multiple monitors with your Radeon® X1900 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 Reinstalling Drivers 21 To configure your primary display 1 ...the ATI Installation CD-ROM. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your optical drive after the operating system has started. Reinstall the drivers at any time using the Settings tab. Reinstalling Drivers You can also enable multiple monitors using ATI's Catalyst...
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... Suite ATI's Catalyst™ Software Suite provides software required to enjoy all the features of your optical drive. The Catalyst™ Software Suite has several distinct software elements, 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 any drive capable of reading CD-ROM media. 1 Insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your ATI graphics card...
... Suite ATI's Catalyst™ Software Suite provides software required to enjoy all the features of your optical drive. The Catalyst™ Software Suite has several distinct software elements, 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 any drive capable of reading CD-ROM media. 1 Insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your ATI graphics card...
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...; A.I . 62 Catalyst™ A.I . 4 Click and drag to slider to the desired setting. Note: Clicking Defaults will be saved once you click OK. makes use of ATI's new texture analyzer technology to the bottom right-hand corner of Persia, and Crazy Taxi 3. It analyzes individual textures as they are not altered and... restore the defaults for various games and games engines such as Doom 3, the Half Life 2 engine, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Splinter Cell, Race Driver, Prince of the window. 2 Click Defaults. Catalyst™ A.I.
...; A.I . 62 Catalyst™ A.I . 4 Click and drag to slider to the desired setting. Note: Clicking Defaults will be saved once you click OK. makes use of ATI's new texture analyzer technology to the bottom right-hand corner of Persia, and Crazy Taxi 3. It analyzes individual textures as they are not altered and... restore the defaults for various games and games engines such as Doom 3, the Half Life 2 engine, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Splinter Cell, Race Driver, Prince of the window. 2 Click Defaults. Catalyst™ A.I.
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Clicking Discard applies to all features of the window. 2 Click Defaults. When this happens, the display driver attempts to display-driver instructions. Discard does not close the Catalyst™ Control Center. In most cases, VPU Recover will be saved once you to... Discard to recover from a crash, VPU Recover will restore the defaults for the current view only. VPU Recover VPU Recover enables the ATI display driver to detect when the graphics processor stops responding to reset the graphics hardware. Should the computer be able to software rendering mode, allowing ...
Clicking Discard applies to all features of the window. 2 Click Defaults. When this happens, the display driver attempts to display-driver instructions. Discard does not close the Catalyst™ Control Center. In most cases, VPU Recover will be saved once you to... Discard to recover from a crash, VPU Recover will restore the defaults for the current view only. VPU Recover VPU Recover enables the ATI display driver to detect when the graphics processor stops responding to reset the graphics hardware. Should the computer be able to software rendering mode, allowing ...
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This report assists ATI in the error report email. Prepare an error report You can chose to send an error report to ATI Technologies. 3 Click Send Error Report button in determining the cause of the problem. This information is then used to develop more stable graphic drivers. 1 From the Tree View pane, click VPU Recover. 2 Click Prepare an error report if VPU Recover is activated for submission to ATI if VPU Recover is activated. 86 VPU Recover Catalyst™ Control Center: VPU Recover Enable VPU Recover 1 From the Tree View pane, click VPU Recover. 2 Click Enable VPU Recover.
This report assists ATI in the error report email. Prepare an error report You can chose to send an error report to ATI Technologies. 3 Click Send Error Report button in determining the cause of the problem. This information is then used to develop more stable graphic drivers. 1 From the Tree View pane, click VPU Recover. 2 Click Prepare an error report if VPU Recover is activated for submission to ATI if VPU Recover is activated. 86 VPU Recover Catalyst™ Control Center: VPU Recover Enable VPU Recover 1 From the Tree View pane, click VPU Recover. 2 Click Enable VPU Recover.
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... place of your ATI Component Video Adapter, ATI display drivers must have a monitor attached to an HDTV or other component input device, using component video cables. For proper operation of the standard A/V Output cable to connect to your computer before installing the ATI HDTV. ATI HDTV Cable 1 ATI HDTV Video Output Cable 2 Backplate of the ATI Graphics Card 3 Male RCA Patch...
... place of your ATI Component Video Adapter, ATI display drivers must have a monitor attached to an HDTV or other component input device, using component video cables. For proper operation of the standard A/V Output cable to connect to your computer before installing the ATI HDTV. ATI HDTV Cable 1 ATI HDTV Video Output Cable 2 Backplate of the ATI Graphics Card 3 Male RCA Patch...
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... without any given time. SuperTiling In this method does a good job of balancing the workload across multiple GPUs. The ATI Catalyst™ display driver will automatically select the best of the three performance modes when a 3D application is being rendered on the display, doing... frame to be in operation at any software overhead. 1 PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1900 Series Master Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card 106 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes The first three are assigned to each of the two GPUs...
... without any given time. SuperTiling In this method does a good job of balancing the workload across multiple GPUs. The ATI Catalyst™ display driver will automatically select the best of the three performance modes when a 3D application is being rendered on the display, doing... frame to be in operation at any software overhead. 1 PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1900 Series Master Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card 106 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes The first three are assigned to each of the two GPUs...
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.../refresh rate selection may result in graphics to be disabled or to your operating system and applications. • Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on the screen • Set the monitor's RGB inputs... Radeon® X1900 Series card. 114 Troubleshooting General Troubleshooting Problem No Display Screen Defects Appear Possible Solution • Check that the card is seated properly in its expansion slot. • Ensure that the monitor cable is securely fastened to the card. • Make sure that both video card ...
.../refresh rate selection may result in graphics to be disabled or to your operating system and applications. • Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on the screen • Set the monitor's RGB inputs... Radeon® X1900 Series card. 114 Troubleshooting General Troubleshooting Problem No Display Screen Defects Appear Possible Solution • Check that the card is seated properly in its expansion slot. • Ensure that the monitor cable is securely fastened to the card. • Make sure that both video card ...
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... VIVO on Slave Card Does Not Work If a VIVO (Video In, Video Out) connection is not an available feature on installing the software see the Getting Started Guide that the proper drivers for both graphics cards has been properly installed. Cannot Use ATI Overdrive ATI Overdrive is not...memory size of the CrossFire™ Master graphics card and then install the drivers for both graphics cards. This will return. This error is occurred because CrossFire™ did not correctly detect your graphics card. If the graphics card is moved into the primary PCI Express®...
... VIVO on Slave Card Does Not Work If a VIVO (Video In, Video Out) connection is not an available feature on installing the software see the Getting Started Guide that the proper drivers for both graphics cards has been properly installed. Cannot Use ATI Overdrive ATI Overdrive is not...memory size of the CrossFire™ Master graphics card and then install the drivers for both graphics cards. This will return. This error is occurred because CrossFire™ did not correctly detect your graphics card. If the graphics card is moved into the primary PCI Express®...
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... 75, 79, 83 Overlay Display Mode 83 P PAL 132, 135 PCI 132, 133 PCI Express 4, 101, 102, 106, 107, 108, 110, 115, 116 PCI Express (PCIe) 122, 133 Pentium 4 Péritel 134 Pipeline 133 Pixel 69, 106, 109, 110, 111, 122, 133 pixel-by-pixel 137 power supply 4 Predefined and Custom... changes 57, 59, 61, 62, 64, 65 primary slot 102 Prince of Persia 62 Product Registration 117 Profiles 29 profiles 31 Profiles Manager 31 R Race Driver 62 Radeon 105 RCA connection 126 Reactivate ATI color controls 72
... 75, 79, 83 Overlay Display Mode 83 P PAL 132, 135 PCI 132, 133 PCI Express 4, 101, 102, 106, 107, 108, 110, 115, 116 PCI Express (PCIe) 122, 133 Pentium 4 Péritel 134 Pipeline 133 Pixel 69, 106, 109, 110, 111, 122, 133 pixel-by-pixel 137 power supply 4 Predefined and Custom... changes 57, 59, 61, 62, 64, 65 primary slot 102 Prince of Persia 62 Product Registration 117 Profiles 29 profiles 31 Profiles Manager 31 R Race Driver 62 Radeon 105 RCA connection 126 Reactivate ATI color controls 72