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v Table of Contents Introduction 1 Radeon® X1300 Series Features 1 Graphic Features 1 CrossFire™ Ready 3 System Requirements 4 External Connections 4 Before You Begin 4 Record Your Serial and Part Numbers 4 Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers 5 Installing Hardware 7 Graphics Card Bus Types 7 Basic Graphics Card Installation 7 Advanced Installation: AGP 9 Advanced Installation: PCIe™ 11 Connecting Devices 14 Using Multiple Displays 15...
v Table of Contents Introduction 1 Radeon® X1300 Series Features 1 Graphic Features 1 CrossFire™ Ready 3 System Requirements 4 External Connections 4 Before You Begin 4 Record Your Serial and Part Numbers 4 Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers 5 Installing Hardware 7 Graphics Card Bus Types 7 Basic Graphics Card Installation 7 Advanced Installation: AGP 9 Advanced Installation: PCIe™ 11 Connecting Devices 14 Using Multiple Displays 15...
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... 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. Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers To ensure the successful installation of your new Radeon® X1300 Series card, you remove your current graphics card drivers and select Add/Remove...
... 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. Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers To ensure the successful installation of your new Radeon® X1300 Series card, you remove your current graphics card drivers and select Add/Remove...
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...When you can detect the new hardware settings. 4 When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to load the drivers for the second monitor. Click Apply or OK to apply these new values. • Refer to -VGA adapter CRT- .... DVI-I -to your Windows® online help and documentation for further information on your monitors first, and then restart your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Display Connector(s) Configuration Used Comments Single CRT display Single DFP display VGA connector OR DVI-I connector with your...
...When you can detect the new hardware settings. 4 When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to load the drivers for the second monitor. Click Apply or OK to apply these new values. • Refer to -VGA adapter CRT- .... DVI-I -to your Windows® online help and documentation for further information on your monitors first, and then restart your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Display Connector(s) Configuration Used Comments Single CRT display Single DFP display VGA connector OR DVI-I connector with your...
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...before you begin. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to install the Radeon® X1300 Series drivers and software in the following cases: • After you have installed the card in Windows® 21 Installing Software and Drivers This chapter will guide you ... drive. 1 Start your computer, click No. Software Installation Prerequisites To install or remove the drivers, you must be logged on as a user with your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card. This procedure applies to restart your system. When the Found New Hardware Wizard appears, click...
...before you begin. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to install the Radeon® X1300 Series drivers and software in the following cases: • After you have installed the card in Windows® 21 Installing Software and Drivers This chapter will guide you ... drive. 1 Start your computer, click No. Software Installation Prerequisites To install or remove the drivers, you must be logged on as a user with your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card. This procedure applies to restart your system. When the Found New Hardware Wizard appears, click...
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... rate unsupported by your monitor may damage your monitor's documentation if necessary. Consult your monitor. ATI Easy Install will automatically be installed, along with the ATI driver. If your optical drive after the operating system has started. L The Express installation option is not enabled or the ATISETUP utility does not start automatically: a) Click the...
... rate unsupported by your monitor may damage your monitor's documentation if necessary. Consult your monitor. ATI Easy Install will automatically be installed, along with the ATI driver. If your optical drive after the operating system has started. L The Express installation option is not enabled or the ATISETUP utility does not start automatically: a) Click the...
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...Settings tab to the desktop. Note: You can install new drivers or reinstall existing drivers if there was a Windows® conflict. To manually reinstall drivers Reinstalling Drivers You can also enable multiple monitors using ATI's Catalyst® Control Center. The ATISETUP utility will start ...Set the Screen Resolution and Color Quality as Secondary. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your Radeon® X1300 Series card, one monitor will be Primary. Reinstall the drivers at any time using the Settings tab. To set up a multi-monitor display ...
...Settings tab to the desktop. Note: You can install new drivers or reinstall existing drivers if there was a Windows® conflict. To manually reinstall drivers Reinstalling Drivers You can also enable multiple monitors using ATI's Catalyst® Control Center. The ATISETUP utility will start ...Set the Screen Resolution and Color Quality as Secondary. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your Radeon® X1300 Series card, one monitor will be Primary. Reinstall the drivers at any time using the Settings tab. To set up a multi-monitor display ...
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... 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 enjoy all the features of your ATI graphics card. Installing the Catalyst® Software...
... 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 enjoy all the features of your ATI graphics card. Installing the Catalyst® Software...
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This report can be used by an ATI Customer Care agent to help diagnose and resolve the problem. 1 Click the Help button in the Dashboard. 2 Click About Catalyst® Control Center. Display the ... 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, and BIOS version...
This report can be used by an ATI Customer Care agent to help diagnose and resolve the problem. 1 Click the Help button in the Dashboard. 2 Click About Catalyst® Control Center. Display the ... 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, and BIOS version...
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... Data. Enable Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) 1 From the Tree View pane, expand Monitor Properties. 2 Click Attributes. 3 Select Use Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) or driver defaults to determine the limits for the resolution and refresh rate. 50 Catalyst® Control Center: Monitor Properties (Sample) Monitor Attributes Monitor Attributes provides information...
... Data. Enable Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) 1 From the Tree View pane, expand Monitor Properties. 2 Click Attributes. 3 Select Use Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) or driver defaults to determine the limits for the resolution and refresh rate. 50 Catalyst® Control Center: Monitor Properties (Sample) Monitor Attributes Monitor Attributes provides information...
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... 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. 65 Discard your settings • Click Discard to display them. makes use of... ATI's new texture analyzer technology to all features of an aspect, not just the feature in 3D applications while maintaining or even improving image ...
... 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. 65 Discard your settings • Click Discard to display them. makes use of... ATI's new texture analyzer technology to all features of an aspect, not just the feature in 3D applications while maintaining or even improving image ...
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... mode 1 From the Tree View pane, expand Video. 2 Click Deinterlacing. 3 Select a deinterlacing mode for the drop-down menu. 84 Standard Settings • Auto Detect lets the multimedia driver to select the best deinterlacing scheme for different video sources and sizes. • Bob deinterlacing, when... selected, removes every other line of the video image and is recommended for motion video. • Adaptive deinterlacing, when selected,...
... mode 1 From the Tree View pane, expand Video. 2 Click Deinterlacing. 3 Select a deinterlacing mode for the drop-down menu. 84 Standard Settings • Auto Detect lets the multimedia driver to select the best deinterlacing scheme for different video sources and sizes. • Bob deinterlacing, when... selected, removes every other line of the video image and is recommended for motion video. • Adaptive deinterlacing, when selected,...
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... mode, allowing you click OK. Discard does not close the Catalyst® Control Center. When this happens, the display driver attempts to display-driver instructions. VPU Recover VPU Recover enables the ATI display driver to detect when the graphics processor stops responding to reset the graphics hardware. Note: Clicking Defaults will be able to...
... mode, allowing you click OK. Discard does not close the Catalyst® Control Center. When this happens, the display driver attempts to display-driver instructions. VPU Recover VPU Recover enables the ATI display driver to detect when the graphics processor stops responding to reset the graphics hardware. Note: Clicking Defaults will be able to...
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This information is then used to ATI Technologies. 3 Click Send Error Report button in determining the cause of the problem. 89 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 if VPU Recover is activated for submission 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.
This information is then used to ATI Technologies. 3 Click Send Error Report button in determining the cause of the problem. 89 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 if VPU Recover is activated for submission 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.
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... manual for configuration information specific to your component input device, and set it to YPbPr input. ATI HDTV Cable 1 ATI HDTV Video Output Cable 2 Backplate of the standard A/V Output cable to connect to an HDTV or other component input ...ATI HDTV video cable 1 Turn on your device. For proper operation of your computer before installing the ATI HDTV. 96 Connecting to HDTV The HDTV Component Video Adapter can be correctly installed. L You must have a monitor attached to your ATI Component Video Adapter, ATI display drivers must be used in place of the ATI Graphics Card...
... manual for configuration information specific to your component input device, and set it to YPbPr input. ATI HDTV Cable 1 ATI HDTV Video Output Cable 2 Backplate of the standard A/V Output cable to connect to an HDTV or other component input ...ATI HDTV video cable 1 Turn on your device. For proper operation of your computer before installing the ATI HDTV. 96 Connecting to HDTV The HDTV Component Video Adapter can be correctly installed. L You must have a monitor attached to your ATI Component Video Adapter, ATI display drivers must be used in place of the ATI Graphics Card...
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...check the Enable CrossFire™ box. CrossFire™ is automatically selected. 7 Is a driver profile required to make CrossFire™ work with CrossFire™? Multiple monitors/ displays that are the graphics cards connected on a CrossFire™ system? 100 To access and enable CrossFire™ in ...3D games and applications. 8 What happens if you pair a 16-pipeline CrossFire™ Edition graphics card with all display devices except the one graphics card to the other graphics card and transmit the combined signal to a display device. When CrossFire™ is disabled. 5 How...
...check the Enable CrossFire™ box. CrossFire™ is automatically selected. 7 Is a driver profile required to make CrossFire™ work with CrossFire™? Multiple monitors/ displays that are the graphics cards connected on a CrossFire™ system? 100 To access and enable CrossFire™ in ...3D games and applications. 8 What happens if you pair a 16-pipeline CrossFire™ Edition graphics card with all display devices except the one graphics card to the other graphics card and transmit the combined signal to a display device. When CrossFire™ is disabled. 5 How...
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...correctly loaded corresponding 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 your ...Radeon® X1300 Series card. Incompatible resolution/refresh rate selection may result in graphics to be disabled or to become the secondary display.) • Make sure that Video Card Isn't Properly Configured Warning! For more information, consult your Display Properties dialog. Ensure that both video card and monitor support resolution and refresh rates you installed your enhanced driver...
...correctly loaded corresponding 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 your ...Radeon® X1300 Series card. Incompatible resolution/refresh rate selection may result in graphics to be disabled or to become the secondary display.) • Make sure that Video Card Isn't Properly Configured Warning! For more information, consult your Display Properties dialog. Ensure that both video card and monitor support resolution and refresh rates you installed your enhanced driver...
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...of 640x480 pixels, the lowest standard resolution supported by problems occurring with an integrated digital TV decode capability. If the display driver detects that the graphics processor has hung, VPU Recover will attempt to reset the graphics processor, eliminating the need for the...clock cycle, and hence finer, more . The "VGA" is an acronym for "Video Graphics Array," which is the most common type of video connector available, consisting of system crashes caused by virtually all video cards. The "Y" stands for a system reboot and allowing users to significantly reduce the number...
...of 640x480 pixels, the lowest standard resolution supported by problems occurring with an integrated digital TV decode capability. If the display driver detects that the graphics processor has hung, VPU Recover will attempt to reset the graphics processor, eliminating the need for the...clock cycle, and hence finer, more . The "VGA" is an acronym for "Video Graphics Array," which is the most common type of video connector available, consisting of system crashes caused by virtually all video cards. The "Y" stands for a system reboot and allowing users to significantly reduce the number...
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... 36 Displays Manager 37, 38 Displays Manager Advanced View 38 Dithering 111 Doom 3 62 Dot pitch 91, 111, 112, 117, 119 dot pitch 91 driver installation 19 drivers installing 19 uninstalling 5 DVD 4, 19, 110, 113, 118, 121 DVI 48, 49, 50, 96, 97, 112, 113, 121 DVI Settings 50 DVI-A 112 DVI...
... 36 Displays Manager 37, 38 Displays Manager Advanced View 38 Dithering 111 Doom 3 62 Dot pitch 91, 111, 112, 117, 119 dot pitch 91 driver installation 19 drivers installing 19 uninstalling 5 DVD 4, 19, 110, 113, 118, 121 DVI 48, 49, 50, 96, 97, 112, 113, 121 DVI Settings 50 DVI-A 112 DVI...
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..., 62, 64 primary slot 96 Prince of Persia 62 Product Registration 101 Profile Manager 33 Profiles 29 profiles 31 Profiles Manager 31, 32, 33 R Race Driver 62 Radeon 118, 120 RCA connection 110 Reactivate your color settings 72 Red Green Blue (RGB) 100, 110, 114, 118, 121, 123 Refresh Rate 20, 21...
..., 62, 64 primary slot 96 Prince of Persia 62 Product Registration 101 Profile Manager 33 Profiles 29 profiles 31 Profiles Manager 31, 32, 33 R Race Driver 62 Radeon 118, 120 RCA connection 110 Reactivate your color settings 72 Red Green Blue (RGB) 100, 110, 114, 118, 121, 123 Refresh Rate 20, 21...