User manual GIGABYTE GV-RX24T256HP

[. . . ] 5, 2007 VGA Card GV-RX24T256HP Jul. 5, 2007 GV-RX24T256HP ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT Graphics Accelerator TM User's Manual Rev. 101 12MD-RX24T2H-101R * The WEEE marking on the product indicates this product must not be disposed of with user's other household waste and must be handed over to a designated collection point for the recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment!!* The WEEE marking applies only in European Union's member states. Copyright © 2007 GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY CO. , LTD Copyright by GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO. , LTD. [. . . ] (There is a driver CD disk that came with your graphics accelerator, please insert it now. ) Or click the "Cancel" button to install the driver from AUTORUN window. Step 2: Found new hardware wizard: Searching and installing The wizard will search for the driver and install it automatically. Step 3: Found new hardware wizard: Finish Click the "Finish" button to finish the installation. GV-RX24T256HP Graphics Accelerator - 12 - B. Driver installation (Autorun Window) Insert the driver CD disk into your CD-ROM, and then you can see the AUTORUN window. If it does not show up, please run "D:\setup. exe". English Click the Install Display Driver item. Step 1. When autorun window show up, click the Install Display Driver item. Step 2. Click Express or Custom icon. Windows installings the components. Step 5. Click the Finish button to restart computer. Then the driver installation is completed. - 13 Software Installation English 3. 1. 4. Taskbar Icon ATI Catalyst® Control Center: After installation of the display driver, you will find an ATI Catalyst® Control Center icon on the taskbar's status area. The ATI Catalyst® Control Center is used to configure all your graphics card settings. Right-click the icon to enter the ATI Catalyst® Control Center (refer to Figure 1). Or you can right-click on the desktop and select ATI CATALYST(R) Control Center (refer to Figure 2). Figure 1 Figure 2 GV-RX24T256HP Graphics Accelerator - 14 - 3. 1. 5. Finally, click Next to start file conversion. The video file has been successfully converted. Setup my display configuration This wizard allows you to configure display setting for desktop viewing. - 17 - Software Installation English Quick Settings: The Quick Settings page provide access to three main settings. 3D Quality 3D Performance and Quality settings allows your 3D games and applications to get faster performance and better quality with a more balanced setting. Video Playback Use this option to optimize video playback in different room environment or to select how video playback appears on the second display. Display Setup This option allows you to configure your desktop, including changing desktop resolution and desktop mode, setting up extended desktop (requires more than one display), and rotating desktop image to match new display orientation. Information Center: The Information Center page in Basic and Advanced View provides hardware and software information about the installed graphics card. Graphics Software Provides software information including driver version, CATALYST version, Direct 3D version and so on. Graphics Hardware Provides hardware information incluing graphics chipset, BIOS version, memory size, core clock and so on. GV-RX24T256HP Graphics Accelerator - 18 - ATI CatalystTM Control Center Advanced View The Advanced page allows you to configure all of the many available settings of your ATI graphics card. English View Properties: The CATALYST Control Center dashboard supports three types of views: Basic View/ Advanced View/ Custom View. Basic View The Basic view is the default view when CATALYST Control Center is launched for the first time. Refer to the previous pages for details. Advanced View The Advanced view provides access to the advanced features on each page. The left navigation pane displays a tree view that lists all the advanced features. The Advanced view is recommended for experienced users. Custom View The Custom view allows you to display only the features you choose in the left navigation pane. The Custom view is recommended for experienced users who want to expose only the features they adjust most often or that their 3D application supports. Hotkeys Properties: The Hotkeys Manager allows you to create shortcut key combinations to quickly perform tasks such as changing a graphics setting or opening an application. [. . . ] If the computer cannot recover from a crash, VPU Recover will switch the computer to software rendering mode, allowing you to save any work in progress before restarting the computer. Enable VPU Recover Prepare an error report if VPU Recover is activated, for submission to ATI Technologies. Allows the VPU Recover, once it is activated, to generate an error report that you can send to ATI via e-mail. Note: Because Windows Vista provides the same functionality as this option, VPU Recover is not available on systems running Windows Vista. English ATI Overdrive: Use Overdrive to maximize your viewing experience by dynamically and safely overclocking the graphics processor and memory. Use the Automated clock configuration utility to obtain the ATI recommended speeds for the graphics processor clock and video memory clock. [. . . ]