User manual GIGABYTE GV-N295-18I-B REV 201

[. . . ] GV-N295-18I-B/ GV-N295-18I-B rev 2. 0 NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 295 Graphics Accelerator TM User's Manual Rev. 201 12MM-N295GB-201R Copyright © 2009 GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY CO. , LTD Copyright by GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO. , LTD. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the expressed, written permission of GBT. Trademarks Third-party brands and names are the properties of their respective owners. [. . . ] Software Installation In this manual, we assume that your CD-ROM drive letter to be Drive D: The installation of drivers is very simple. When you insert the driver CD into your CD-ROM drive, you can see the autorun window (if it does not show up, run "D:\setup. exe"). Then you can follow the instructions to setup your graphics card driver. (Please follow the subsection "3. 1. 3 Driver Installation" to install the driver for your graphics card. ) 3. 1. Windows® XP Driver and Utilities Installation 3. 1. 1. Operating System Requirements Notice the following guidelines before installing the drivers: 1. First make sure your system has installed DirectX 9. 0c or later version. Make sure your system has installed the appropriate motherboard drivers (for the motherboard drivers, please contact the motherboard manufacturer. ) GV-N295 Series Graphics Accelerator - 12 - 3. 1. 2. DirectX Installation Install Microsoft DirectX to enable 3D hardware acceleration support for Windows XP to achieve better 3D performance. For software MPEG support in Windows XP, you must install DirectX first. Users who run Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or above do not need to install DirectX separately. When the autorun window shows up, click the Install DirectX 9 item. Step 2. Choose I accept the agreement and click the Next button. Step 3. Click the Next button. The system is installing the components. Step 4. Then the DirectX 9 installation is completed. - 13 - Software Installation 3. 1. 3. (You can also click the NVIDIA icon in the notification area and select NVIDIA Control Panel. ) Access the GeForce GTX 295 tab page to launch the NVIDIA Control Panel. All of the NVIDIA control panels have been consolidated into a single application, the NVIDIA Control Panel. Click the Start the NVIDIA Control Panel button to open the NVIDIA Control Panel. - 17 - Software Installation Select the view of the NVIDIA Control Panel that is most appropriate for you. Standard Settings Advanced Settings The following pages provide details on configuring advanced settings. In the NVIDIA Control Panel, select a category to alter specific NVIDIA display settings. The categories are: 3D Settings Display Video & Television In the NVIDIA Control Panel, change a view if you want. The supported modes are: Standard Advanced Custom 3D Settings Tasks in the 3D Settings pages allow you to do the following: · Change the image and rendering settings of your 3D applications and games that utilize Direct3D and OpenGL technology. · Override the shipped clocked frequencies of your GPU and GPU memory to increase your GPU performance. [. . . ] How to Reflash the BIOS in MS-DOS Mode 1. Extract the downloaded Zip file to your hard disk(s) or floppy disk. (You may need a startup disk to restart the computer in MS-DOS mode. ) 3. To back up the current BIOS, at the A:\> prompt, type[BIOS flash utility name] - s [ B I O S f i l e n a m e ] (example: gvf18 -s 295IB. f1) and press Enter. [. . . ]