User manual GIGABYTE GV-NX71G512P8

[. . . ] 11, 2006 VGA Card GV-NX71G512P8-RH Sept. 11, 2006 VGA Card GV-NX71G512P8 / GV-NX71G256P4-RH Oct. 9, 2006 VGA Card GV-NX71G512P8 / GV-NX71G256P4-RH Oct. 9, 2006 GV-NX71G512P8-RH / GV-NX71G512P8 / GV-NX71G256P4-RH GeForceTM 7100 GS Graphics Accelerator User's Manual Rev. [. . . ] Opens Help page - 15 - Software Installation English 3. 1. 5. Taskbar Icon After installation of the display drivers, you will find a GIGABYTE icon on the taskbar's status area. Right-clicking this icon opens the GIGABYTE control panel, showing a menu composed of shortcut of the graphics card's enhanced and other functions. You may click the Display Properties item, and then click Settings. Click the appropriate tab to change your display settings. Right click the icon. Click the VGA Information item into the "VGA Info" and "Color Adjust" tabs. You can link to GIGABYTE website for updated information about the graphics accelerator, latest drivers, and other information. GV-NX71G Series Graphics Accelerator - 16 - VGA Information VGA Info lists the relevant information about your card. English Color Adjust Color Adjust allows you to make color adjustments, such as brightness, contrast and gamma values for each or all of RGB colors. - 17 - Software Installation English After installation of the display drivers, you will find a NVIDIA icon area. Click this icon to open the control panel. on the taskbar's status Right click the icon. You can adjust the properties of the graphics accelerator from here. GV-NX71G Series Graphics Accelerator - 18 - 3. 1. 6. Display Properties Pages To access Display Properties pages, right-click the GBT icon on the taskbar and select Display Properties or right-click on Desktop and then select Properties. The Display Properties dialog box shows the information of display adapter, color, the range of display area, and the refresh rate. Settings (Resolutions and Color depth for Windows) You may adjust the screen resolution and color quality settings in this dialog box. English You can move the slider to change the resolution. You can click the item to change the color quality. Click the Advanced button for adapter and setting. To access more advanced options, click the Advanced button. - 19 - Software Installation English GeForce 7100 GS tab After pressing the Advanced button in Settings, you'll see the Plug and Play Monitor and NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS Properties dialog box. (You can also click the NVIDIA icon on the taskbar and select Nvidia Display to access the GeForce 7100 GS properties page. ) When you access the GeForce 7100 GS tab page for the first time, you'll see two items in the left submenu: Launch Page 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. In the NVIDIA Control Panel, select a category to alter specific NVIDIA display settings. Control Panel User Interface You can choose one of the two user interfaces below: · Classic NVIDIA Control Panel When you select this item and click Apply, a submenu that provides the NVIDIA display properties settings will appear on the left side. · New NVIDIA Control Panel This is the default user interface, which provides control of the NVIDIA graphics driver settings and other NVIDIA utilities you might have installed on your system. GV-NX71G Series Graphics Accelerator - 20 - The following section introduces display properties settings using the classic NVIDIA control panel interface as the example. GeForce 7100 GS properties This page shows the Adapter, System and Driver version information. English You can select other properties from the pop-out menu. nView Display Settings properties * nView allows you to connect separate displays to single graphics card. · nView Display mode: select your preferred nView display modes here. Options: Single display/ Clone/ Horizontal Sapn/ Vertical Span/ Dual View · Primary/Secondary display: select a single display or display pair. The selected display combination will appear in the graphical representation below. · Make this the primary display: Specifies that the display corresponding to the icon you selected above is the primary display. · Click Apply to apply settings or click OK to save settings. [. . . ] Extract the downloaded Zip file to your hard disk(s) or floppy disk. (For Windows® 2000/XP, you 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 [BIOS file name] (example: gvf11 -s x71g9p8r. f1) and press Enter. To flash BIOS, at the A:\> prompt, type [BIOS flash utility name] -p [BIOS file name] (example: gvf11 -p x71g9p8r. f2) and press Enter. [. . . ]