ASUS 740DVD User Manual

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740DVD

Hardware DVD Daughterboard

for the

ASUS AGP-V2740

3D Multimedia Accelerator Series

USER’S MANUAL

USER’S MANUAL

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Copyright © 1998 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved.

No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted,
transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except
documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK
COMPUTER INC. (“ASUS”).

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respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners’ benefit, without intent to infringe.

• Intel740 is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.

• REALmagic and DVD Station are trademarks of Sigma Designs, Inc.

• Sound Blaster 16 is a trademark of Creative Technology Ltd.

• Windows 95 and Windows 98 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

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each product design represented by the digit before and after the period of the manual revision number. Manual
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Product Name: ASUS 740DVD
Manual Revision: 1.00 E257
Release Date: September 1998

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Contents

Communications Regulation Information ......................................................4

Federal Communications Commission Statement 4
Canadian Department of Communications Statement 4

ASUS Contact Information ...............................................................................5

Introduction .......................................................................................................6

Item Checklist 6
Supported File Formats 7
System Requirements 7

Installation .........................................................................................................8

Hardware Installation 8

ASUS 740DVD Parts 8
ASUS 740DVD Layout 8
Installing Your ASUS 740DVD 9

Software Installation 10

Windows95/98 10
Contents Scramble System (CSS) Regions 11
Using the DVD Station 12

Starting the DVD Station 12
Standard Buttons 14
Custom Buttons 15
Picture Controls 20
DVD Navigation Buttons 21
DVD Playback 23
Video CD Playback 26
Audio CD Playback 27
Shortcut Keys 28

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Communications Regulation Information

Federal Communications Commission Statement

This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

■ This device may not cause harmful interference, and

■ This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause

undesired operation.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital
device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reason­able protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment gen­erates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accor­dance with manufacturer's instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communi­cations. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular instal­lation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception,
which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try
to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

■ Re-orient or relocate the receiving antenna.

■ Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

■ Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

■ Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

WARNING! The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card is
required to assure compliance with FCC regulations. Changes or modifications to this unit
not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s author­ity to operate this equipment.

Canadian Department of Communications Statement

This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions from digital appa­ratus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications.

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ASUS Contact Information

ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.

Marketing

150 Li-Te Road
Peitou, T aipei, Taiwan 112
[phone] telephone
[phone] fax
[e-mail]

Technical Support

[phone] fax
[phone] BBS
[e-mail]
www.asus.com.tw
ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS

ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL

Marketing

6737 Mowry Avenue
Mowry Business Center, Building 2
Newark, CA 94560, USA
[phone] fax
[e-mail]

Technical Support

[phone] fax
[phone] BBS
[e-mail]
www.asus.com
ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS

ASUS COMPUTER GmbH

Marketing

Harkort Str. 25
40880 Ratingen, BRD, Germany
49-2102-445011 telephone
49-2102-442066 fax
[e-mail]

Technical Support

49-2102-499712 hotline
49-2102-448690 BBS
[e-mail]
www.asuscom.de
ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM

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Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of an ASUS 740DVD Hardware DVD Daughtercard
for the ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator Series. The ASUS 740DVD trans­forms your computer into a full-function DVD player, and provides you with uncom­promising high performance hardware MPEG-2 digital video playback capability.

NOTE Refer to the README.TXT file for important information not available when
this manual was printed. You will find this file on the CD disc supplied with the board
and also in the REALmagic DVD program group after software installation.

Item Checklist

■ ASUS 740DVD Hardware DVD Daughtercard

■ ASUS 740DVD Software (CD disc)

NOTE Throughout this document, references are made to the Windows 95/98 direc-
tory or the CD-ROM drive. In general, the W indows directory is called \WINDOWS,
but this is not mandatory. You may have named it something else (e.g., \WIN, \WIN­DOW95). When references are made to the \WINDOWS directory throughout this
document, you can replace \WINDOWS with your own Windows directory name, if
necessary. This manual also assumes that your CD-ROM drive is drive D:.

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Supported File Formats

Y our ASUS 740DVD supports the following MPEG file formats: DVD (e.g., IFO and

VOB files), MPG files (MPEG-2/MPEG-1), DAT files (Video CD 1.0/2.0), and VBS

and ABS files (MPEG-encoded video only bitstream and audio only bitstream files)..

System Requirements

■ Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.1 or later (Version 4.00.950 B with USB

Update) or Windows 98

■ 16MB of RAM (32MB recommended)

■ ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator

■ Pentium II computer system

■ 10MB of free hard disk space

■ DVD-ROM drive

■ Sound Blaster 16 or compatible sound card

■ Plug and Play BIOS support

■ Bus mastering IDE controller recommended

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Installation

Hardware Installation

The ASUS 740DVD hardware installation assumes that both your ASUS AGP-V2740
and sound system (check the hardware suppliers’ documentation) have been prop­erly installed in your computer.

ASUS 740DVD Parts

EM8220 DVD/MPEG-2

Audio/Video Decoder Chip

SDRAM

ASUS 740DVD Layout

40

39

VMI-B Connector

26

13

VMI-A Connector

2

2

1

1

VMI-B Connector

VMI-A Connector

EM8220

Audio/Video

Decoder Chip

SDRAM

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Installing Y our ASUS 740DVD

■ T urn off the power to your computer and to your monitor . Unplug the power cord

from the computer.

■ Unplug the VGA monitor cable from your PC.

■ Remove the cover from your computer. (Refer to your PC user’s manual for

specific instructions.)

■ Locate the VMI-B Connector (40-pin male) and VMI-A Connector (26-pin fe-

male) on the ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator. If the AGP-V2740
has already been installed on the system board, refer to your user’s manual to
locate these connectors.

■ Plug the corresponding connectors on the 740DVD into the AGP-V2740 and

push gently and firmly to secure the card for proper connection.

ASUS AGP-V2740

ASUS 740DVD (back view) on
ASUS AGP-V2740

■ Make sure that the VGA card is properly seated and installed in the AGP connector.

■ Replace the cover of your PC and reconnect the power cord.

■ Reconnect all cables and replace the cover.

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Software Installation

Windows95/98

The ASUS 740DVD software for Windows 95 and Windows 98 is included on the
CD installation disc.

■ Turn on your computer and switch into Windows 95/98.

■ Insert the installation disc into your CD-ROM drive. The ASUS 740DVD Install

Shell will appear. If it does not appear, run D:\DISK1\SETUP.EXE.

■ Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation process.

WARNING! The ASUS 740DVD integrates Contents Scramble System (CSS) capa­bility, allowing end-users to regionalize their DVD-ROM drive or player up to five
times. Once the drive has been regionalized for the fifth time, its region code is set and
available only for the region for which the drive has been last set. See opposite page for
a list of the CSS Regions.

■ When the setup program is finished installing the necessary software, the Setup

Complete dialog box appears. Click Finish to complete the setup.

The installation process will copy the applications to the
create a REALmagic program group containing DVD Station, Readme,

REALmagic Configutration, and Uninstall.

IMPORTANT Before attempting to play MPEG video, you should have already in-

stalled the drivers for the ASUS AGP-V2740.

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C:\REALmagic folder and