Intergraph Intense 3D Pro 2200S Installation Guide

Intense 3D Pro 2200S

Installation Guide

December 1997
DHA025800

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in your purchase contract, and nothing stated in, or implied by, this document or its
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Trademarks

Intergraph and the Intergraph logo are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation.
Intense 3D is a trademark of Intergraph Corporation.

Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

FCC/DOC Compliance

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 when the equipment is operated in a
residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency
energy. If the equipment is not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, it
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, try to correct the interference as
follows: reorient or relocate the affected device; increase the separation between this
equipment and the affected device; connect this equipment to an outlet on a circuit
different from the circuit to which the affected device is connected; consult a dealer or an
experienced radio/television technician for help.

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.

Warnings

Changes or modifications made to the system that are not approved by the party
responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.

To comply with FCC Class B limits, you must use shielded cables with this device.

Notes

This device is designed and manufactured to comply with approved safety standards for
information processing and business equipment.

Read all operating instructions before using this device. Keep these instructions for
future reference. Follow all warnings on the device or in the operating instructions.

Product Serial Number

Record the serial number printed on the Intense 3D Pro 2200S board before installing the
board in your computer. You will need this number to get technical support and

warranty service. You can record the serial number in Chapter 2, “Preparing for
Installation.”

Warranty

Intergraph Corporation warrants to the purchaser of this product that it will be free from
defects in material and workmanship for a period of three (3) years from the date of
purchase. If the product should become defective within the warranty period, Intergraph
will, at its option, repair or replace it, provided it is delivered at the purchaser’s expense
to the place of purchase or to Intergraph. No other warranty is expressed or implied.

This limited warranty does not cover any loss or damage resulting from shipping,
weather, improper installation or maintenance, accident, misuse, abuse or neglect,
adjustment, repair, modification, or installation of options or parts by anyone other than
Intergraph Corporation. The limited warranty also does not cover improper environment,
excessive or inadequate heating or cooling, or irregularities in electrical power service.
This limited warranty applies only to the original purchaser and is not transferrable.

Intergraph Corporation is not liable for damages arising out of the use or inability to use
this product. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or
consequential damages for consumer products, so these limitations may not apply to you.

To obtain warranty service during the warranty period, the purchaser shall return the
product in its original packaging to the place of purchase along with proof of purchase
showing the purchase date. If the reseller’s warranty period has expired, the purchaser
shall return the product directly to Intergraph. The purchaser shall bear shipping,
packaging, and insurance costs for delivering the product to Intergraph. Intergraph will
provide return shipment to the purchaser.

1 Introduction

Congratulations! In choosing Intense 3D Pro 2200S, you are equipping
your personal computer or personal workstation with powerful and
professional 3D graphics. Intense 3D Pro 2200S infuses Intel

Pentium Pro and Pentium II computers running the Microsoft
Windows NT operating system with workstation-class 3D graphics
features and performance.

Features

Intense 3D Pro 2200S offers these high-end 3D graphics features:

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Performance up to 1.2 million triangles per second (3D,
Z-buffered, 25 pixel, Gouraud shaded).

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Support for Windows NT graphics -- Graphic Device Interface
(GDI) and OpenGL.

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Support for resolutions up to 1.3 megapixels (1280 x 1024).

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Support for Heidi and Intergraph RenderGL graphics libraries.

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Support for graphics features such as Gouraud shading, 2D and 3D
vectors and triangles, texture processing, rectangle fills, antialiased
vectors, clipping, alpha blending, fog, and stenciling.

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16 MB of Synchronous Dynamic RAM (SDRAM) frame buffer
memory.

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Video plane sets of 100 bits per pixel (at 1280 x 1024), 128 bits
per pixel (up to 1152 x 864), and four video lookup tables.

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10-bit gamma correction.

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24- or 32-bit double-buffering and 24-bit Z-buffering.

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Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) interface with direct
memory access (DMA).

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Genlock support for multi-screen capability.

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Integrated VGA video support.

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Support for industry standard and Intergraph multi-sync monitors.

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Hardware support for stereoscopic viewing, Display Data Channel
(DDC), and Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS).

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Hardware Configurations

Intense 3D Pro 2200S hardware is available in these configurations:

Designation

Intense 3D Graphics Accelerator
Intense 3D-4T Graphics Accelerator + 4 MB Texture Memory
Intense 3D-16T Graphics Accelerator + 16 MB Texture Memory

Texture memory is available through a single add-on texture memory
module. Multi-screen capability is available by using multiple Intense
3D Graphics Accelerators (up to four boards to drive four screens).

NOTE In a multi-screen configuration, all Intense 3D Pro 2200S boards

must have the same texture memory configuration.

Intense 3D Pro 2200S hardware requires these PCI expansion slots:

Designation

Intense 3D, Intense 3D-4T,
Intense 3D-16T (Single screen)

Multiple screens (up to four) One slot per screen

WARNING You must leave an open slot adjacent to side 1 (the side with

the texture memory module connector) of each installed
Intense 3D Pro 2200S board, unless you install the board in a
slot in which side 1 is not adjacent to another slot. This

ensures proper cooling for the board’s high-power
components.

Configuration

PCI Expansion Slots

One slot

Software

Intense 3D Pro 2200S software uses the Intense 3D Pro 2200S video
display driver. The video display driver installs as a standard Windows
NT driver, and provides both GDI and OpenGL graphics compatibility.

Intense 3D Pro 2200S can use Intergraph’s Heidi Device Driver, which
works with the video display driver to support software applications
based on the Heidi graphics library. Intense 3D Pro 2200S also works
with applications built with Intergraph’s RenderGL graphics library.
RenderGL works with OpenGL to enable hardware acceleration of
high-quality, photorealistic features on 3D models.

More information on the Heidi Device Driver and Intergraph’s
RenderGL graphics library is available on Intergraph Online (see
Chapter 5).

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2 Preparing for Installation

Follow these instructions to prepare your computer for Intense 3D Pro
2200S.

Make Sure Your Computer Is Ready

Make sure your IBM PC-compatible computer has the following:

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A Pentium Pro or Pentium II processor.

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A high-resolution multi-sync analog RGB monitor.

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Windows NT 4.0 operating system.

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3 MB of free space on the computer’s hard disk.

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PCI expansion slots that support PCI bus mastering.

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A power supply and system board that provide +3.3V to the PCI
bus.

T ake A ntist atic Precautions

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Static electricity can damage the components inside a computer or on a
printed circuit board. To keep the possibility of electrostatic discharge
to a minimum, do the following:

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Turn off power to the computer.

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Touch the metal chassis of the computer to drain off any static
electricity before touching a board.

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Wear a properly connected grounding wrist strap when handling a
board or working in a computer.

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Do not wear wool or polyester clothing.

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Work in an area with a relative humidity of at least 50 percent.

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Do not remove a board from its antistatic bag until you are ready to
install it.

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Handle a board as little as possible and by the edges only.