MSI MS-8952, MS-8940, MS-8961, MS-8962, MS-8964 User Manual

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USER’S GUIDE

Version 5.0

December 2004

G52-V1ARX05

RX Series

FCC-B Radio Frequency Interference Statement

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 commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference, in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.

Notice 1

The changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.

Notice 2

Shielded interface cables and A.C. power cord, if any, must be used in order to comply with the emission limits.

VOIR LA NOTICE D’INSTALLATION AVANT DE RACCORDER AU RESEAU.

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the follow-

ing two conditions:

(1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and

(2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may

cause undesired operation.

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Always read and follow these basic safety precautions carefully when handling any

piece of electronic component.

1. Keep this User’s Manual for future reference.

2. Keep this equipment away from humidity.

3. Lay this equipment on a stable, flat surface before setting it up.

4. The openings on the enclosure are for air convection, hence they protect the equipment from overheating.

5. Make sure the voltage of the power source and adjust properly 110/220V before connecting the equipment to the power inlet.

6. Place the power cord in a way that people are unlikely to step on it. Do not place anything on the power cord.

7. Always Unplug the Power Cord before inserting any add-on card or module.

8. All cautions and warnings on the equipment should be noted.

9. Never pour any liquid into the opening that could damage the equipment or cause an electrical shock.

10. If any of the following situations arise, get the equipment checked by a service personnel:

The power cord or plug is damaged Liquid has penetrated into the equipment The equipment has been exposed to moisture The equipment has not functioned properly or in accordance with the User’s

Guide The equipment was dropped and damaged

The equipment has obvious signs of breakage

11. DO NOT LEAVE THE EQUIPMENT IN AN UNCONDITIONED ENVIRONMENT WITH A STORAGE TEMPERATURE OF 600 C (1400F) OR ABOVE. IT MAY DAMAGE THE EQUIPMENT.

Important Safety Precautions

Chapter 1 Getting Started

1.1 How to Use this Guide .................................................................................. 1-2

1.2 Conventions of this Guide ............................................................................ 1-3

Chapter 2 Introduction

2.1 System Requirements ................................................................................... 2-2

2.2 Card List ........................................................................................................ 2-3

RX850 Series .......................................................................................... 2-3

RX800 Series ........................................................................................ 2-10

RX700 Series ........................................................................................ 2-30

RX600 Series ........................................................................................ 2-38

RX300 Series ........................................................................................ 2-48

RX9800 Series ...................................................................................... 2-58

RX9600 Series ...................................................................................... 2-64

RX9550 Series ...................................................................................... 2-72

RX9250/RX9200 Series ........................................................................ 2-78

Chapter 3 Hardware Installation

3.1 Card Installation ............................................................................................. 3-2

3.2 D-Sub Port (DB 15-Pin) ................................................................................. 3-5

3.3 Digital Panel Connector (DVI-I) ...................................................................... 3-6

3.4 TV_Out Connector (C) .................................................................................. 3-7

3.5 TV_Out Connector (S) .................................................................................. 3-7

3.6 Video_In Connector (C) ................................................................................ 3-8

3.7 Video_In Connector (S) ................................................................................ 3-8

3.8 TV_Out Connector (S & C) ........................................................................... 3-9

3.9 TV_Out / Video_In Connector (S & C) ....................................................... 3-11

Chapter 4 Software Installation

4.1 Installing the VGA Card Drivers ................................................................... 4-2

4.2 Browsing the Web ........................................................................................ 4-3

4.3 More Information ........................................................................................... 4-3

4.4 Display Adjustment ....................................................................................... 4-4

Chapter 5 MSI Live Update 3

5.1 Installing the MSI Live Update 3 with MSI Live Monitor ................................ 5-2

5.2 Using the MSI Live Update 3 ......................................................................... 5-3

5.3 Live VGA Driver Update ............................................................................... 5-4

5.4 Live VGA BIOS Update ................................................................................. 5-8

5.5 Live Utility .................................................................................................... 5-14

5.6 How to Use the MSI Live Monitor ............................................................... 5-15

5.7 Contact Us .................................................................................................. 5-22

5.8 Twin-BIOS™ (Optional) .............................................................................. 5-23

Chapter 6 Troubleshooting

6.1 General Help ................................................................................................. 6-2

6.2 Display Problem ............................................................................................. 6-3

CONTENTS

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GETTING STARTED

This user’s guide is designed for a series of VGA cards. Read this chapter first, and it will give you a clear instruction on how to use this guide.

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Chapter 1

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This user’s guide is designed for a series of VGA cards. Before you start reading this guide, find out the product name of the VGA card you have just purchased on the gift box, and look for the specification and function description in next chapter in accordance with the product name of your VGA card .

Chapter 2, INTRODUCTION, provides the brief specification and function of each VGA card. For detailed description of all functions, you may refer to the rest of the chapters. Note that the VGA card you purchased may not cover all functions mentioned herein; therefore, it is recommended to read the “Reference” information first, which indexes the correspoding founction description of each different VGA card, and then find the proper function description for your VGA card in the other chapters.

Chapter 3, HARDWARE INSTALLATION, tells you how to install your VGA card into your computer correctly, and the function of each connector on the VGA card. Also note that your VGA card may not cover all functions mentioned in this chapter. Check on Chapter 2, INTRODUCTION, for the specification of the VGA card you purchased if you have any problem finding the proper function description for your card.

Chapter 4, SOFTWARE INSTALLATION, describes how to install MSI VGA card software for Windows XP, or 2000, including the driver and useful utilities.

Chapter 5, MSI LIVE UPDATE 3, a useful utility for you to upgrade your MSI mainboard and VGA card. Because of this powerful capacity of this utility, you are allowed to easily download and automatically upgrade the BIOS and the up-to-date drivers on-line, without spending extra time on searching Web sites to find the desired BIOS or drivers.

1.1 How to Use this Guide

Getting Started

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Layout

RX9800-

TD128

MSI reminds you...

TV_Out functions only work through S-Video connection.

ATI Radeon 9800 GPU 128MB DDR RAM Flash BIOS AGP Interface

Fan connector D-Sub Port (DB 15-Pin) DVI-I connector TV_Out Connector (S & C)

Package Contents

Unpack the package and inspect all the items carefully. If any item contained is damaged or missing, please contac t your local dealer as soon as possible. Also, keep the box and packing materials in case you need to ship the unit in the future.

Your VGA card package should contain the follow ing items:

VGA Card

Sof tware Pack C ds

Users' Manual

Reference

2. Introduction............... ........................... .................... .........2-1

3. Hardware Installation

3.1 Card Installation...... ..................................... ................3-2

3.2 VGA Connector (DB 15-Pin)....... ............................ .........3-4

3.3 Digital Panel Connector (DVI-I)...... ........................... ......3-5

3.5 TV_Out Connector (S)......... .................................. ......... 3-6

4. Software Installation.................. ......................... ................ 4-1

5. MSI Live Update 3

5.1 Installing the MSI Live Update 3 with MSI Live Monitor......... 5-2

5.2 Using the MSI Live Update 3 ............................... ............ 5-3

5.3 Live VGA Drive Update................................. ..................5-4

5.4 Live VGA BIOS Update............................................ ........5-8

5.5 Live Utility........................... ........................ .................5-14

5.6 How to Use the MSI Live Monitor....................... ..............5-15

5.7 Contact Us.............. ......................................... ...........5-22

6. Troubleshooting............. ........................... ..................... .....6-1

1.2 Conventions of this Guide

Read the conventions of this guide, and it will give you an idea about how this guide is designed and how this guide should be used.

The product name of the VGA card

The layout of the VGA card

The components on the VGA card

Corresponding function for each particular VGA card

The package contents of this VGA card

Important information that should be paid attention to

Chapter 1

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INTRODUCTION

This chapter provides the brief specification and function of each VGA card. For detailed description of all functions, you may refer to the rest of the chapters. Note that the VGA card you purchased may not cover all functions mentioned herein; therefore, it is recommended to read the “Reference” information first, which indexes the correspoding function description of each different VGA card, and then find the proper function description for your VGA card in the other chapters.

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Chapter 2

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2.1 System Requirements

To install the VGA card, your system needs to meet the following

Computer Intel® Pentium II/III/4 processor,

Intel® Celeron processor, or compatible system

Expansion Slot AGP / PCI EXPRESS slot

Monitor VGA support, minimum 640 x 480

resolution

Operating System Windows® 2000, XP

CD-ROM Drive Double Speed or Higher

Introduction

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2.2 Card List

Features & Specifications

RX850 Series

 Twelve extreme parallel pixel pipelines  Six programmable vertex shader pipelines  256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface  AGP 8X or PCI Express support  Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel

shadersl data format

 Direct X 9.0 Vertex Shaders

- Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control

- Single cycle trigonometric operations

 Direct X 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders

- Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass

- 2nd generation F-buffer technology accelerates multi-pass pixel

shader programs with unlimited instructions

- 32 temporary and constant registers

- Facing register for two-sided lighting

- 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats

- Multiple Render Target (MRT) support

 Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions  2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes

- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programma-

ble sample patterns, and centroid sampling

- Temporal Anti-Aliasing

 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes

- Up to 128-tap texture filtering

- Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear

(quality) options

 High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression  Works with any two-channel data format  3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Eany Z Test  Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)  Fast Z-Buffer Clear  Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering  Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time  FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and

WMV9 formats

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Features & Specifications

 VIDEOSOAP™ noise removal filtering for captured video  MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration

- DXVA Support

- Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space

conversion

 Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion

(temporal filtering)

 0.11-micron low-k process technology for higher levels of integra-

tion and higher operating clock speeds.

PERFORMANCES (for RX850XT PLATINUM series) (For Reference Only)

 Memory Bandwidth: 37.8GB/sec. (This value is for reference only,

depending on the type/size of memory implemented)

 GigaFLOPS: 207 billion floating point operations/sec.  Peak Pixel Fill Rate: 8.6 GB/s  Transform Rate: 810 million vertices/sec.  Textures applied per pass: supports up to 16 textures per pass

PERFORMANCES (for RX850XT series)(For Reference Only)

 Memory Bandwidth: 34.6GB/sec. (This value is for reference only,

depending on the type/size of memory implemented)

 GigaFLOPS: 200 billion floating point operations/sec.  Peak Pixel Fill Rate: 8.3 GB/s  Transform Rate: 780 million vertices/sec.  Textures applied per pass: supports up to 16 textures per pass

PERFORMANCES (for RX850PRO series)(For Reference Only)

 Memory Bandwidth: 24.6GB/sec. (This value is for reference only,

depending on the type/size of memory implemented)

 GigaFLOPS: 159 billion floating point operations/sec.  Peak Pixel Fill Rate: 6.2 GB/s  Transform Rate: 780 million vertices/sec.  Textures applied per pass: supports up to 12 textures per pass

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Features & Specifications

 Operating Systems Support Windows® XP / 2000  Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for

system stability

 2D Display Modes: Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates

(Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

- 640 x 480 200Hz

- 800 x 600 200Hz

- 1024 x 768 200Hz

- 1152 x 864 200Hz

- 1280 x 1024 160Hz

- 1600 x 1200 120Hz

- 1920 x 1080 120Hz

- 1920 x 1200 100Hz

- 1920 x 1440 90Hz

- 2048 x 1536 85Hz

Chapter 2

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Layout

ATI Radeon X850XT Platinum GPU/

ATI Radeon X850XT GPU/

ATI Radeon X850PRO GPU

256MB DDR3 RAM or

128MB DDR3 RAM

PCI Express Interface

Fan Connector

Power Connector

DVI-I Connector

TV_Out / Video_In

Connector (S&C)

HDTV intergtated

DVI-I Connector

RX850XT Platinum-VT2D256E RX850XT Platinum-VT2D128E RX850XT -VT2D256E RX850XT -VT2D128E RX850PRO -VT2D256E RX850PRO -VT2D128E

MSI reminds you...

Note that the VGA card shown above may vary from the actual card. For further information, please visit MSI

website at http://www.msi.com.tw

Introduction

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Package Contents

Unpack the package and inspect all the items carefully. If any item contained is damaged or missing, please contact your local dealer as soon as possible. Also, keep the box and packing materials in case you need to ship the unit in the future.

Your VGA card package should contain the following items:

VGA Card

Software Pack CDs

User’s Manual

Reference

2. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................ 2-1

3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ......................................................... 3-1

3.1 Card Installation ..................................................................... 3-2

3.2 D-Sub Port (DB 15-Pin) ......................................................... 3-5

3.3 Digital Panel Connector (DVI-I) .............................................3-6

3.9 TV_Out / Video_In Connector (S&C) .................................. 3-11

4. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ......................................................... 4-1

5. MSI LIVE UPDATE 3 ....................................................................... 5-1

5.1 Installing MSI Live Update 3 with MSI Live Monitor ..............5-2

5.2 Using the MSI Live Update 3 .................................................. 5-3

5.3 Live VGA Drive Update ........................................................... 5-4

5.4 Live VGA BIOS Update ........................................................... 5-8

5.5 Live Utility ............................................................................. 5-14

5.6 How to Use the MSI Live Monitor .........................................5-15

5.7 Contact Us ............................................................................5-22

6. TROUBLESHOOTING ................................................................... 6-1

DVI-I / VGA Adapter

Power Cord

S-Video to HDTV Connecting Cable

(All accessories are subject to change without notice.)

Chapter 2

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RX850XT-TD256E RX850XT-TD128E RX850PRO-TD128E RX850PRO-TD256E

Layout

MSI reminds you...

Note that the VGA card shown above may vary from the actual card. For further information, please visit MSI

website at http://www.msi.com.tw

ATI Radeon X850XT GPU or

ATI Radeon X850PRO GPU

256MB DDR3 RAM or

128MB DDR3 RAM

PCI Express Interface

Fan Connector

Power Connector

D-Sub Port (DB 15-Pin)

TV_Out Connector (S)

HDTV intergtated

DVI-I Connector

Introduction

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Package Contents

Unpack the package and inspect all the items carefully. If any item contained is damaged or missing, please contact your local dealer as soon as possible. Also, keep the box and packing materials in case you need to ship the unit in the future.

Your VGA card package should contain the following items:

VGA Card

Software Pack CDs

User’s Manual

Reference

DVI-I / VGA Adapter

2. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................ 2-1

3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION......................................................... 3-1

3.1 Card Installation ..................................................................... 3-2

3.2 D-Sub Port (DB 15-Pin) ......................................................... 3-5

3.3 Digital Panel Connector (DVI-I) ............................................. 3-6

3.5 TV_Out Connector (S) ........................................................... 3-7