MSI RX2400PRO-TD256EH, RX2400PRO Quick User Manual

G52-V1102X1

June 2007

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http://www.msi.com.tw

Under the European Union ("EU") Directive on Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment, Directive 2002/96/EC, which takes
effect on August 13, 2005, products of "electrical and electronic
equipment" cannot be discarded as municipal waste anymore
and manufacturers of covered electronic equipment will be
obligated to take back such products at the end of their useful
life.

WARNING!!

DO NOT touch the
cooling system since
it may produce a
certain heat while
processing tasks.

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CAUTION!!

Do not force the GPU
cooler against the
fragile GPU to avoid
damage to the GPU.

MICRO-STAR INT'L
MS-V110

* All trademarks used in this manual are the sole property of their respective owners.

VGA is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

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Macrovision Corporation Product Notice

This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by
method claims of certain U.S. patents and other intellectual property rights owned
by Macrovision Corporation and other right owners. Use of this copyright protection
technology must be authorized by Macrovision Corporation, and is intended for
home and other limited viewing uses only unless otherwise authorized by
Macrovision Corporation. Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited.

Using MSI Live VGA Driver Update

This service enables you to update the latest VGA driver for your VGA card.

1. To update the MSI Live VGA Driver , click Live VGA Driver item on the left
column of the main page.

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2. This utility will start checking your platform and the information on the VGA card, and
display the information in a list.

3. Click the graph button on the bottom to connect MSI Live Update Series Server.
Then, it will automatically connect the Internet and compare the version of the driver
in the database.

4. It may take several minutes to detect the required drivers. Please wait while
proceeding detection.

5. Click the InstallShield Wizard button on the right side of the table to download and
update the driver. All actions will proceed automatically.

6. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the updating procedure.

This service enables you to update the latest VGA BIOS for your VGA card.

1. To update your VGA BIOS, click Live VGA BIOS item on the left column of the main page.

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2. If your VGA card does not support the Live VGA BIOS function, you will receive a warning
message on the screen.

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3. If your VGA card do support the Live VGA BIOS function, please pay attention to the message
shown on the screen telling you that in what circumstance flashing BIOS may fail to reboot.

4. Click Yes if you would like to try it at your own risk or No to return to the main page with
everything unchanged.

5. If you click Yes to continue, it will check the information and BIOS version of your VGA card,
and list them in a table.

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6. Click the graph button at the bottom to connect the MSI Live Update 3 Server.

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7. The MSI Live VGA BIOS will automatically connect the Internet and search the supported

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BIOS in the database of MSI .

8. If it has found one (or several) supported BIOS for your VGA card, click the InstallShield
Wizard button on the right side of the table to have the new BIOS downloaded and updated
automatically.

9. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the updating procedure.

Using MSI Live VGA BIOS Update

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MSI Features

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MSI Features

Installing MSI Live Update

MSI Live Update offers you with brand-new update service experience, which can
significantly save your time while searching files. MSI Live Update is capable to
automatically analyze and list drivers, BIOS, and utilities you need. With the easy-to­use updating approaches, you can increase the performance of your system easily and
quickly. Follow the instructions below, with a few mouse clicks, you can acquire the
related files for the system updating.

Installing from the Disk

1. Insert the supplied disk into the CD-ROM drive, and start the Setup program.

2. Click the Utility tab on the setup screen.

3. Click the MSI Live Update. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the
installation.

Installing from the MSI Web Site

3. Click Start to Check to download
the Live Update application.

4. Click Install the continue.

5. Follow the on-screen instructions to
complete the installation.

6. Launch MSI Live Update and to
enter the main page of this utility
as shown here.

1. Link to MSI's website at
http://www.msi.com.tw

2. Find and click Live Update Online
on the left side of the web page to
enter MSI Download Center.

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Installing MSI Live Update 3

Quick Installation

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Follow the steps to install the VGA card:

1. Remove the computer case.

2. Locate the expansion slot on your mainboard.
Warning: Inserting the VGA card into a wrong
slot may damage your card (refer to your
mainboard manual for more Information).

3. Put the card directly over the slot and
press one end of the card into the slot first.
Gently but firmly press the other end until the
card is fully seated in the slot.

4. Secure the card with a bracket screw.

5. Install all other cards and devices and connect
all the cables, and then install the case.

6. Connect the monitor. Now, you are ready to
install the software on your computer.

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expansion

To install the driver of the VGA card to your computer,

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please follow the steps below:

1. Turn on the computer.

2. Insert the into the CD-ROM drive. The Autorun program will start the Setup
program, and show the setup screen as follows:

Tip : If, on your computer, the
Autorun program does not execute
automatically, please 1) enable the
CD-ROM drive Auto-detect function
from Control Panel; or 2) find and
run the setup.exe file manually from
the CD.

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Getting Started

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Getting Started

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Overview

Note: The VGA card shown here may vary from the actual card.
For further information, please visit MSI website at www.msi.com.tw

PCI Express Interface

DVI Port

512MB DDR2 memory or
256MB DDR2 memory or
128MB DDR2 memory

2400PROATI Radeon HD

ArchitectureHyperMemory is AMD's technology for utilizing and managing system memory

as an extension to the local video memory. The amount of system memory allocated for
use by the graphics chip varies with the amount of system memory available and operating
system (OS variants covered in this advisory Windows 2000, Windows XP 32-bit edition,
and Windows XP 64-bit edition, HyperMemory support under Windows Vista is covered in
a separate advisory).

Anti-Aliasing Filtering:

Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 4 samples per pixel)
Enhanced quality per sample with custom filters (CFAA)
Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
Temporal anti-aliasing
Gamma correct
Super AA (CrossFire configurations only)
All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR and depth/shadow rendering.

Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10

PCI Express x16 bus interface

OpenGL 2.0 support

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System Requirements

Card Features

For reference only

Unpacking

Please check out the following items to make sure that you get the complete product:
VGA card
Disk: Drivers, documentation, and applications
Consult your dealer immediately if anything is missing or damaged.

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

Intel Pentium III (and above), AMD K7 (and above), or compatible with expansion slot
128MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
Operation System Support: visit MSI website for further information
Power supply of 400 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability
For DVI-HDMI adapter, please visit http://ati.amd.com/ to get the compatible mainboard

information.

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Fan Connector

TV_Out Connector (S)
HDTV-Output integrated

3. Click ATI VGA Drivers. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

4. After finishing the installation, restart the computer as instructed.

Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture

40 stream processing units
128-bit floating point precision for all operations
Programmable tessellation unit
Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
Shader instruction and constant caches
Memory read/write cache
Up to 16 texture fetches per clock cycle and up to 128 textures per pixel
Fully associative vertex/texture cache design
DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z & stencil compression
Fully associative texture & Z/stencil cache designs
8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support

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ATI Avivo HD Video and Display Platform

Two independent display controllers

- Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color
controls and video overlays for each display

- Full 30-bit display processing

- HDR tone mapping acceleration maps 16-bit per channel floating point pixel formats to
10-bit per channel output

- Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space
conversion
Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays

- High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs

- Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays

- Fast, glitch-free mode switching

- Hardware cursor

Two integrated DVI display outputs

- Primary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200
(single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)

- Secondary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200
(single-link DVI only)

- Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution

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playback of protected content

Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs

- Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x1536

HDMI output support

- Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x1080

- Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play
cable-less audio solution

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Integrated AMD Xilleon HDTV encoder

- Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)

- Supports SDTV (480i/525i) and HDTV (480p/720p/1080i) resolutions

- Underscan and overscan compensation

High definition H.264/AVC, VC-1, DivX and MPEG-2 decode acceleration

- Flawless DVD and HD-DVD/Blu-Ray playback

- Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing

- De-blocking and noise reduction filtering

- Detail enhancement

- Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)

- Bad edit correction

- Motion compensation and IDCT

- High fidelity gamma correction, color correction, color space conversion, and scaling

MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
VGA mode support on all display outputs

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D-Sub Port

Local Memory

System Memory

128MB

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256MB

256MB

256MB

128MB

512MB

1G

512MB

256MB or

1G

256MB

512MB

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