MS-8801 Trident
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Blade 3D 9880
Graphics Accelerator
User’s Guide
VERSION 1.0
1999/02/25 ROC
T rident® Blade 3D 9880
M S - 8801
Graphics Accelerator
User’s Guide
MS-8801 Trident
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Blade 3D 9880
Graphics Accelerator
User’s Guide
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’INST ALLA TION A V ANT DE RACCORDER AU
RESEAU.
MICRO-ST AR
FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE
Tested to Comply
with FCC Standard
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Graphics Accelerator
User’s Guide
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 MS-8801 Trident Blade 3D 9880
Graphics Accelerator
1. Overview ............................................................... 1-1
2. Features................................................................ 1-1
Chip List...........................................................................1-1
General Features..............................................................1-1
2D Acceleration ............................................................ 1- 1
3D Acceleration ............................................................ 1- 2
Rendering Engine ......................................................... 1-2
T exturing Engine ........................................................... 1-2
Full Software Support ................................................... 1-2
Supports super high resolution graphics modes .......... 1-2
Motion Video Acceleration ............................................. 1-2
3. System Requirements..................................................1-3
4. Package Contents.........................................................1-3
5. Card Layout....................................................................1-4
6. DB 15 Pin Connector .....................................................1-5
7. Vertical Refresh Rate.....................................................1-6
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Chapter 2 Installation of Trident
Blade 3D ......
9880 VGA Driver
1. Driver .....................................................................................2 - 1
1.1 Install Enhance Drivers for Windows® 95/98 ........................2- 1
1.2 Install Enhance Drivers for Windows® NT ............................2 - 6
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Chapter 1
MS-8801 T rident® Blade 3D 9880 Graphics Accelerator
1. Overview
The MS-8801Trident® Blade 3D 9880 Graphics Accelerator
brings to the PC unparalleled price/performance 3D graphics,
combining advanced per pixel 3D setup and rendering with 2D
graphical user interface (GUI) acceleration. The Blade 3D 9880
THAMA
TM
(Trident Hardware Assisted MPEG-2 Architecture)
brings DVD playback to the multimedia PC. The MS-8801
uses high performance SGRAM.
2. Features
Chip List:
r Trident® Blade 3D 9880 : 2D & 3D accelerator processor .
General Features
l Fully integrated 64-bit VGA/2D/3D/V ideo Accelerator
l High resolution 1600x1200 85Hz with a 230MHz RAMDAC
l Support 8M SGRAM
l AGP 2x, Sideband Addressing and Execute Mode
2D Acceleration
l Hardware acceleration of Bitblt, Line Draw , Polygon/
Rectangle Fill, Bit Masking, Monochrome Expansion,
Panning/Scrolling, Scissoring, full ROP support and
hardware cursor (64x64x2)
l Game acceleration including support for Microsoft’s
DirectDraw: Double Buffering, V irtual Sprites, Transparent
Blit, Masked Blit and Context Chaining
l 8/15/16/32-bit per pixel color format
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3D Acceleration
l Integrated 1 million triangle/s set-up engine reduces CPU
and bus bandwidth requirements
l 4K on-chip texture cache
l Edge anti-aliasing
l Modulate alpha function
l Composite alpha modulate
l 32-bit color rendering
Rendering Engine
l Gourard and Flat Shading
l Scene Anti-aliasing
l OpenGL compliant blending for fog and depth cueing
T exturing Engine
l Anisotropic, Tri-linear , Bi-Linear, Point-Sampled Filtering
l Perpective Correction
l Mip-Mapping with 11 Levels-of-Detail
Full Software Support
l WHQL Certified Driver
l Windows® 95 and 98 Display Drivers
l Windows® NT 3.5, 4.0, and 5.0 Display Drivers
l Direct3D, DirectDraw , and DirectVideo
l OpenGL ICD support
Supports super high resolution graphics modes
l 640x480 8/16/32 bit colors with 160Hz
l 800x600 8/16/32 bit colors with 160Hz
l 1024x768 8/16/32 bit colors with 120Hz
l 1280x1024 8/16 bit colors with 100Hz
l 1600x1200 8/16 bit colors with 85Hz
Motion Video Acceleration
l Support DVD 1.0, VCD 2.0, and Cd-Karaoke
l Motion Compensation for full frame DVD playback
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4. Package Contents
Before installing the MS-8801 VGA card, please check
to make sure that your package is complete:
l VGA card
l CD-ROM
- drivers and applications on CD-ROM
- documentation on CD-ROM
l User’s Guide on CD-ROM
3. System Requirements
T o install MS-8801 VGA card, your computer system
needs to meet the following requirements:
Computer Intel Pentium® processor, Intel
Pentium® II/III processor or compatible system
Expansion Slot AGP slot
Monitor VGA Support, minimum 640x480
resolution
Operating system W indows® 95/98, Windows® NT
3.51 or 4.0.
CD-ROM Double Speed or Higher
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5. Card Layout
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U4
U6
J1
Y1
U3
U5
Q2
Q1
U2U1
CON 1
CON 2
U4 Trident 9880 Blade 3D AGP
Graphics Processor
U1/U2/U3/U5 SGRAM 512Kx32/SGRAM 1Mx32
U6 VGA BIOS
Y 1 Crystal 14.31818MHz
J1 VGA Connector D-SUB 15-pin
Q2 TL431 DIP
Q1 MOSFET TO-252 N-TYPE
CON1/CON2 VMI port
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6. DB 15 Pin Connector
Analog Video Display Connector(DB15-S)
Pin Signal Description
1 Red
2 Green
3 Blue
4 Not used
5 Ground
6 Ground
7 Ground
8 Ground
9 Not used
10 Ground
11 Not used
1 2 SDA
1 3 Horizontal Sync
14 Vertical Sync
15 SCL
1
5
6
10
11
15
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Resolution Color Vertical Refresh (Hz)
640x480 8bit, 16bit, 32bit 60,70,72,75,85,100,120,160
800x600 8bit, 16bit, 32bit 60,70,72,75,85,100,120,160
1024x768 8bit, 16bit, 32bit 60,70,72,75,85,100,120
1280x1024 8bit, 16bit 60,70,72,75,85,100
1600x1200 8bit, 16bit 60,70,72,75,85
7. V ertical Refresh Rate
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1. Driver
1.1 Install Enhance Drivers for Windows® 95/98
After installing the MS-8801 VGA card into the mainboard, Windows® 95/98 will auto-detect changes in your hardware configuration; this will install the Standard VGA Driver . T o get the maximum
performance, you need to install the MS-8801 driver .
Before installing MS-8801 driver , you need to install theW indows
®
95 OSR2 USB supplement to support the AGP function. Windows
®
98 need not install this.
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T o install MS-8801 enhanced driver , follow the steps below:
Step 1: Insert the CD_Title provided into your CD-ROM drive.
After inserting the CD_Title, this will autorun showing this window .
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Step 2: Click on Install VGA Drivers button.
Step 3: Click on the Next button. This will copy the necessary
files into the hard drive.
Step 4: Click on the Finish button.
Choose Yes, I want to restart my computer now.
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New Display Properties:
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This function is used for setting Color
palette, Desktop Area and Refresh rate.
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This function is used to show the chip
version and memory size.
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This function is used for setting Gamma
Adjustment.
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1.2 Install Enhance Drivers For Windows® NT
You need to install the Windows® NT 4.0 “Service Pack 3”, before
installing the driver .
After installing MS-8801Card, Windows® NT will default to Standard
VGA mode 640x480x16 colors.
T o install MS-8801 enhanced driver , follow the steps below:
Step 1: Insert the CD_Title provided into your CD-ROM drive.
After inserting the CD_Title, this will autorun showing this window .
Step 2: Click on Install VGA Drivers button.
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Step 3: Click on the Next button. This will copy the necessary
files into the hard drive.
Step 4: Click on the Finish button.
Choose Yes, I want to restart my computer now.
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Using Display Properties new function:
This function is used to show the Display
Driver version, chip version and memory
size.
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This function is used for setting Color palette,
Desktop Area and Refresh rate.
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