User manual NVIDIA GF 6800

[. . . ] FCC Information 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 radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may 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: · · · · Reorient the receiving antenna. [. . . ] DirectX® 9 will now be installed in your system, follow the instructions on the screen to complete installation. Figure 10: PNY Software Installation CD 91004099 17 Installing GeForceTM Drivers After installing DirectX® 9 (or DirectX® 8. 1) , the drivers for your graphics card must be installed. When your system restarts, the `Auto-load' install shield will appear, click on the Install Drivers button. If your CD-ROM drive is not auto-detect enabled, click the Start button on the task bar and then select the Run button. Type "D:\launch. exe" in the dialog box and hit enter (where D:\ is the location of your CD-ROM drive ). The VGA Installation dialog box will appear on the screen, follow the instructions on the screen to complete installation. If you have upgraded your graphics card from another nVidia® based card, your system will have older nVidia® drivers installed and you will get the splash screen as shown in Figure 11. It is recommended that you uninstall the nVidia® drivers in your system in order for the new drivers to install properly. Figure 11: Uninstall Existing Drivers Splash Screen 18 91004099 3. 4. 5. To do this, click the Uninstall Existing Drivers button. The existing drivers will be uninstalled and your system will be rebooted. At the time of shipment, the compatibility testing of the graphics card drivers may not have completed. To check for the latest drivers, go to our website at: http://www. pny. com/support Once the drivers are installed, the InstallShield Wizard Complete window will appear as shown in Figure 13. Verify that Yes is selected and then click on Finish to restart your system for the changes to take effect. c. Figure 12: WHQL warning Figure 13: Restart your system 91004099 19 Installing DirectX® 8. 1 If your games do not support DirectX® 9, you may install DirectX® 8. 1. The `Auto-load' install shield will appear as shown in Figure 10, click on the Install DirectX® 8. 1 button. If your CD-ROM drive is not auto-detect enabled, click the Start button on the task bar and then select the Run button. Type "D:\launch. exe" in the dialog box and hit enter (where D:\ is the location of your CDROM drive). DirectX® 8. 1 will now be installed in your system, follow the instructions on the screen to complete installation. You may now proceed to Installing GeForceTM Drivers . 20 91004099 Installing nVidia® WDM Drivers If your PNY GeForceTM graphics card is equipped with Video-In-Video-Out (VIVO) functionality, you must install the nVidia® WDM drivers for proper operation. The `Auto -load' install shield will appear as shown in Figure 10, click on the Bonus Software button. If your CD-ROM drive is not auto-detect enabled, click the Start button on the task bar and then select the Run button. Type "D:\launch. exe" in the dialog box and hit enter (where D:\ is the location of your CD-ROM drive ). Click on the nVidia® WDM Drivers button and follow the instructions on the screen to complete installation. At the time of shipment, the compatibility testing of the WDM drivers may not have completed. [. . . ] option is enabled on this panel, a dialog box will automatically appear warning of the condition and the actions that have been taken to prevent possible overheating and damage to any particular GPUs in your system. Figure 26: Temperature Settings 91004099 33 Refresh Rate Overrides Allows the application to select its own refresh rate. Click `Override refresh rates' to select refresh rate overrides to be used in your applications. Once that is done, the list box will enable you to individually override refresh rates for each resolution. Any other value means to set the refresh rate to the value for full-screen applications. [. . . ]