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          Cont ent s       [...]

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          Before Y ou Begin $8;)&#;   &28?#  -%  [...]

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          Insta l ling Y our Graphics Card $  &') #*?[...]

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         F   >  %     %      3 =    [...]

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          Instal ling S of twa re ) 3  $ &' ?[...]

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         ! H ) 3 = &  ?[...]

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    3D Blas t e r A nn i hi lator 2 MX 7 Win dow s 98 1. Turn on y our s ys tem . W indows 98 au tomatically detects the graphics card. An Add New Hardware Wizard dialog b ox appears, informin g you that a display adapt er has been detected. 2. When a dialog box similar to the figure opp osite appears, click Display a list of all the drivers in a speci[...]

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    3D Blas t e r A nn i hi lator 2 MX 8 Win dow s Me 1. Turn on y our s ys tem . 2. W indows Me automatically detects the graphics ca rd. An Add New Hardware Wizard d ialog box appear s, informing you that a display adapter has been detected . 3. W indows will automatically install th e drivers for a Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) (Mic rosoft ) ([...]

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    3D Blas t e r A nn i hi lator 2 MX 9 Wi nd ows 2000 1. T urn on your comp uter . W indows 2000 automatically detects the gr aphics card. Th e “Found New Hardware W izard” dialog box appear s, informing you that a display adapter has been detected. 2. Select the “Search for a suitable driver” option and click the Next button. 3. Insert the 3[...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 10 Changing Settings T o cha nge the display settings in W i nd ows N T 4.0 and Wi nd ows 2000 1. Right-click your de sk top, and then click Pr operties on the shortcu t menu. 2. In t h e Display Properties dialog box, click the Setti ngs tab. 3. In t h e Desktop Area group box, drag the slider to set th e desired reso[...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 1 1 Getting More Information 3D Blaster Annihi lator 2 MX The Help file for 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 MX gives a brief introdu ction to the features suppo rted by this graphics card. T o open the Help file for 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 MX Click Start, select Programs, select Creative, click on Help. Creati ve Blas terCon[...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 12 T ech nical Specific ations Architecture Highlights ❑ Powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX™ ❑ Advanced 256 -bit graphics architec ture ❑ 32MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory ❑ Inter grated hi gh speed 350MH z RAMDAC ❑ 256-bit graphics architecture ❑ AGP 4X, wi th Fast W rites support ( AGP versio n - re[...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 13 2D F eatures ❑ High performan ce 2D, GUI, DirectDraw® ❑ Screen reso lutions u p to 2048 x 1536 ❑ Optimized for 32, 16 and 8-bit p er pixel col or depths ❑ Flicker-f ree refresh rates up to 240Hz Video F eatures ❑ V ideo acceleration for Dir ectShow®, MPEG1, MPEG2 ❑ Enhanced motion compensation for full[...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 14 Ref re s h Rat es The refresh rates show in the table bel ow are support ed by dif ferent video modes (based on 350 MHz RAMDAC). The refresh rates shown in the table are th e hi ghest obta inable and are moni t or-dependent . Resol ution s, pixe l de pt hs , an d refresh rates are also driver- dependen t and may no [...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 15 T rouble shooti ng System Stops Re sponding, Blank Screen or Cor rupted Display After installing 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 MX and star ting your system, the monitor displays a blank screen. Solutions Tr y th e fo llo wi n g: ❑ T urn of f your sy stem and wait a while befo re turning it on again. ❑ V erify th at a[...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 16 Other Display Problems The monitor display flic k ers or the screen goes b lank after Windows starts. Cause Y our monitor may n ot support t he resoluti on or refres h rate that yo u have set. Solution U se dis play se ttin gs sup p orted by th e monit or . T o change th e display set tings: 1. Restart yo ur system [...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 17 Beeping Sounds During System Star tup When the system is star ting up, there is a ser ies of prol onged b eep s. Cause Y o ur 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 MX card may not be firmly inserted into the expansion slot. Solution B e sure that the AGP bus connector of the graphics card is fully inserted into the expansion slo[...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 18 5. In the Inser t Disk dialog bo x, cli ck the  %   & 1  & ' )   #*  -   -?[...]

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          Problem with PCI Bridge (in W ind ows 95) After installing Annihilator 2 MX (AGP versio n) onto a Pentium II LX system or any other AGP system, the Resource s tabbed pa ge of the GeForce2 MX P ropert ies dialog box in Windows 95 shows resource conf licts si[...]

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          !, :% ?[...]

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    3D Blaste r Annihila tor 2 MX 22 No par t of this publi cation may be reprodu ced or tran smitted in any form or by any means with out the pri or wri tten conse nt of C re ative T echnol ogy Ltd. Copyri ght © 2000 Creat ive T e chnology Ltd. All right s reserved. V ersion 1.0 Octobe r 200 0 Anni hilator, Anni hilator 2 MX, Blast er and Blaste rCon[...]