ATI Technologies GL 8800 specifications Installing the Hardware and Software

10 Installing the Hardware and Software

Are you planning a multi-monitor system?

•You may connect two monitors to the Fire GL 8800.

•If DDC support is available, the respective resolution and refresh rate for each monitor is automatically detected.

•Desktop Management utilities

HYDRAVISIONTM DualScreen

Are you installing your Fire GL 8800 in place of a card from another manufacturer?

Do you have an integrated graphics solution on the motherboard?

Before you install your Fire GL 8800 card, we recommend that you first uninstall the the driver for your current graphics card.

Windows NT 4.0: Reconfigure your operating system to use the standard display driver (VGA). For more information about changing to the VGA driver, see your operating system documentation.

Please refer to the manual or contact your motherboard manufacturer to determine how to disable your on-board graphics.

Plug-n-Play?The card has been designed to take advantage of 'plug–n-play' without requiring additional hardware installation or configuration.

The illustrations do The illustrations provided in this section not show your card? are for instructional use only; the card

shown may look different than the one you purchased.