Please switch on your monitor before you switch on your computer. Doing it the other way around could damage your monitor.
The SPEA board has been designed to 'plug & play' without any modifications being made to the default switch or jumper settings. If however, it appears that the card is not performing optimally, you can change the settings. Refer to Appendix B: Technical Details for more information.
Note that your monitor is running in standard modes and that higher refresh rates etc. are not available at this stage of the installation! It is necessary to run the programs SPTUNE.EXE (for DOS applications) and V7SETUP.EXE (for Windows) in order to optimize the board's output signals for use with specific monitors. These programs are described further on in this manual.
Hardware Compatibility:
the VL/PCI Bus and the Graphics Board
The functionality of a graphics system depends mainly on two components: the graphics board and the mainboard.
If either the design of the VL bus or the PCI mainboard is not compliant with the approved VESA or PCI specifications you may experience problems with the graphics board.
SPEA has successfully tested the SPEA VL bus graphics boards in VL bus mainboard with a clock rate of 40 MHz and PCI bus mainboards with a clock rate of 66 Mhz.
