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User’s Guide

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NVIDIA Graphic Cards User’s Guide Doc No.
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Copyright / Disclaimer Copyright Copyright  2001. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company.
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FCC Statement FCC Class 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 FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
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GeForce4 Ti – Ferocious Graphics Power GeForce4 Ti - Ferocious Graphics Power The GeForce4 Ti graphics processing unit (GPU) is the first consumer GPU capable of driving complex geometries and character animations.
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GeForce4 Ti – Ferocious Graphics Power nfiniteFX II Engine The NVIDIA nfiniteFX II Engine incorporates dual programmable Vertex Shaders, faster Pixel Shaders and 3D textures. The nfiniteFX II Engine gives developers the freedom to program a virtually infinite number of custom special effects to create true-to-life characters and environments.
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GeForce4 Ti – Ferocious Graphics Power Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) Guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software. Advanced Pixel Shaders Part of the nfiniteFX II Engine, advanced Pixel Shaders alter lighting and surface effects that replace artificial, computerized looks with materials and surfaces that mimic reality.
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GeForce4 Ti – Ferocious Graphics Power Lossless Z-Compression LMA II contains a lossless form of Z-compression that delivers a 4:1 benefit. Compression is a crucial technique in saving memory bandwidth for higher performance. Microsoft DirectX 8.X and OpenGL 1.3 Optimizations and Support Delivers the best performance and guarantees compatibility with all current and future 3D applications and games. Quad Cache LMA II contains a caching system for primitives, vertices, textures and pixels.
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Hardware Installation Item Check l l l Graphics Card User’s Guide Drivers & Utilitys CD Installation Procedures Caution : Static electricity can severely damage electronic parts, Take these precautions: l Before touching any electronic part, drain the static electricity from your body. You can do this by touching the internal metal frame of your computer while it's unplugged. l Don't remove a card from the anti-static container until you are ready to install it.
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Hardware Installation Before You Begin Before you process next step, make sure your computer system meets the peripheral requirements and switch to standard VGA display driver. Prepare Your Computer for Installation Prior to working on your computer, make sure the power and any related equipment are turned off.
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Hardware Installation How to Connect the Monitor? Plug your monitor cable into the monitor connector on your AGP graphics card. Make sure the other end of the monitor cable is properly connected to your monitor. Installation Procedures For the first time Installation Locate the AGP bus expansion slot, make sure this slot is unobstructed. 1. Remover the corresponding expansion slot cover from the computer chassis. 2. Ground yourself to an anti-static mat or other grounded source. 3.
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Windows ME / 98 / 95 Installation Windows ME / 98 / 95 Installation Procedures Caution: l l l Before installing the display driver, make sure your Windows ME/98/95 is installed in VGA mode and works fine. To take advantage of all the AGP features, please use Windows 95 OSR2.1 ( or later version ), or Windows ME / 98. Otherwise, you can use OSR2.0 and install USBSUPP.EXE from Microsoft to upgrade to OSR2.
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Windows ME / 98 / 95 Installation Setup Standard VGA Mode ( For Upgrading ) 1. Start Windows ME/98/95 . Click mouse right button on the desktop and select Properties from the popup menu, or double click on the Display icon from the Control Panel folder. 2. Select Setting->Advanced ( or select Setting->Advanced Properties for Windows 95 ), then select Adapter page, and click change button.
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Windows ME / 98 / 95 Installation 3. When Update Device Drivers Wizard dialog box appears on screen, select Display a list of all drivers, so you can select the driver you want. 4. Select Standard display types from the manufacturers and select Standard PCI Display Adapter( VGA ) from the Models then click OK button. 4. 5. After complete installing Standard VGA Driver. Click Close button and restart Windows to enable Standard VGA Mode After system reboot. You may begin to setup VGA driver..
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Windows ME / 98 / 95 Installation Setup Display Card Driver ( Auto Setup ) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Start Windows(95/98/ME/NT/2000 or XP) and insert the Installation CD disk into the CD-ROM drive. The Installation Wizard will appear, please select VGA Driver to setup. Display Driver Setup Application will check your Windows to make sure your system is working fine, If you see any warning message, please click Abort to stop setup. If not, please click Continue to begin setup.
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Windows ME / 98 / 95 Installation Setup Display Card Driver ( Manual Setup ) * Please Note : All screen snapshot were using GeForce2 Ti as sample. 3. Select Setting->Advanced (or select 1. Start Windows ME/98/95 Setting->Advanced Properties for Windows 95), 2. Click mouse right button on the desktop and select then select Adapter page, and click change button. Properties from the popup menu, or double click on the Display icon from the Control Panel folder.
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Windows ME / 98 / 95 Installation 4. When Update Device Drivers Wizard dialog box appears on screen, select Show specify the location of the driver to show all VGA devices. 5. Click Have Disk button from the Select Device dialog box.
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Windows ME / 98 / 95 Installation 6. Enter the driver path (D:\Driver\WinMe9x) or click Browse button to select driver directory. 7. Select your VGA model and click OK. 8. After complete installing VGA display driver, click Finish button and restart Windows to enable VGA Driver.
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NVIDIA Friendly Utilities * All screen snapshot were using GeForce2 Ti as sample. System Information 1. Click mouse right button on the desktop and select Properties from the popup menu, or double click on the Display icon from the Control Panel folder, then click Advanced button.
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NVIDIA Friendly Utilities Additional Properties Follow step in System Information Section, click Additional Properties button. A. Color Correction B. Direct3D Setting You can adjust the brightness, contrast, and gamma values of the screen output from the Color Correction Page. You can adjust the mipmapping, anti-aliasing configuration of your Direct3D setting. Click Save As button to save your current setting as different schema, then you may restore the setting back whenever you need.
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NVIDIA Friendly Utilities B. Direct3D Setting C. OpenGL Setting Click Advanced button to adjust Texel Alignment, for Direct3D, or turn on Direct3D Hardware Antialiasing. You can adjust the detail configuration of your OpenGL setting, like V-Sync wating, buffer region extension.
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NVIDIA Friendly Utilities D. Overlay Color Control E. Output Device Settings You can adjust your Video Overlay color setting from this page, Please note that this page will not enable only when video overlay is turn on You may adjust your output device setting on this page ( etc.
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Windows XP / 2000 / NT Installation Windows XP / 2000 Installation *All Screen snopshot were using GeForce2 Ti as sample. Setup Display Card Driver ( Manual setup ) 1. Start Windows XP / 2000 and insert the Installation CD disk into the CD-ROM drive. 2. Click mouse right button upon My Computer and select Properties from the popup menu 3. Select Hardware and then click Device Manager button.
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Windows XP / 2000 / NT Installation 4. The Windows XP / 2000 Device Manager dialog appears, click mouse right button upon Video Controller in others device. Then select Property from popup menu. 5. Select Reinstall Driver button.
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Windows XP / 2000 / NT 4 Installation 6. Select the “Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)“ item, and then click Next button. 7. Select the "Dont Search. I will choose the driver to install“ item, and then click Next button.
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Windows XP / 2000 / NT Installation 8. Select Display Adapter and press Next. 9. Click Have Disk button so that you can select display driver from CD disk.
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Windows XP / 2000 / NT 4 Installation 10. Enter D:\Driver\Win2000 or D:\Driver\WinXP, then click OK. 12. A warning dialog “Hardware Installation“ will shown if the driver that you choose is not Microsoft WHQL.certified one, anyway, please click “Continue Anyway“ button to continue the installation procedures. 11. Select the graphic card, then click Next button. 13. After finish installation.
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Windows XP / 2000 / NT Installation Windows NT 4 installation Caution : l Before installing the display driver, make sure your Windows NT is installed in standard VGA mode and works fine. l Please install the Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 ( or above version ) before installing the video driver. Otherwise, the system may hang up and won't be able to start up. l D: present the drive containing the Installation CD disk. Setup Standard VGA Mode 1. Start Windows NT 2. Select Windows NT VGA Mode 3.
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Windows XP / 2000 / NT 4 Installation Setup Display Card Driver ( Auto setup ) Please refer to Chapter 2.3 for Auto-Setup installation procedures. Setup Display Card Driver ( Manual setup ) 1. Start Windows NT and insert the Installation CD disk into the CD-ROM drive. 2. Click on mouse right button on the desktop and select Properties from the popup menu, or double-click Display icon from the Control Panel folder. 3. Select Setting->Didsplay Type. 4. 5. 6. 7. Select Change button.
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                      
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                       
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                     
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                                        
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            
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                                   
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                                 
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                                             
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               
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                        
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         
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                                       
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                                               
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                                
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                                                  
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                        
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                                               
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                                  
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                                    
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                                       
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                            
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                   
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                                           
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             
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                                                   
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                     
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                                         
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             
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                   
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                       
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             
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                        
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         
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                     
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         
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                       
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         
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                   
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                             
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                                               
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                         
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                      
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                                 
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                     
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                   
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                      
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                                 
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                  
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                                 
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                  
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                  
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                     
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                  
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                  
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                                 
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                  
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                                 
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                        
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                                 
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                  
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                  
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                  
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                     
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                                      
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                                           
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                 
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                                                     
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                 
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                                                     
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                   
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                                                     
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                 
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                                                     
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                        
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                                           
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                    
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                                          
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                     
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                                       
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                     
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                                        
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                     
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                                        
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                               
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                      
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                      
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                                 
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                      
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                        
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                          
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                            
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                           
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                                             
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                                                   
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                       
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                                              
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                         
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                                                       
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                   
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                                             
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                     
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                                         
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                     
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                                             
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                      
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                                          
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                    
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                                            
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                   
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                                            
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                   
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                                          
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                    
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                                            
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                 
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                                         
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                                          
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                         
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                                                  
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                          
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                                          
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                  
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                                                     
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                      
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                                      
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                      
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                    
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                       
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                                    
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                      
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          
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                    
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          
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                   
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            
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                        
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             
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                  
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        
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                    
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           
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               
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                                          
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                                                   
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                    
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                                          
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                               
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             
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                   
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                           
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                   
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             
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                   
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                         
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                      
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                                                
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                    
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                                  
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                    
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                                 
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                       
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                                     
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                         
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                                     
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                            
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                                  
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                          
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                                
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                                
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                                   
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                      
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                                        
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                 
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                                 
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                       
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                                              
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                       
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                                 
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                     
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                                   
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                  
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                                                    
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                     
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                                         
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                               
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                                       
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                                          
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                                
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                                       
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                   
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                                         
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                      
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                                                       
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                                       
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                       
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                                            
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                     
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                                      
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                                     
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                                                       
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                                
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                                   
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                          
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                                             
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                       
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                                  
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                      
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                                                 
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                                             
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                         
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                       
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                       
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                      
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                   
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                                                 
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                          
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                      
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                                
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                     
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                               
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                          
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                               
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                         
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                                 
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                                  
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                      
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                            
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                                      