WTB: AmigaOne XE-compatible Radeon 9xxx

[Matt_H]

Greetings all,

I'm trying to upgrade from a 64MB Radeon 7000 to something slightly newer. I've now tried 4 different Radeon 9xxx graphics cards in my AmigaOne XE, all of which *should* have worked, but none of which actually do. 3 were AGP, 1 was PCI, all of the cards themselves are fine. It's just the stupid XE that doesn't want to play nice (hangs before UBoot comes up).

So I'm hoping someone might have a spare that they have actually used successfully in their XE in the past. Please, no links to more cards that "should" work (I've wasted enough money on those) unless you bought one yourself and can confirm that it works.

AGP and 256MB preferred, but PCI 66MHz (the slot immediately adjacent to the AGP slot) and/or 128MB also considered.

Would like to do a US transaction, if possible, via Paypal. I also have several Radeons available to trade (9250, 9200) if for some reason you want a different one

[Matt_H]

@ AmiBoy

I appreciate the offer, but I'd like to try to find a working card directly. Iggy's note about the 9100 has me a little worried, too. Maybe if things don't work out with the direct approach I'll get back to you

@ RobertB

The A1 is supposed to be compatible with PC graphics cards - there's a firmware-level x86 emulator for just that purpose - so I don't think re-flashing is the answer.

[Matt_H]

Thread necromancy!

Finally solved this problem - turns out the damn SCSI card (!) I had in the machine was causing some sort of conflict. I could swear that I had removed all cards when I was testing previously, but apparently not. Popped in a different SCSI card and all is well! (Mostly - UBoot can't detect the new SCSI card because it has a different PCI product ID, but there's an override env variable so the card works fine once OS4 is booted.)

For the record, troublesome SCSI card had an LS53C875J chip, the new one has an LS53C810. Not sure if that was the cause or if it was some other nuance in the card design, but maybe this info will be helpful for someone else.

Anyway, now I've got a whole array of  graphics cards to choose from! What's best? 128mb AGP Radeon 9000, 128mb AGP Radeon 9200SE, or 256mb PCI Radeon 9250 (OS4 seems to only detect 128mb)?

[Matt_H]

@ Acill

Thanks. And since the SE boards seem to have only a 64-bit bus, it looks like the 9000 is the winner!