Probs with Mediator. Anyone experienced the same?

[Jono]

I had a similar problem in the past whereby I ended up having to reseat all my boards.  I have not had the same problem since, but am instead getting random lock-ups of the Amiga.

This seems is something that started to occur when I bought an Apollo 68060 for my A1200, but since I have bought the Mediator + 32Mb of RAM the problem has gotten worse, especially when surfing the web.

I have since rebuilt my A1200 twice this year.  If anyone has any other ideas I am open to options.

The last suggestion I received from the newsgroups was to remove everything and plug in the expansions one-by-one which I want to avoid if poss.

Regds
Jono

[Jono]

JurassicCamper wrote:

Jono wrote:
I had a similar problem in the past whereby I ended up having to reseat all my boards.  I have not had the same problem since, but am instead getting random lock-ups of the Amiga.

This seems is something that started to occur when I bought an Apollo 68060 for my A1200, but since I have bought the Mediator + 32Mb of RAM the problem has gotten worse, especially when surfing the web.

I had this problem. I kept having to reseat my Network Card / Accelerator.
In the end I changed the network card for a matching one, that seemed to fix it for a while. Then it started happening again. I ended up putting in a new mobo about 12months ago and its been fine since.

Which network card did you get?
I bought mine from Power (cannot remember the brand) but it is the 10/100Mbs version.  It all works well, but again the lock-ups just annoy  :-(

Was your MB one of the modded versions, mine isn't and this was something I was considering replacing.  Especially as it is about 10 years old now.

Rgds
Jono

[Jono]

lempkee wrote:
patrik: i dont have any of theese problems and i have owned a mediator for 2 years now.

but i can say that once i got my usb2.0 card (spider) then i had to reseat all cards to get a boot at all.

anyway its a hack so i suggest all users to check their cards every now and then to see if they are connected properly at all times , heat makes them move and heat is the only thing there is enough of in the mediator amiga's.

also remeber to firmly attach the cpu slot hack (a1200) , this one is infact the one making most problems for people.

 

I will check all the cards are reseated again!! and will then try adding another fan.  

I did add one fan just beneath the Voodoo card to extracts the hot air from the heat-sink as I found it was giving trashing graphics every now and then.  Since putting this fan in, the graphic trashing has gone.

So I will get another bigger fan and install this to circulate some more air around the Mediator/MB and see how that goes.

Rgds
Jono