Elbox Mediator 4000Di

[ChaosLord]

I had the A1200 version with 4 PCI slots and found out lots of Workbench apps where running jerky in Mediator screenmodes, jerkier than in AGA. Someone told me it was because of the way Mediator worked with the Amiga, still to this day I am amused more people do not notice it or complain. People just setup a nice WB and look at it?!

I am curious if A4000 version has the same problem, but not willing to pay 300 euro to find out, oh and I sold my 4 slot PCI Mediator and went back to Zorro cards instead.

If you have jerkieness then something is set wrong in your p96 or cgx or mediator settings.  I had the same thing happen to me.  Once I found the secret setting I changed it and never looked back.

[ChaosLord]

I have pretty much the same setup as Darrin, without the FastATA4000, Deneb, Spider and SB128....Okay, not really the same... but I use the monitor/indivision  the same way.

The problems I have run into were with lockups in Radeon resolutions.  Higher resolution, the quicker it locks up.  I think my problem is one of the programs I am running.  Once I disabled AmiDock and the memory info program, it locks up less..  Still haven't figured that one out, but it may be a bug in ClassicWB.

Otherwise the video modes are really fast, and if it weren't for the stock 040 and the slow IDE drive, it would feel snappier than Windows 7 does on my system with 8 cores and 8 GB of memory!

slaapliedje

When I first bought my Amiga+Mediator setup (used) I had the same lockups as u.

It all turned out that there was a jumper on the mediator for safe or dangerous.  Well dangerous always crashes.  Safe never crashes.  STUPID JUMPER!

Once I changed the jumper over to safe.  Everything was fine.  And my transfer speeds dropped from 11MB/sec to 9MB/sec  No prob since it made my Amiga rock solid for many years.