Old-timer looking for A1200 hardware help

[Boing-ball]

Hi,

Welcome back to Amiga ownership.

So let’s answer these questions for you:

- Mixer not working = No PCI Soundcard being seen. Check that the soundcard has been fitted to the mediator. This is either s Soundblaster CT or FM card.

List of supported Mediator PCI cards and software here:

https://elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html

Remember, that to check your PCI cards, then open up a Shell CLI and type the command pciinfo

This will list up all of the PCI cards the libs pci.library and s vendors.list can see.

As for the FastATA. Then yes it can depend on the version and driver used. If this is one of the oldest and first made FastATA then you will need to try the MK1 driver. Any other drivers for mk3 to Mk VI will not work. But again it could be the card has failed to be seen or needs a removal and reconnect maybe due to getting loose or maybe dirt build up.

FastATA drivers are found here:

https://elbox.com/downloads_fastata.html

Nothing wrong in using P96 V2.0 for the RTG side with the Voodoo 3.

[Boing-ball]

Okay. So if no longer booting, then it indicates driver or hardware issues.
The devs monitors will have a voodoo monitor tool type which P96 relies on for display.
Either the P96 is messed up or the card has become disjointed from the PCI connector enough to fully function.
Have had this many a time with the newer 1200 Mediator boards.

Can you provide an output of your pciinfo on here?

The cards should show the name of the card and not the term “Unknown”.

You do still have the vendors list in S draw? As pciinfo and pci.library require this to understand the cards attached.

What does P96mode in Prefs show? Ie. When you try and attach a RTG card, does the Voodoo show up?

Other issues maybe around the PSU not providing enough voltage to the Mediator at 5v per PCI slot.

[Boing-ball]

Okay to answer this in order:

Lastest MM CD UP is 2.6 but there are later drivers missing from that update. Check here:

https://elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html

Such as Voodoo.driver 4.36 as well as pci.library ver 3.14 for 68060 utilisation and V 3.15 for 68040 (possibly 68060 as well).

In S you should have something called Vendors.txt this has a list of all known PCI card vendors.

Just to check, when you installed the latest MMCDUP you did run Medconfig in prefs to setup the card preferences?

[Boing-ball]

I have had this issue a couple of times in the A1200 Mediator setup. This is normally down to the Voodoo card not getting a good connection. This card is used by the mediator for DMA and for other PCI cards to function.

Couple of things to try first:

- Clean the PCI slots and Voodoo card edge connector with contact cleaner or Deoxit to make sure of proper connection.

- Has the Amiga Mainboard been recapped?

- Try reseating the Mediator board onto the adapter as well as clean those connectors with contact cleaner or deoxit.

- Try another PSU just incase

Good luck.

[Boing-ball]

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