Hi again... I have a Spider II (with registered Poseidon!!) which have caused me quite a headache. Firstly it wouldnt fit easily into the PCI slot, I almost had to use a hammer to get it into place (ok... i´m exagurating a bit here
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My specs are: A1200T/blizzard060/64mbram/mediator1200/Voodoo5500/network/SB128/SpiderII/PowerFlyerII/2x10GB HD´s/OS3.9
And when I got it into place the computer would not work unless I set the Mediator wait jumper to on (Voodoo drivers failed to load properly, thus freezing the screen, worked nicely without the Voodoo drivers installed though). (what exactly does this jumper do BTW?)
And when I installed Poseidon and got it working alright, I noticed how much more unstable my system got. Sure my Amiga system have always been very unstable since I got my blizzard060 and even more so after I got my mediator, but now it´s even more likely to crash than ever.
Elbox thought it might be because of some other drivers or patches that I had installed so I tried to make a clean install, installing only the drivers for the mediator (voodoo, network, sb128) and powerflyer2 and Poseidon. However that didn´t seem to help.
The worst thing however is that after my Amiga crashes (which it always does)I have to it turned off for several minutes before I can boot into workbench again. Otherwise it will stop loading halfway thru the boot-process for no appearant reason (my guess is that it´s the Voodoo driver conflicting again).
Anyone had some similar problems with their Spider2 cards? I got the newer and smaller version (NEC) and not the one they´re displaying on their website.
BTW, I don´t like way elbox have ignored some of my questions about the mediator just because I bought it second hand (ignore as in no reply at all). I bought the spider though and they helped me a bit on the way. But as this matter might regard the mediator itself (voodoo drivers?) I belive that´s why they chose to ignore me...
I think it´s a loosing strategy to just ignore people, perhaps people would consider to buy more stuff from Elbox if they were acting more friendly even to second hand customer? Just my thoughts....
