Amiga Tower display problems

[motorollin]

When you boot the Amiga it will try to initialise the 3Dfx card in the Mediator. If it is not there, then it will not use it, and the Amiga's display will be used. That's what is happening now. When you connect the 3Dfx card to the Mediator it displays through that. From the sounds of it, you have selected a screemode that either your 3Dfx card or your TFT screen are unable to display. Follow Amigakit's instructions in the second post of this thread to reset your display settings back to their defaults. Then boot up with the 3Dfx card connected and select the resolution you were using before when it worked.

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moto

[motorollin]

Sounds like the Voodoo install is screwed - there should be loads of screenmodes. Have a look at the Mediator install guide on the CD. It will tell you how to install it properly. Once this is done all the screenmodes should be available in ScreenMode prefs.

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moto

[motorollin]

You can't download them unfortunately. You have to get them from Elbox. They come on a yellow cd with "MMCD" in red writing on it. The person you bought the Amiga from might have it.

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moto

[motorollin]

MMCD stands for MultiMedia CD and it comes with the Mediator.

You've got a Voodoo screenmode in P96Prefs which is good, so you may not need the CD after all. If you click the button to test the screenmode, can you see the testcard on the monitor connected to the Voodoo?

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moto

[motorollin]

Don't apologise, we're all here to help each other  :-)

Sounds like the screenmode you have selected uses a frequency or a resolution which is out of your monitor's range. Try to find out the specs of your monitor. This will be in the manual if you have it, or maybe on a sticker on the back of the monitor. Then make sure the resolution and frequency of the screenmode in P96Mode are within the limitations of your monitor.

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moto

[motorollin]

On a PC keyboard, the Windows keys map to the Amiga keys.

Reinstalling the OS would probably have been easier initially, but at this stage you might as well carry on as you're nearly there.

I had problems getting the board to show in P96Mode now. Can't quite remember how I fixed it now though. First step is to check the card is being detected.

In the shell type in pciinfo, and a list of all the detected cards will be returned. One of them should have Voodoo in the DeviceName. Does that show up?

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moto

[motorollin]

I've got the MMCD. Where are you located Colin?

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moto

[motorollin]

Sounds like uninstalling P96 has removed the voodoo drivers. You will need the MMCD to reinstall it. The CD also has all the instructions on correctly configuring the Mediator, Voodoo and P96.

The output from pciinfo means that the card is physically being seen on the PCI bus, which is a Good Thing :-)

PM me your address and I can send you the MMCD.

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moto

[motorollin]

I said it first  :-P

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moto

[motorollin]

I understand, you love Boot_WB more than me  :boohoo:

:lol:

At least you can use the Amiga on your telly until you get the Mediator working. What software has it got installed on it?

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moto

[motorollin]

Just wait til you start loading up those old games again. You're gonna have soooo much fun :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

Oh, *that's* why your wrists ached  :roflmao:

I think you can get Rise Of The Robots on CD now to save all that swapping. Or if you've got the disks, you could install it to your hard drive. I wonder what Amiga game had the most amount of disks!

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moto