Blizzard PPC Crisis

[lempkee]

frankB: when my ide died i booted a backed up os3.9 cd of my system right of my scsi on the bppc , but i had to overide all savings to Ram:

but it worked and its one of the reasons why i am still here .

anyway i know it didnt work well before but the flashrom i use now works on my setup atleast (with boot from cd).



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about the flash rom getting wiped, first time i heard about this was when ryu told me some time ago and seriously i have no ideas what it can be but it makes me considering to have a floppy disk with the flashrom always at hand, not done it so far but hell if it happens then i would panic without one i guess..

[lempkee]

kgrach: hmm a cooling rib on the scsi chip... never heard that one before, so what speeds do u get now then?

i get 8.2 megs per sec with no cooling rib..

though it does jump up and down ..

cheers

[lempkee]

Cu_amiga:

1. No sadly not, but most are!

2. if you are going for mediator, go for P8/P9 solution psu and not ATX , if you go for mediator SX then go for ATX psu (SX have AT and ATX , Mediator (normal) has only AT.

3. Any pc store, just a normal one, 200 watt and up!

4. sorry dont got a powertower so i dont know, but i cant think of anything really, but i am sure powertower use AT styled psu, or?

goodluck!

[lempkee]

kgratch:

thanks for this info, i have supervised my chip and i can't say its hot nor cold, something between..

also i might get problems putting a rib on there due to my CASE (tower) design, but i will try work something out

so... you should glue a coin to the chip and then glue a cooler rib to the coin?, ideas are welcome, i dont want to blow it up.

my ppc has allready 3 fans on it , the 1 orginal one (exchanged it with a more powerfull one) and 1 on the 060 and 1 on the ppc cooliing rib.

[lempkee]

ppc:

Voodoo4 has SEVERE! problems with the endian AMIGA use .

U should use Voodoo3 on mediators! to get best support for games and scene stuff

also you are giving tips to an a1200 user here (cu_amiga) and myself is an a1200 mediator + ppc user, did u know that MAX memory on mediator a1200 (Sx also) with ppc only gives u MAX 8mb Gfx memory?

i think u dont ! , so to all Go for Voodoo3 and if u have a ppc , only 8mb will be used so having an voodoo5 or 4 is not gonna change anything.

on 68k a1200's it will work with 16,32 etc.

but with WOS+W3d , NO!

[lempkee]

cu_amiga:

yes ATX will work, but recomend u to use AT instead, read above why.

my tower (RBM TOWERHAWK IIc) came with ATX bla bla , but i had to get an AT psu and remove all the ATX stuff due to my mediator is the first version (pci1200) and has no ATX support.

in general no big changes but its the connectors that counts and since u have an Powertower well go for AT

cheers