A4000 Mediator, S3 Vrige, Voodoo and Buddha

[trekster]

Hi all, first time posting on here and not long become a member. Been a silent user for sometime tho.

I recently decided to get back into Amigas after a good few yrs away from them. Used to have an Amiga 1200 kitted out many yrs ago but due to my job I was forced to switch to Macs full-time.

Anyways, bought an Amiga 4000 not long ago and thought I'd tower it in this clear pc case I had. Its come out pretty nice so thought I'd get some upgrades for it, turn it into a more usable system (usable in this day and age anyways )

So I bought a Mediator and a few other bits. Already had a Voodoo 5500 from my Amiga 1200 with other cards and set out to get the system sorted to become an everyday box like my old 1200. Well the problems started straight away.

I can not get any graphics to work, they are all setup correctly, found by the Mediator etc. But when I start them under workbench I get a screen thats just grey under the S3 and the amiga freezes. The Voodoo just gives my lots of nice pretty colours filling the whole of the screen and again the amiga crashes.

Any one got any ideas on what it could be? Sure theres tons like but something might spark and sort it.

Also, anyone got a Buddha Flash Phoenix edition working with their A4000 and a Mediator board? I just get "No Board Found" all the time.

Cheers, Mike.

[trekster]

Cheers for replies.

@ Kin-Hell

Yeah I've set the jumper to the 512M for the Voodoo, and I do have a NIC for the system.

With the S3 I meant I've tried that too, not at the same time as the Voodoo just to see if I could get that working. Of course changed the jumper settings on the Mediator for it.

I've tried all different combo's and positions for the gfx and other cards and still no joy.

@ CLS2086

All seems fine and plugged in correctly.

I've used a clean harddisk for the install at the start as I was hoping to make use of a bigger one but like I says, can't get the buddha to work at all.

Reckon the Mediator could be bust?

Cheers, Mike.

[trekster]

Cheers for reply....

I'll have a shot at stripping it down over the weekend.

Hopefully all will be sorted.

Never had this much trouble with my Amiga 1200

[trekster]

Reet, finally got some spare time to have a shot at sorting my amiga out and still no joy.

I've got the voodoo all setup, but when you select it in the ScreenModes, it just shows a grey screen with black vertical lines and hangs the amiga.

Any ideas any one?

[trekster]

Well finally I've gotten somewhere!

I removed the harddisk that was in there and put it in my amiga 1200 so done another clean install on the amiga 4000.

The voodoo started working, although the screen was all messed up, I could see something that looked like a cursor moving. So I replaced the voodoo with my S3 virge, and bob's your aunty, its working

It mustn't like the voodoo dunno why as it works fine.

Cheers for all the help and keep up the good work helping others,

Mike.