Mediator 4000Di Help Please

[Acill]

I am attempting to get a new install working for a friend with a Mediator and an A4000D. Its got an A3640 in it, buster 11 and has no issues with caps or other problems prior to installing the Mediator.

The mediator drivers install fine and all PCI cards are showing up with PCIinfo command. When installing P96 from the OS3.9 CD is completed I have followed the instructions to rename the cybervision3D drive to Radeon and change the board name in the icon info as well. (I also did this using my Voodoo 5500 in case his Radeon was the issue)

The problem comes up at this point. When the Radeon.device (or voodoo) is put into devs/monitors and the system reboots it hangs 90% of the time and wont boot. When it does boot and the board shows up in picassomode to start setting it up it will guru shortly after before getting things moving. We did manage to get a screen to show up in test before a guru so I know the boards are working. Not putting it in Devs and double clicking to start the device has the same result. So its pointing to something the driver is causing problems on the A4000D for sure.

So we decided to try a perfectly clean OS3.9 install and only the mediator drivers. Exact same results, the monitor driver hangs or causes a guru.

Any ideas? I can get more info from him if required, but I dont know what else to include. Clean system and same results points to an obvious thing I must be missing here. I do the same on my A4000T and its not a problem at all. Mediator setups are not new to me, but its a first on a A4000D.

[Acill]

Everything has been checked, but no luck. I told him to order a cap kit and I will replace them all and see. The 3640 is a Rev3.0 too, maybe I can get some GALs and update it too.

[Acill]

acill
thank you for starting the thread and for all the help. No luck at all with this setup such a shame. We tried a voodoo 5 pci too same results. Always a 800 0004 Guru error. Any help is appreciated i can post the media config log here if it helps
Also looking for the open pci radeon driver so i can test that and help narrow the problem.

From what I read, the openpci version is just the elbox version hacked into a new driver. Same code mostly. As a result, like the Spider USB card they complained and its been pulled down from everywhere.

[Acill]

I also had this problem with my Mediator 4000Di. Did you already downloaded the MMCD 2.5 update from Elbox?

This latest update solved the problem Guru problem with my ATI Radeon 9250.

Getting the Mediator running is sometimes very frustating.

Yes, we have the mmcd 2.5 update, its been a rough time for sure. I didnt have anything like this happen on my A4000T

[Acill]

Try out the pci.library from this archive!
It is the latest Beta V10.x

What settings where done by Medconfig? try to disable the usage of Radeon-Memory as FastRam!

Not the same as what on the last update (MM2.5?) they sent out?

[Acill]

Rotzloeffel

Thanks for the drivers I installed them and they actually seem to make my window operations faster (things had slowed down a little on my 4000 since installing mediator and software) However, I have the same 800 0004 crashes making things unusable

this goes for plain os 3.9 stock install and my os 3.9 bb4 install. I will do a media config report and post it here if you guys would look at it.

also tried with No Radeon mem setting and it still crashes.

Used the beta pci.library and it does make my windows faster. Tested with and without it on my backup partition and normal to confirm.

[Acill]

Did you ever resolve this? I am seeing almost exactly the same problem with my Mediator 4000Di / Voodoo3 setup - clicking the voodoo monitor driver or picasso96prefs will crash the machine on 90% of occasions.

Using OS3.9 and BB2.

I've tried disabling the usual suspects (fblit, Ftext, mcp, icon.library etc) but still get the lockups.

We never resolved it, got a new 4000 board and it ended up having issues as well. Now about to try on yet another board. I think its safe to say these new 4000Di boards are not as good as other versions.

I have the 4000T version in my machine and have ZERO issues with it.

[Acill]

I've now come accross the 3rd A4000 with a Di in it with the same issue. The board works fine at a cold power up from the machine off but the moment you do a warm reset it will not see the Di at all. All three machines did this and the only fix was to turn off the 4000 and turn it back on to restart.

Never got a reply from Elbox about this. The first two people sold the Mediator, the 3rd is in the UK and he is just dealing with it now since it all works perfectly as long as he doesnt warm boot it.