Elbox Mediator 4000Di

[Lozspd4]

Hi I bought A4000DI MKII a few weeks ago from Elbox direct with the Special offer including a Radeon 9200 Pro with 256mb. Works Fantastic.
 
There Is very Little Heat Produced with the Radeon,it doesn,t Support warp 3d at the momment but works well with Earth, Naplam,Myst, etc.:uzi:
 
Ive got A4000/040 original os3.9 with update 4  just leave the Card resoarce entry out in Startup-seuence tends to interfer with Radeon.
 
fitted to mediator i have Radeon 256mb, Spider, fastethernet sb128,and am very pleased with the result so far.:elvis:

[Lozspd4]

Hi Again yes you can only use the 9200 series Cards but they have to be Modded to 5v for the Mediator. the one i got from Elbox was allready modded had 256mb on board but only 128mb could be used as it had 2x 128mb Banks so i modded a new one i got from Hongkong and that uses the full 256mb on mediator.
 
becare of cheap imatation radeons as some dont work.
 
If you Need help in that department i could give you some help on the modding, if your Handy with a soldering iron.
 
Nobby

[Lozspd4]

Hi here is the Radeon Card i brought i can from the UK the seller still has some of These but they have to be modded costs about 50pence for the chip here in Germany.
 
the ebay link is http://www.ebay.de/itm/Neu-256MB-ATI-Radeon-9250-PCI-Grafikkarte-256-MB-/281026884984?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D3764905824906425400%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D280491635769%26
 
Nobby

[Lozspd4]

Hi
this is quiet difficult to explain some Cards are fitted with 2 seperat ram Banks ie 2x 128mb with two seperate addresses and the mediator and 0s4.1 only pick up one of These Banks giving 128mb.its more to do with the gfx Card bios i think.This was done for stability reasons.
 
Some really old Saphire Cards are 5v 3v compatible and work straight out the box no Problem but it like playing russian roulette if it works or not.
 
And the notches on some of the modern Cards doesn,t really apply to the 3v or 5v rule. confusing really.
 
I bought the Card which i linked to and used this link to do the mode http://mfilos.blogspot.de/2012/03/a4000-modding-and-testing-ati-radeon-on.html Please note the Card has to be exactly the same in the Pictures hence the first link i sent you from ebay to garentee it works on the A4000DI,i bought from this guy in ebay modded it and it works perfect in the 4000
showing full 256mb.Ps(my Card had a venlitator fitted but physically the board is the same).Your Basically Making the 3.3v link with the regulator
 
But to confuse things even more it Show graphic trash in my A1200 ppc wich has one of the first A1200 Mediator pci boards fitted wierd.
 
But this Card does work in the A4000 DI MK and 1200TX.
 
Hoped i Helped you out a bit. if you still have your doubts ive still got the original Card from elbox only used a hour to test. or a Voodoo 3000. i could send over to the Homeland. as i live here in Germany since 30 years and my English is a bit Rusty lol.
 
Nobby

[Lozspd4]

Hi
    this is quiet difficult to explain some Cards are fitted with 2 seperat ram Banks ie 2x 128mb with two seperate addresses and the mediator and 0s4.1 only pick up one of These Banks giving 128mb.its more to do with the gfx Card bios i think.
 
Some really old Saphire Cards are 5v 3v compatible and work straight out the box no Problem but it like olaying russian roulette if it works or not.
 
And the notches on some of the modern Cards doesn,t really apply to the 3v or 5v rule. confusing really.
 
I bought the Card which i linked to and used this link to do the mode http://mfilos.blogspot.de/2012/03/a4000-modding-and-testing-ati-radeon-on.html Please not the Card has to be exactly  the same in the Pictures hence the first link i sent you from ebay to garentee it works on the A4000DI,i bought from this guy in ebay modded it and it works perfect in the 4000
showing full 256mb.Ps(my Card had a venlitator fitted but physically the board is the same).
 
But to confuse things even more it Show graphic trash in my A1200ppc with one of the first Mediator pci boards wierd.
 
But this Card does work in the A4000 DI MK and 1200TX.
 
Hoped i Helped you out a bit. if you still have your doubts ive still got the original Card from elbox only used a hour to test. or a Voodoo 3000. i could send over to the Homeland. as i live here in Germany since 30 years and my English is a bit Rusty lol.
 
Nobby

[Lozspd4]

Hi Guys
          That with the lockups with the Radeon is i think got to do with which pci Slot the Ethernet and Radeon are in together i tryed a lot of variations and found that the best combination for my System is.
 
starting at the top working to wards the Mainboard is,
 
10/100 fast Ethernet
Radeon 9200 256mb
Spider Usb
Sb 128
 
this is with all jumpers closed on the mediator 4000di mkII
 
The only program that causes Problems is Genesis. when i press offline the System locksup.but Miami dx works perfect.
 
The other way to get the other bank of 128mb to sort of work is use the program addmem from aminet but youll have Play around with the start and end ram addresses till you get a working set, but i only managed to get 64mb working stable.
 
can you give your Card positions through so that other users can give
it a try and maybe saving hair pulling Frustration. as when some Cards are not fitted they may Need  another Position for the Cards to work stable.
Nobby