Have PPC in A1200. Now add Mediator or G-Rex ??

[PulsatingQuasar]

Don't buy the G-Rex! I have one and allthough it works, the support is crap. But what is new from DCE and the other people who made the product.

OpenPCI? Bull. Only with the newest flash and if your BlizzardPPC revision is not 2( which most aren't) you have to send the BlizzardPPC to DCE to update the basic ROM to rev 2. Otherwise, stick a Voodoo3 in and lo and behold, it won't boot.
So, you have to flash back and you also can't use the newest Cybergraphx 4.3 and have to stick to the 4.2 beta 11 version. Or send it to DCE and possibly never see it back.

Your only chance is asking the French company that also repairs BlizzardPPC and CyberstormPPC if they can flash to rev 2.

So, does this suck? YES, it sucks. :-x  (But what else is new. The tradition of crap support has been handed down from Phase 5 to DCE).

[PulsatingQuasar]

How come ?? If you add a Voodoo and a SB128 and a supported network card, then what is the problem for a G-Rex ??

If you use the newest flash which supports OpenPCI, there is a timing problem with rev 0 BlizzardPPC which causes the system not to boot anymore. You can't use the newest drivers then.

[PulsatingQuasar]

@KennyR

OpenPCI isn't available to most GRex owners either with that screwup they call rev 0 and rev 2 BlizzardPPC. They should have fixed this with another flashROM and not with the pathetic way they are doing it now.

Sure you could send your BlizzardPPC to DCE to get it updated but chances are you will never get it back.

If anyone from Hyperion is reading this; if you wish to use OpenPCI for OS 4 to support the GRex, then think again! The user base is too small because of this rev 0 / rev 2 crap.