Amiga Tower display problems

[technium]

ok cant do amiga keys as I have a tower with pc keyboard.

did what you said but loads of text flashed up, I guess thats for the different cards in the mediator pci thing.

I cant copy and paste as im typing this on my pc and trying to fix the amiga but if you want me to tyr and type it all up let me know unless you want me to look for something specific and I can tell you?

Also would it be simpler for you guys if I just reinstalled the OS or would that make not make any diffence?

thanks again guys

Colin

[motorollin]

On a PC keyboard, the Windows keys map to the Amiga keys.

Reinstalling the OS would probably have been easier initially, but at this stage you might as well carry on as you're nearly there.

I had problems getting the board to show in P96Mode now. Can't quite remember how I fixed it now though. First step is to check the card is being detected.

In the shell type in pciinfo, and a list of all the detected cards will be returned. One of them should have Voodoo in the DeviceName. Does that show up?

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moto

[Boot_WB]

Hi Colin, I wouldn't reinstall the OS - without the Multimedia CD you won't be able to install the necessary files to get your mediator up and running.

To reset you should be able to use CTRL+ the two windows keys on your PC keyboard.

In the pciinfo you're looking for an entry for 3dfx.

Another thing to try: look in the libs/picasso96 folder.  Is there a file called voodoo.card (or something similar)?  If not, then I fear uninstalling picasso96 has deleted your P96 voodoo driver.

Unfortunately the voodoo.card driver is not downloadable form the elbox website - you do need the Multimedia CD form this point.

On the off chance, the previous owner MAY have left a backup on the hard drive somewhere, you could try FIND (in the WINDOW menu on workbench) and look for voodoo.card and/or MediatorUP and/or MMCD.

Hopefully you will find one of these on the hard drive somewhere.

[motorollin]

I've got the MMCD. Where are you located Colin?

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moto

[technium]

Hi

I have two files in the libs folder called Picasso96APlibary and a folder called picasso96, in the folder is several folders which are

rtg.library
emulation.library
cvision3d.card
s3vage.chip
fastlayers.library

in the work harddisk partion is 2 folders which look like gooduns

they are

Medconfig13 which contains Medconfig and a folder called tvprefs which has loads of files like ATIWonder etc

the other folder of note is called Picasso96install which has the following -

setup install type icon
folders called, documentation, picasso96 and drivers

just found another folder called picasso96 which contains the following-

these are folders
acpro
debug
p96speed
shapeshifter
xipaint
and the following icons
p96_printerpatch.doc
picasso96_english.guide
p96_printerpatch

another folder in work I found was called p96speed which contained the following files

p96speed
p96speedguide
translators.readme

[technium]

Im located in Portland in Dorset mate.

[technium]

in the shell pciinfo pci device 4 is listed as device name voodoo5

is there anything you want me to tell you from this?

[motorollin]

Sounds like uninstalling P96 has removed the voodoo drivers. You will need the MMCD to reinstall it. The CD also has all the instructions on correctly configuring the Mediator, Voodoo and P96.

The output from pciinfo means that the card is physically being seen on the PCI bus, which is a Good Thing :-)

PM me your address and I can send you the MMCD.

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moto

[Boot_WB]

HI, yes it appears the driver file (voodoo.card) has been deleted.  P-mail me your address, I believe I have a spare MMCD from a broken mediator which I can mail to you.  Regards  

[motorollin]

I said it first  :-P

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moto

[technium]

thanks both of you, ive pm'ed  you Boot_WB as you said yours is spare so just makes it easier but truely many thanks Motorollin for the offer, I dont wnat you thinking im ignoring you or anything.

Really I never knew generosity like this existed on forums, sure people give up their time to help but posting stuff aswell!!

thanks again, WE will eventually have this tower running.

[motorollin]

I understand, you love Boot_WB more than me  :boohoo:

:lol:

At least you can use the Amiga on your telly until you get the Mediator working. What software has it got installed on it?

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moto

[technium]

Noooooo, dont say that lol, you make me feel guilty now

I dont think theres much on it, so that will be my next step as my old a1200 used to have great stuff like dopus, quarterback, snoopdos etc but I have got loads of software up in the attic that came with it, 100's of disc sold as blanks so I guess they are dodgy copies and about 100 boxed games and utilities etc but ive been out the scene so long I just wanted to get back in......oh the good old days of playing scorched tanks, or canon fodder, galaga duluxe and sensible soccer etc etc they dont make games like that anymore!!

Anything your after I could check to see if I have it.

[motorollin]

Just wait til you start loading up those old games again. You're gonna have soooo much fun :-)

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moto

[technium]

I remember rise of the robots, damn thing had 13 disks, you ended up with wrist ache from keep changing disks! lol

[motorollin]

Oh, *that's* why your wrists ached  :roflmao:

I think you can get Rise Of The Robots on CD now to save all that swapping. Or if you've got the disks, you could install it to your hard drive. I wonder what Amiga game had the most amount of disks!

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moto