Voodoo3 card install problem help needed!

[Daniele]

@doctorq

of course I installed the Mediator files after installing OS 3.9 and before installing Piacsso96.

But I continue to have Attach Setting to NO BOARD!!!!

Please help me

I already have formatted 3 times and this would be the 4th I format!!!

 :getmad:

What Elbox want to mean when it says on the docs

Copy the "ENCLOSED" voodoo.card into Libs/Picasso96

??

 :-?  :madashell:  :-?

[doctorq]

What files do you have in libs:Picasso96 now?

[Daniele]

I have formatted and installed everything for the 5th time

and I always have in Picasso96Mode Attach setting
to NO BOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am desasperated please help me!

in Libs:Picasso96 I have:

CVision3d.card
emulation.library
fastlayers.library
rtg.library
svirge.chip
voodoo.card

I still do not understand what the Elbox documentation want to mean saying:

Copy the "ENCLOSED" Voodoo.card driver to the

Libs:Picasso96 drawer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



 :-?  :-?  :-?  :-?  :madashell:  :madashell:

[wurzel]

Ok, calm down  :-D

No board means exactly that - the system cannot see the board. This is 99% of the time a loose fitting voodoo card in the Mediator. Make sure the card fits snugly in the Mediator. if not, raise the Mediator by using washers. 1mm should do the trick.

Once you checked it physicaly, just do what you did before and the board should be found.

[rkauer]

 And just one tip: if the Voodoo card have the firmware modified to run on Macs, it won't work on Amigas!

 Do a simple test: put the board on a peecee (XP version is better for this) and hook a monitor on it. It work ok? If so, you have just a contact problem, like Wurzel said.

 If winblows recognize the board, but complain it can can't use the card, you need to re-flash it. Keep it on the peecee and wait further instructions.

[Daniele]

@wurzel!

I pressed the voodoo card in the Mediator but I always have No Board!!! I don't understand why it doesn't regognize be Voodoo card while by pciinfo it is showed!!

please help me!

@rkauer

last week I installed the Voodoo and have been recognized but I had to format the Amiga again because I had a guru after booting because I installed some games on it!

[Daniele]

 :-D
All works now and the Voodoo Card has been recognized by my Amiga.

The point is that step 3) of Elbox Voodoo and Picasso96 Installation document needs to be skipped!!!

Please install the Picasso96 graphic system following its
documentation. Choose Cybervison 64 3D as the graphic card.

After the Picasso96 installation, please start Picasso96 installation
once again and choose the "Update an installed version". Select only
"Monitorsettings" and choose the frequency supported by your monitor.

After successful installation you need to:

1. Find the CVision3D and CVision3D.info in the DEVS:Monitors
   drawer, rename these files to Voodoo and Voodoo.info, respectively.

2. Change in the tool type window of Voodoo.icon:
   BOARDTYPE = from CVision3D to Voodoo.

3. Copy the enclosed Voodoo.card driver to the Libs:Picasso96 drawer. :rtfm:

4. Click to the Voodoo icon (in Devs:Monitors drawer).

5. Start the Picasso96Mode program (in SYS:Prefs drawer) and select
   Attach setting to Board0: Voodoo.
   Exit Picasso96Mode by SAVE.
 

[Kin-Hell]

I read your plight earlier & wanted to help. I use to have a link to a Polish site that read in English on just how to do this. This was the link that had explicit instruction on how to set your mediator up everytime without issues. I was hoping it was just down briefly, but it appears to have died for good!  :-(

http://ext.neostrada.pl/index.shtml.htm

Needless to say, I have a hard copy here & it`s taken me a while to find the darn thing. It was sent to me some years ago by a Guy from Austalia; Henry if I recall correctly. :-)
Perhaps I should get my finger out & type this documentation up to re-host it somewhere! Meantime, I include settings for your Voodoo card. Go to DEVS:Monitors & Right Click your renamed CVision3D (voodoo) icon & select Information from the WB Menu.
On the Tool Types TAB, make sure the Window has the following:

SettingsFile=SYS:Devs/Picasso96Settings
BoardType=Voodoo
BorderBlank=YES
DisplayChain=YES
FakeNativeModes=NO
FontsFix=NO
GrantDirectAccess=NO
IgnoreMask=YES
MemoryClock=188
NoBlitter=NO
NoPlanar2ChunkyBlits=NO
OverClock=YES
BigSprite=NO
Quiet
SoftSprite=NO
System2ScreenBlits=YES
BigSprite=NO

Anything other than above could be removed without issues. There may also be other tooltypes that can run in conjunction with the above.

RE Overclocking

The Voodoo driver from Version 2 onwards allows you to overclock your Voodoo card. The ToolType for this is the "MemoryClock" option. If you comment this out thus, (MemoryClock) the Voodoo driver will automatically select the speed which is correct for your card. Heres the Science:

Voodoo Banshee  -  125Mhz Initially
Voodoo3 2000    -  125Mhz Initially
Voodoo3 3000    -  166Mhz
Voodoo3 3500    -  183Mhz
Voodoo3 3500SE  -  200Mhz
Voodoo4 4500    -  166Mhz
Voodoo5 5500    -  166mhz

Be sure you have adequate ventilation when overclocking. Unless you`re running FPS games on your miggy, there should be no real need to Overclock the Voodoo. ;-)

Well done getting there, it can be quite a frustrating thing to setup corectly. Should be fantastic now it is tho!

All the Best,

Kin  :-)  

[Kin-Hell]

Just found this link which is working but not upto date:

Mediator Guide

Worth a bookmark at the worst.  ;-)

[adonay]

RE Overclocking

Can the amiga even use all the voodoo 3 potential ? Yet alone would you gain anything by overclocking it ?  Or would this perhaps affect all of the mediator DMA

As for installing the voodoo i never had any problems i always felt the elbox readme was very good .

[Kin-Hell]

adonay wrote:

RE Overclocking

Can the amiga even use all the voodoo 3 potential ? Yet alone would you gain anything by overclocking it ?  Or would this perhaps affect all of the mediator DMA

As for installing the voodoo i never had any problems i always felt the elbox readme was very good .

Yeah, but ur gunno need Warp running thro the Voodoo from a PPC card!  ;-)
...and Yes to the Overclocking. 20Mhz more can add another 5 - 7 fps depending on which Voodoo card ur using!

[DIBBEERZ]

can you clarify the fix a bit more im havin simlar problems

[don27dog]

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