If you’re new to these posts please see part 1-4 at the below links, if not – read on =D
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Well I hope I didn’t keep you in suspense too long?
As you may remember my journey continues with the arrival of these awesome upgrades for my Amiga 1200 Tower project:
Straight away I was much more excited by these items than the Micronik Zorro board that I had such epic fail with. The Elbox Mediator looked in a whole other league!
I robbed these parts out of an Elbox Tower I found on ebay, I was even lucky enough to have it delivered to my door by the seller whose Mum lived around the corner from me – how spooky is that!
The seller didn’t know much about it as it belonged to a friend who emigrated so it was always going to be a bit of a gamble, however being the risk taker I am, I went ahead!
Also amoungst these goodies was a Blizzard 1230MkIV:
Cracking little card which would find its way to my Desktop A1200, but for now that’s another story! The job at hand was to get all the all the Mediator goodies installed in my A1200 Tower.
Here’s a closer look at the Mediator and FastATA MkIII:
I was really impressed at how the modern upgrades integrated with the A1200 and I was very lucky because (and this was not noted in the listing) all the original boxes, manuals and drivers were also included.
Firstly I thought since the items were unknown working order I’d better test them outside the case so I setup my work bench (dining table) and started to put the jigsaw puzzle together.
Motherboard and FastATA checked out as working fine, setup CWB ADV SP and added the FastATA drivers. My IDE CDRW was working fine also.
Next step was to install the Mediator its self. Although a tight fit everything does go together fine!
Now to test it all out =D
Damn, something was wrong, just when I thought everything was going well – This was the only display I was getting out of the Voodoo 5:
As you can see the second pic is the test screen something was very wrong here!
Back to the forums it was for advice. As I was using Classic Workbench I was asked to disable some of the options like Copper & FBlit but this did not help.
I thought it was all happening again, was I doomed to be without an RTG setup?
After some strip downs and rebuilds and at the advice of my buddy CosmicFrog I started to setup a simple Workbench from scratch as he was sure something in CWB was causing this, and maybe the reason I couldn’t get the CV64/3D to work! But no time to dwell on that now, I had a lot of work to do.
I decided to install WB3.1 and then the FastATA drivers and on top of that OS3.9, this all seemed to go well:
Before long I was back at the trusty Mediator setup screens:
Bingo – we have RTG!
And there it was! My very first RTG setup =D
So it was time to get this badboy all back inside the Tower! I whipped out the old Motherboard and started installing the new setup.
This time as you can see the case is made to measure, all the PCI slots match up just fine, no adjustment needed!
And everything installed, ready to rock and roll!
In the end I replaced the standard OS3.9 with Classic Workbench P96, unlike the ADV SP and although it was made with WinUAE as the target it of course did not have any issues with Picasso96 and therefore as with my basic OS3.9 setup was quite straight forward to get up and running.
There she was, all finished! Well at least for now!!!
Click here for Part 6
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Well I hope I didn’t keep you in suspense too long?
As you may remember my journey continues with the arrival of these awesome upgrades for my Amiga 1200 Tower project:
Straight away I was much more excited by these items than the Micronik Zorro board that I had such epic fail with. The Elbox Mediator looked in a whole other league!
I robbed these parts out of an Elbox Tower I found on ebay, I was even lucky enough to have it delivered to my door by the seller whose Mum lived around the corner from me – how spooky is that!
The seller didn’t know much about it as it belonged to a friend who emigrated so it was always going to be a bit of a gamble, however being the risk taker I am, I went ahead!
Also amoungst these goodies was a Blizzard 1230MkIV:
Cracking little card which would find its way to my Desktop A1200, but for now that’s another story! The job at hand was to get all the all the Mediator goodies installed in my A1200 Tower.
Here’s a closer look at the Mediator and FastATA MkIII:
I was really impressed at how the modern upgrades integrated with the A1200 and I was very lucky because (and this was not noted in the listing) all the original boxes, manuals and drivers were also included.
Firstly I thought since the items were unknown working order I’d better test them outside the case so I setup my work bench (dining table) and started to put the jigsaw puzzle together.
Motherboard and FastATA checked out as working fine, setup CWB ADV SP and added the FastATA drivers. My IDE CDRW was working fine also.
Next step was to install the Mediator its self. Although a tight fit everything does go together fine!
Now to test it all out =D
Damn, something was wrong, just when I thought everything was going well – This was the only display I was getting out of the Voodoo 5:
As you can see the second pic is the test screen something was very wrong here!
Back to the forums it was for advice. As I was using Classic Workbench I was asked to disable some of the options like Copper & FBlit but this did not help.
I thought it was all happening again, was I doomed to be without an RTG setup?
After some strip downs and rebuilds and at the advice of my buddy CosmicFrog I started to setup a simple Workbench from scratch as he was sure something in CWB was causing this, and maybe the reason I couldn’t get the CV64/3D to work! But no time to dwell on that now, I had a lot of work to do.
I decided to install WB3.1 and then the FastATA drivers and on top of that OS3.9, this all seemed to go well:
Before long I was back at the trusty Mediator setup screens:
Bingo – we have RTG!
And there it was! My very first RTG setup =D
So it was time to get this badboy all back inside the Tower! I whipped out the old Motherboard and started installing the new setup.
This time as you can see the case is made to measure, all the PCI slots match up just fine, no adjustment needed!
And everything installed, ready to rock and roll!
In the end I replaced the standard OS3.9 with Classic Workbench P96, unlike the ADV SP and although it was made with WinUAE as the target it of course did not have any issues with Picasso96 and therefore as with my basic OS3.9 setup was quite straight forward to get up and running.
There she was, all finished! Well at least for now!!!
Click here for Part 6
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