Please - I need help with ATI 9200 PCI Card on SAM440 [SOLVED]

Hello dear Amiga users,

I ran into trouble and I hope someone can give me a hand with this problem:

I have a SAM440 Amiga from Acube Sytems.
Since Christmas I am facing problems with the GFX output from my SAM.
It is definitely a hardware problem - it started with occasional flickers and its getting worse. When I saw this the first time I touched the monitor cable right at the DVI port of the sam and the problem was fixed. But only for a few hours.
So I bought a new DVI cable but that didn't solve it.
In order to make sure that it maybe comes only from the DVI port I connectet a VGA port cable on the SAM mobo and connected the mon with VGA cable.
Unfortuntely the same. I can't really read any longer anything at all now - DVI or VGA!

Okay I bought a 3,3V ATI 9200 PCI GFX card with 128 MB Ram.
I installed it and I copied the dual graphic cadrs setup files from Acube to their appropriate folders (had to do it in a shell - filer is unusable because of the heavy gfx glitches)

I rebootet the Amiga but no Picture at all
I am looking foreward to install the new OS4.1 U1 - but first I need a picture on the screen again

Now my question: has anybody of you installed a PCI GFX card in the PCI slot of the SAM440? What else is necessary to get it to work - Do I have to run U-BOOT prefs first? Can I install the OS4.1 U1 CD at all with the the second gfx card (the internal is now quite unusable)?

Any help would really be appriciated!

Thanx a lot for your time guys.

I hope that the X1000 appears soon on the market !!!

Keep on going with the Amiga spirit!!!

Cheers
Andi

@fastbit66

Just a hunch, have you gone into uboot and changed the video mode? PCI/ONBOARD just like a pc bios does?

Click to help with Uboot

@fastbit66

If i don't remember too wrong you'll have to endter u-boot and set up which gfx card you want to use,either pci or internall one.

@fastbit66

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First install the newest UBOOT from Acube.

UBoot 1.3.1a 27-Nov-2009 updater ISO
http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=1

You need to get your PCI card working in your PCI 66 port.

Then you need to exit to uboot, and select video card onboard or pci, i think.

@LiveForIt

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There is no 66mhz pci on the sam EP. Only 33mhz.

@Antique

Sorry PCI 33

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@LiveForIt, Antique and magic:

Thanx a lot for these hints - I will try it and let you about the result !

See U

Andi

@LiveForIt, Antique and magic:

IT WOKS !!!!

I was such a fool - didn't thought about setting the display in U-Boot to PCI *shame on me*

Now the ATI 9200 works pretty cool and I have just booted the AmigaOS 4.1 U1 CD successfully YEAHH !!

Thank you very very much for your help - now I can use my SAM again and will push him up with the the Hyperio *shame on me*

See you and all the best !!!

Andi