A4000 w/o daughterboard

[nine3o]

What makes you think the riser card is bad?

Is it not recognizing cards?

Does your machine not power up?

As for plugging in a zorro card directly in the mother board, don't do it as there is no proper bus termination with out the riser card, and you could cause futher damage, even tho it may work.

[nine3o]

_jmp_ wrote:
I've got just 1 Z3 card. It must be something else wrong with my hardware...

OK, we want to help you out here but we need more details on your system to provide some direction.

What is your Zorro II card? (ethernet, serial card, etc..)

What is your Zorro III card? (SCSI card, video card, etc..)

What is the revision of your Buster chip?  9 or 11?

Have you tested the Zorro III card in another system?

What shows up when you hold down both mouse buttons after a soft or hard boot and checking hardware config?