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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: on January 15, 2004, 02:45:21 PM
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I have a old Amiga 3000, actually it was the first that I got. 25mhz board, and this rev 7 board came with a rom tower.
I am wanting to get this going again, maybe as my main machine. Not sure how much better it would be over my Amiga 3000 16 mhz rev 9 motherboard machine.
Can someone tell me if there is a way I could install 2.0 chips on this (or higher) without having to use the rom tower (which unfortunately now has a broke pin). What setting and jumpers do I need to work on?
Thanks!
Doctor Clu
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I think you need to fix or buy another rom tower. I haven't heard of a way to replace the rom tower, or do away with it.
Maybe you can search aminet for a hack.
Good Luck!
Dave
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Why on Earth did they have the rom tower to begin with? There are four rom slots there, regular ones like the Rev 9 has. What was so different about Rev 7?
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If I'm not mistaken you can just replace the tower with
ordinary roms for later rev a3k's. The early a3k's used
a special solution, loading the kickstart from the hdd.
but like I said, I don't think you need the tower... just a
set of 3.1 roms...
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Interesting! So the 3.1 roms made up for the shortcomings of the earlier roms? That would be interesting. May have to give that a try.
We did read something somewhere that some jumper settings had to be changed. That is one difference between the rev 7 and rev 9 motherboard that I noticed, many more jumper settings.
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....but like I said.. don't trust me...
ask a dealer selling roms....