Amiga 3000 problems - please help!

[Ellis]

What about fast mem? How much?

How did you get this machine?Did someone give it to you broken or sold it to you? Do they have any ideas on the problem and did they remove the zip chips(fast mem). Zip chips are somewhat in demand and could have been sold!

You say in your post 9 out of 10 times it guru's; well does it boot on that one time?

What is the whole guru error number?

Are you blessed with some Amiga knowledge? HAHA I meant have you owned a Amiga?

I think you could have something in that Amiga 3000 and could be worth fixin. Anything short of a bad soldered chip could be quite easy to correct. If you have a problem like I described above might be cheaper to buy a new mother board. Software hut is where I sent mine years ago and they did a awesome job on my mother board problem but I belive the much blessed Amiga Tech guy has gone and left software hut. I'm not sure if they even service Amiga anymore but you might want to give them a call.

 

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[Ellis]

Since, the simm/zip board is broken I take it you have no fast mem?

If you don't have memory the computer can't work correctly! Put some fast mem in ;zips,dips or simms. Leave the chip mem as is. I would also get some other roms  and give them a try. Since, you have some Amiga knowledge and maybe the ability to get another A3000. You could swap some parts ram and roms to see if it works.Maybe, a friend could loan you a computer!         :-o

[Ellis]

I don't belive it will but you could move a meg back to the fast mem (dips) and see if that works. 1 meg chip and 1 meg fast might work.

I belive this is the way it is shipped and when you start adding zip memory in the fast mem banks the dips are moved to the chip mem area! Zips and dips do not work together in the fast mem banks ;its one or the other.You get a lot more memory in the zip banks I belive 12mb can be added to fast mem. I belive you can have up to 4mb in the dip banks.NOT BOTH!

Chip memory is for graphics and 2mb is the max. If you could get a hold of some memory I think you might be OK.

The OS you are using is 3.9 or 3.1 may need more memory?I would give it a go and move some memory around and see if you could get a good stable boot.      :-?

[Ellis]

I did some research and you can put up to 16mb of fast mem on it. I would bet you will need at least 4mb of fast ram for 3.1 WB.

I hate to see you buy another if nothing is wrong with the one you have! No memory or low memory sounds like the problem.

Well, if you get another you can possible fix it and have a back up,also.

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