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Help reviving an old A3000
« on: March 25, 2003, 03:55:22 PM »
I've got an older A3000 that used to have a CyberStorm MkIII in it.  It got transplanted into my A4000.  It's been a year and a few moves and I'd like to get my A3000 back up and running to test out some hardware I picked up a while ago (VideoToaster, Opalvision, etc.)

The A3000D has 2 megs chip, no fast ram (at the moment), KS3.1 and a 030/25.  I'm salvagine an older hardrive for use with it.

I turn it on, and get nothing.
I turn it on and hold both mouse buttons and get nothing.

I'm beginning to wonder if I forgot to change the jumper settings on the board to revert back to the speed of the on-board processor.  In which case, I'm a bit in a bind since I no longer have the CSMKIII instructions (I've moved since I did the swap).

Can anyone help?

Thanks...
Steph
 

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Re: Help reviving an old A3000
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2003, 04:33:41 PM »
Merci.

Je vais les essayer lorsque je renterais a la maison.  :-D
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Re: Help reviving an old A3000
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2003, 04:59:16 PM »
Quote

Agafaster wrote:
People called Romans they go the house ?


Not quite... :P

"I will try them out once I get home".
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Re: Help reviving an old A3000
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2003, 04:02:00 AM »
It didn't work...

Well, I think I got further.

I'm getting a purple screen.  I'm not sure if it's looking for the floppy drive (it was flaky).  I think I'll try it with it disconnected next time.

Hmm... I can't fit a disk into the drive, perhaps because of this the drive is sending a signal that it has a floppy in and the A3000 is trying to boot from floppy?  Hmm...

Hmm...  The keyboard is at least reacting to a three finger salute. :P
Steph