Question about A3000 Roms

[Matt_H]

Check your startup-sequence and C: directory for a command called MapROM. It's automatically installed by the system installation under some conditions, but I don't know which ones. It's a tool to provide software remapping of the kickstart with certain hardware.

And the quick check for 1.4 ROMs: Does a dark grey screen with yellow text appear on a cold boot that says "Loading Kickstart 2.x..." and then "Rebooting system"?

[Matt_H]

Okay. You've got the 1.4 Boot ROMs. You can hold down both mouse buttons on bootup and get a little boot menu that allows you to boot into 1.3 as well (if you've got the appropriate ROM image on a partition named WB_1.3:)

My 3000 (which I think is rev 6.2) also has the 1.4 ROMs, but it needs the ROM Tower. Since you're already running without one, you can probably just drop your new ROMs into the same sockets the current ones are occupying. I'd recommend going up to 3.1, though - my thought is that if you're going to be replacing ROMs, you might as well put in the best possible ones available.

[Matt_H]

Damn. Unfortunately, I'm out of ideas. My only other suggestion would be to examine motherboard photos at the BBoAHW or http://amiga.resource.cx and see how they're configured.