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Amiga 500 black screen after kickstart rom upgrade
« on: December 29, 2023, 09:53:03 AM »
Hello,
Like I feared, it looks like my amiga adventure is risking to become a short one.
After the upgrade of kickstart rom to 3.1 it wont start. It just shows a black screen.

I have a revision 5 board, which needed the kickstart rom adapter, and Ive installed it like this:
 

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Re: Amiga 500 black screen after kickstart rom upgrade
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2023, 04:24:14 PM »
Yes it did work with the original rom. Otherwise than that... I dont think there is much of a backstory. You can se how I installed it. I was hoping that maybe I put it in reversed or something
 

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Re: Amiga 500 black screen after kickstart rom upgrade
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2023, 09:12:52 PM »
I solved it!
The keyboard connector was put back reversed. Apparently this makes the screen go black and nothing happens. But now I have the 3.1 version :)