A2000 ROM jumpers on A3000 MoBo

[da9000]

I have to resurrect this thread, because I fried accidentaly my dead A3000's ROMs and I'm trying to revive it...

So, has anyone ever been able to use a 256KB ROM (from A500/A2000) in an A3000 with the jumpers J180 & J181 set properly?

Thanks

Jeff wrote:
I have never tried it.  However even if the 3000 would boot, the A500/A2000 Roms would not support the 3000's onboard SCSI controller. You might also loose the 32 bit fast ram. There was a discussion about this somewhere years ago.

I realize the issues about booting from SCSI, but at this point it's ok for me since I'm only trying to see if my A3000 will work - don't care about booting at this point.

BTW, Jeff, where was this discussion? I've been searching around but not finding much :-(

[da9000]

Interesting! I assumed that only 1 ROM is needed. Wrong! Thanks for looking at the schematics for this Zac. I didn't think to look there or where the traces lead.

Hummm.. now to find 2 A500/2000 2.04 Kickstarts. If I do, I'll definitely try it, because I have no other recourse. Of course, like you said, no SCSI or Fast RAM, but I don't care right now since all I'm trying to do is see if I can get my dead A3000 to relive. If it does, then I'll get proper ROMs for it.

I'll update the thread if I have new results.

[da9000]

I appreciate the advice TjLaZer, but my situation is like this:

The board is dead as of this moment. Paying $40 for the 3.1 ROMs you offered me will be around $45-50 (with shipping). What if the board is still dead afterwards? What if the new ROMs burn themselves? I'd rather not. As for the $7, thanks for pointing it out. I checked them out, but unfortunately they're from a "blacklisted" seller: centsisoft. I cannot allow myself to buy from my blacklist: centsisoft, Doomy, boogiegail, eslapion and a couple more I forget right now.