Problem fitting kickstart 3.1 rom's in A3000

[alexh]

There are lots of strange things regarding A3000 ROMS.

Whatever you do, do NOT try the ROM's in the wrong orientation, you could destroy your A3000.

What you could try is swapping the chips over (in the correct orientation) sometimes the silk screen on the ROM tower is bad. (Ah I see you have already tried that)

You could try them without the ROM TOWER. Some ROM chips for the A3000 eliminate the need for a ROM TOWER, these go in the REAR set of ROM sockets.

[alexh]

If you are not going to install an accelerator, and you have some RAM in your Amiga, why not just install KS3.1 into the correct directory on your hard disk and use KS1.4's softbooting? You of course need the A3000 KS3.1 image that is not encrypted.

I recommend that you make a superkickstart floppy disk before trying any of this.

[alexh]

you have the old 1.4 BootRom chips eh? Why bother at all?

(1) Doesn't work with accelerators.
(2) Uses 512kbytes of RAM.