At last, I got me an A3000!!

[jiffydos]

Congrads!  My A3000 is my favourite of all my amigas.  I'm having plenty issues of my own.  As long as you have 3.1 roms, which obviously you do, there aren't many upgrades short of the video card.  That's what I am working on right now.

My favourite upgrade I made was my Budha Flash ide controller.  And, that's not even because of the IDE controller, that's because of the A1200 style clockports that come on the card.  I have a Subway USB adapter hooked up, and using all kinds of fun USB stuff, including a USB floppy, keyboard, mouse and cdrom.

I love this stuff!

Congrads on have 16MB of ZIP ram already in your machine.  That's the biggest nightmare to deal with.  LOL

[jiffydos]

Good to know that's the newest one around... that's what I have...  just recently got enough zips to have that same pretty row full of zip ram.  

[jiffydos]

You can install an A3640 in an A3000... but they did not come with one.

Sounds like his machine is never even booting kickstart.

I'd say to start with making sure that ALL your chips are seated correctly, especially the kickstart roms in the right hand corner.

Also, try holding down both mouse buttons as your turn the unit on.  This should give you a diagnostic/boot screen.  If not, something is likely hardware wrong.