How do 3.1 roms fit on the A3000D?

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Hey guys, my A3000D 3.1Roms just arrived! But, the instructions are missing an important part. It said to note the orientation of the current chips. But the 2.04 roms are quite different from 3.1 roms.

The 3.1 chips have a notch on one side and the 2.04 roms have a small dimple in the lower left corner.

If I install the 3.1Rom with the notch to match the marking on the motherboard, that would put the label upsidedown, that's ok, right?

The motherboard is a REV 9, so there's no adaptor board.

Any current A3000D users with 3.1 roms? Help me out, I don't want to fry these chips!! :-o

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melott wrote:

You are correct that the notch and dimple indicate the
front (pin one) position so install them the same as the
old chips and pay attention to the chip numbers.
If you put chip one in the chip two position it just
won't boot, I'm not sure what would happen if you turned
the chips 180 degrees and installed them.

Ok, good. What I don't get, though, is why does chip 1 go in the Rom 0 slot? And chip 0 go in the Rom 1 slot? :crazy:

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[color=ffa500]Alll right!!![/color][/b][/i]

Another happy ending. My old A3000 is the happy recipient of the 3.5 operating system! Thanks all! Your advice was most helpfull. Putting the Zip chips in was easy at least.

At first, I put the two chips in the wrong slots just like you said you did, and got the blank screen, then I noticed that the slot numbers are labeled on the chips, DUH! But by switching them, WHAMO!! the screen comes up and off I go!! MY, installing by CDrom is way better than by floppy.

But, now that I've been able to install ImageFX4.5, it crashes right off the bat when I load it up. :-? Oh well, it's almost a happy ending :-D