Amiga 3000D 3640 and guru's with cybergraphx

[Ral-Clan]

I know this is no help, but I owned an A3000 for a little while, and while I loved the design of the thing, it often gave me strange 800004 GURUS for no apparent reason.  It also did other strange things like not recognize certain hard drives my A2000 would recognize, and when some devices were plugged into the external SCSI port it would not turn on at ALL (pressing the power switch did nothing (not even a power LED) until the device was removed (this, despite careful termination).

I remembered the A3000 would GURU when AmiDock in OS3.9 was launched at startup, for instance.

So while I loved the A3000's design, it just did too many wierd things for me to want to use it over my A2000 (plus it was damn tight to fit anything inside and it ran hotter than an A2000).

[Ral-Clan]

The 2000 is a great box, rugged tanks that are reliable.

I think the same of the 3000's as well.  I have a venerable 3000 that has worked perfectly well from the factory and hasn't missed a beat.

The real tragedy with the 3000's (an really any Amiga) is that they aren't maintained and start to fail and act up.  The 3000D that gave me grief I picked up from an old amiga club member had battery damage, I had to solder jumper wires to get the battery to the clock and remember time.

Yeah, my Amiga 3000 had no battery problems.  I removed the battery as soon as I came into possession of it, and it had not leaked.

I do think it's a great machine - and probably the best design.  My particular one was just always a little "wierd" - another thing I remember is that it would sometimes recognise the Picasso card I had installed in it, then other times it would start up as if the Picasso card was missing.

While I LOVE all Amigas, and am huge fan of big box Amigas, I find they still run the most stable when you are running them in factory configuration. Add a processor card or one or two Zorro cards and things are still almost always good (not 100% of the time, but mostly).  Start adding three or four Zorro cards, hang multiple SCSI devices off the internal and external ports, etc. etc. and you start getting into stability issues.  You start having to cross your fingers at boot time.

At least that's the experience I've had with all big box Amigas.