Amiga 2000 Technical Question

[Darrin]

Nice find!  Take the lid off again and look to the right of the Zorro slots (and to the left of the floppy drives) and hopefully you'll see a 68030 CPU card in there.

Is that "controller card" in a Zorro slot?  It might actually be your CPU card with a SCSI controller on it (which is what mine has).  If that's the case then you also appear to have 8MB of RAM on it(which is better than some old Zorro SCSI card with 8MB).

Although you might have a CPU card with RAM plus this Zorro SCSI contrller from Supra:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1247

Also, somehow your Chip RAM has been upgraded too!  You might be lucky and have one of these:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=985

Check your battery too.  Either someone has removed it (hopefully) or it is leaking all over the motherboard.

[Darrin]

Hmmm....it's interesting that Sysinfo says you have a 68030 CPU when there's no CPU accelerator card in the CPU slot (or did you just take it out before taking the photos?).

In the first photo, all I see is a RAM expansion card and a hard drive controller card.  The slot to the right of the hard drive controller card is the CPU slot.

I was wondering the same thing about the CPU.  I have to assume he has something like this:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=63

It is a 68030 & FPU card for the A2000 that actually plugs into the CPU socket rather than the CPU slot.  It also has a jumper to switch it between 68000 and 68030 mode.

[Darrin]

Do I need to upgrade the kickstart ROM chip in the computer to get Workbench 3.1 working?

Check again and see if your SCSI card is the one I first mentioned as possibly being in your machine.  The BBOAH entry mentions something about an issue with 3.1 ROMS.

ClassicWB has a nice setup that works with 3.0.

[Darrin]

This is the SCSI controller I have

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1247

That's not the one I was thinking about.  That should be OK.

You're going to have a nice machine when you've finished.