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Re: How to upgrade a 2000 to 2MB chip RAM?
« on: January 10, 2010, 12:27:25 PM »
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Hi guys
I want to upgrade my rev6.3 2000 from its current 1MB to 2MB chip RAM, but I'm a bit confused on how this is done. I've seen mentioned that you just need to replace the agnus/denise chips, then I have also seen on amigkit a NTSC mini megi upgrade (but my 2000 is PAL, and its an expensive purchase for just an extra 1MB), and I have also read that I may need to change a seperate RAM chip.
 
I don't want to spend a fortune doing this, having already wasted money on two 030 accelerators that didn't work/died, I just want to add more memory to my 2000 so its more useable. So can anyone help please? :)

Hi
 
You can upgrade an A2000 to 2MB chip ram using the DKB Megachip, Ive done this on a rev. 6.0 motherboard before and it will definately work on your 6.3 board. The manual states that you need to do some "modding" on the rev. 4.x boards but Ive never seen one so cant comment on that.
 
Its just a case of slotting in the MegaChip and then connecting the "fly lead" from the MegaChip to pin 36 on Gary, it takes all of 2 minutes to do that bit :) You do need the MegaChip though, I dont think you can do it any other way as far as Im aware.
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Amiga 4000/040 25Mhz - 18MB Ram-HDD-CDRW- Picasso 2 2MB GFX OS3.9
Amiga 2000/030 25Mhz - 10MB Ram - GVP HC+8 with HDD and CDROM OS3.1 and a DKB MEGAChip
Amiga 1200/030 50Mhz - 18MB Ram - CF>IDE OS3.1 Squirrel SCSI
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