Another New/Old Amiga user

[Tenacious]

Good job removing the battery!  I replaced mine with a rechargable cordless phone battery (confirm polarity first).

The The flickerfixer output should be able to go into the input port on the Picasso II with the proper cable.  This way the Picasso will pass thru native Amiga screen modes AND output it's own resolutions.  No monitor cable swapping required.  Have you done this?

A longer SCSI cable and SCSI CDrom should be all that's required (no drivers, this is an Amiga).  You will have to set unique SCSI ID numbers (0 thru 6) for all devices connected.  If the CDrom is the last internal SCSI device on the ribbon cable, I think it will need termination.  All other internal devices should have termination turn OFF.  This termination scheme will be true of any external devices as well.

You could try for a SCSI CDwriter as well, these turn up on e-Bay from time2time.

Your machine has much potential added to it already.  A minority of us try to use Amigas for as much as possible, like surfing, Mp3s, graphics, office, faxing, etc.  This post came from an Amiga.

It would help others help you if you give more information, like motherboard revision, rom rev on the GVP SCSI controller, fast ram available, etc.

[Tenacious]

You'll probobly have to inspect.  The roms normally have a white paper label. The custom coprocessors on the MB will require you to interpret their part numbers with info on the net.

There are a number of system diagnostic/interrogation utilities available on aminet: SysInfo, Dostrace, SnoopDos, SCSIinquire, Scout, AIBB, etc, that are very useful.  I've never used them though to get chip revisions (may not work).

You probably have 1 Meg of chip ram on the MB (typical for a 2000) and 4 Megs of fast memory on the GVP.  I think GVP made 16 Meg modules that are now harder to find.

GVP made great peripherals and expansions.  Unfortunatly, they insisted on making custom memory modules.  Someone else may suggest other memory alternatives if you can't find more GVP.