Problems installing A3000D in Elbox Mirage 3000

[JamSessions]

I put my desk top (A3000D) into the Mirage tower, bought a 1.0 TB HD and a Fast ATA 4000 Zorro Card, but now when I boot from the TB HD my computer hangs (or maybe the mouse just won't move the pointer). I'm getting the following error messages:

80000003
80000004
8000000B
FFFF000B

Anyone got any ideas? My optical light on my mouse doesn't even come on... I checked the PSU with my meter and it matches schematics... I tried removing my accelerator, but it won't boot without it. I can boot by floppy, but it doesn't show my TB HD and even then the pointer won't move...

Regards, James

[amigean]

A few guesses:

- Memory not making contact (or damaged in 'transit') - push them down well.

- Socketed custom chips (my A3000 is 1500 miles away and can't remember which ones are) - try pushing them hard

- This hardware is old. There's a good chance that during the rehousing process some solder joint came loose. Look for contact problems throughout. Non-responsive mouse could be a short-circuit or a damaged CIA. Does the pointer move if you hold down one the amiga keys and the arrow keys?

- Remove all cards / other hardware and try to isolate the problem. You mention hanging upon boot off IDE. Have you tried SCSI? What happens if you boot off a floppy? Have you tried placing the Fast ATA on another zorro slot? Any incompatibilities between FASTA ATA and the A3000 (not sure it's a valid possibility, but worth a google search against your versions of Buster/Ramsey chips).

- What filesystem are you using in the HDD? SFS is known to place a greater strain on CPU and, in the presence of a flaky system overall, cause lockups. If booting from floppy works fine, try PFS on the HDD (freely available on aminet).

Good luck!

[Motormouth]

I tried removing my accelerator, but it won't boot without it.

mmmm.......

You probably did this, but did you change your clock jumpers back to the motherboard clock??

[JamSessions]

No I didn't change my clock jumpers back to the motherboard clock... Excuse my ignorance... How do I do this?

[Motormouth]

No I didn't change my clock jumpers back to the motherboard clock... Excuse my ignorance... How do I do this?

Check out the Amiga 3000 manual

http://oldcomputers.net/Amiga_3000_manual.pdf
Page G-1


This is what I "think" you need to check, but it has been a while you may want to double check:
J100 QUADCLK
This one will may or may not need to be changed (do you have a 16 or 25 mhz 030 on the motherboard)

J102 BRDCLK 2-3 (this sets the system clock to internal clock) processor cards usually want this changed to external
J104 CPUCLK 1-2 (this sets the the cpu to the internal clock) processor cards usually want this changed to external