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Differences in A3000 Motherboards
« on: February 24, 2010, 04:42:39 PM »
I just got a hold of a couple of rev. 9 A3000 motherboards.  I already have a sweet system built with a rev. 7.3 and am wondering if it would be worth tearing down my whole system to upgrade the motherboard with the newer rev.

Any ideas?
 

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Re: Differences in A3000 Motherboards
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2010, 04:50:11 PM »
If it works fine - dont touch it!!

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Re: Differences in A3000 Motherboards
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2010, 04:56:54 PM »
I second that emotion  :)  Only monkey with mobo replacing if only absolutely necessary or you're extremely bored and are willing to take the chance of accidentally mucking something up.  lol
 

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Re: Differences in A3000 Motherboards
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2010, 05:01:42 PM »
Quote from: Sandman;544893
I just got a hold of a couple of rev. 9 A3000 motherboards.  I already have a sweet system built with a rev. 7.3 and am wondering if it would be worth tearing down my whole system to upgrade the motherboard with the newer rev.

Any ideas?

Perhaps some new rev. of chipset: look Western digital SCSI and other chips.
http://amiga.resource.cx/mod/a3000.html
http://www.amiga-resistance.info/bboahfaq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=7&id=1854&artlang=en
Do you have the rev.7.3 A3000@16 ou 25Mhz ?
Nothing really new between 7.3 and last Motherboard otherwise ROM modifications.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2010, 06:14:47 PM by VingtTrois »
-A3K(T)040@35MHz/78MB/KS3.1/OS3.9/Buster11/PICASSO II/GVP IO/A2088XT/DENEB/HDD18GB
-A3K(D)030@25MHz/134MB RAM/KS3.1/OS3.9/Buster11/RETINA Z2/OKTAGON 2008/VLAB YC/MIDI/DKB3128/HDD18GB
-A2K/ROM 1.3-3.1/2MBCHIP/8MB/A2091/OKTAGON 2008/A2058/TANDEM IDE/FlickerFixer-Scandoubler/Genlock
-A1200/KS3.1/2MB+9MB/CF2GB A1200[/
 

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Re: Differences in A3000 Motherboards
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2010, 06:57:46 PM »
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http://www.devili.iki.fi/mirrors/haynie/systems/amiga3k/docs/pcb.rev.txt

Good to know! I was tempted to do the same operation with mine since it has an older rev. motherboard although it has the latest chips (WDC 08, Ramsey 7, Superdmac 04 & Superbuster 11). Better not touch itm according to that info, it's just not worth it :-)
 
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