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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Any Successful 3.1 ROM Installs?
- Date: 02 Feb 96 00:36:20 +0500
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- MG> In article <1401.6602T1207T1052@a.crl.com>, kennyh@a.crl.com
- MG> (Kenny Hydock) says:
- >>I installed 3.1 ROMs in my A3000 a while back with no problems. The
- >>only thing I had a question about was answered by the folks I bought
- >>the ROMs from
- >>(ACS in Sacramento, CA). According to the docs that came with the
- >>ROMs, it said to install the ROM 0 into the socket marked ROM 0 and
- >>described its location. I looked at the motherboard and found that
- >>the sockets were labelled opposite to what the docs showed. I
- >>called ACS to verify wether I should follow the docs or the
- >>motherboard. They chcked and called me back to say follow the docs.
- >> I did and had no problem with the install. I did not need a ROM
- >>tower either.
-
- MG> I have an A3000T and installed the 3.1 ROM's OK. The only
- MG> complaint I have
- MG> (and I know it's a nitpicky thing) is that one of the Workbench
- MG> colors (I forget the name of the motif I had in 2.0) is now a
- MG> sickly green instead of the normal off-white. If I go into
- MG> PointerPrefs, the large pointer is correctly colored. I click
- MG> Save and everything's hunky-dory. But next time I boot, the
- MG> same thing. Anyone ever hear of this or have any fixes? Can I
- MG> run a script in my user-startup that will fix this? Right now, I
- MG> just put PointerPrefs in WBStartup, but it's still really
- MG> annoying.
-
- MG> Matt
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- Go delete *ALL* palette related prefs files anyplace in the system, THEN
- rerun the prefs progs and save them. You have something ijn ENV-ARC: thats
- over-writing your RAM:ENV prefs everytime you reboot.
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