NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/hardware/14746

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!pride!copes
From: [e-mail] (Simon Cope)
Subject: Re: ROM Tower 3000s
Message-ID: <copes.715323711@pride>
Keywords: ROM Tower 3000 A3000 roms eproms
Sender: [e-mail] (News Manager)
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:01:51 GMT
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>I recently got 2.04 ROMs for my 3000.  Upon installation I discover that I
>have a ROM Tower version 3000.  I tried placing the new ROMs in the
>appropriately numbered sockets on the motherboard and removing the tower unit
>as a Commodore rep instructed but my machine wouldn't boot at all.  I checked
>to make sure the chips were in right and they were.

>So, I decided to try them in the tower and everything works fine now.  But now
>I'm wondering what those empty sockets on the motherboard are for.  Different
>version ROMs for Unix machines maybe?

>J Koszarsky

I've been told that the other pair of sockets are for eproms because they have
different pinouts.  My A3000 is the latest revision and has 2.04 roms in the
front pair of sockets.  I have read an article on installing an 040 board and
the early release (read eprom) roms that came with it had to be installed into
the rear sockets.  The UNIX machines come with boot code on disk that is run
under AmigaDOS.
The 'Boot Roms' that were originally in the machine are 2.01 (from memory).
You can get them to boot up workbench by clicking on the hidden close gadget
somewhere up the top left of the rom boot menu.

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