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From: seh@pmafire.UUCP (Steve Holaday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Probs adding RAM to A3000
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.141622.20688@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 14:16:22 GMT
References: <10870001@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Reply-To: seh@pmafire.UUCP (Steve Holaday)
Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering
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In article <10870001@hpfcso.HP.COM> cunniff@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ross Cunniff) writes:
>Well, I finally got my ZIPs for my A3000 (TI parts, 80ns) and I
>installed them (I'm typing on my 3000 as I speak).  A few comments about
>the process:
>
> [comments on installation...]
>
>Now for the problem.  1.3 seems perfectly happy with the setup.  I've
>done some rudimentary tests and the RAM seems to be in fine condition.
>HOWEVER, when I try to boot 2.0, the system always gurus before 2.0 is
>finished booting, both from the floppy and from the hard drive.  The
>guru occurs just after the Kickstart has been read in.  It is always
>8000 0003, task 07D03238.  I suspect that it is in Exec or Dos or
>something.  My configuration is:  1MB chip ram, 1MB fast DIPs, 2MB fast
                            here is your problem ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>ZIPs.  The jumpers seem OK.  Does anybody have any clues about what
>might be going wrong?  I really want to boot 2.0 again someday...
>
From what I understand, you cannot have both fast DIP and ZIP.  Try
moving your fast DIP to chip memory :-).  This will give you 2 Megs
of chip RAM.
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