Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!orc!bu.edu!mirror!ssi3b1!level10!dfisk From: dfisk@level10.UUCP (David Fisk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 512K FastRam 3000 Message-ID: Date: 1 Sep 90 02:12:47 GMT References: <1990Aug28.192905.13813@nmt.edu> Lines: 22 >In article <1990Aug28.192905.13813@nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes: > >My friend recently bought an A3000 and upon setting it up and doing an >avail, it showed the maximum FAST ram to be 512K! So we checked the chips >and jumper settings and all seemed to be fine... also took a look at the >startup-sequence to see if there were any descreptancies, but none found. >Any help would be appreciated... I ran into the same situation the first time I upgraded a 3000. You see, the first time I did it, it was the store's demo unit and the unit showed 2M Chip total and 1M Fast. However, when I added memory to a recent RELEASE 3000 I only got 512K Fast and was confused for a while. Then a quick call to tech support cleared things up. With the current 3000's the memory that is used to load KickStart doesn't even show up to the system. This is why you only see 512K, the other 512 is KickStart. I also noticed that these 3000's have a little daughter board in the EPROM sockets holding the boot chips. Dave... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Fisk - level10!dfisk@ssi3b1.zone1.com dfisk@level10.UUCP ...{mit-eddie,pyramid,datacube}!mirror!ssi3b1!level10!dfisk