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From: danr@clark.edu (Dan Reuther)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A3000 Questions?
Message-ID: <1991May8.185513.14126@clark.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 18:55:13 GMT
Sender: danr@clark.edu (Dan Reuther)
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa. USA
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   I am thinking of using the Power Up program and upgrading my A2000 to 
an A3000.  I have several questions that I would like answered to help me
make my decision.  

    1.   I know that the A3000 will support the 68040 but am I correct in
       saying that the A2000 will not support the chip?

    2.   The 3000 has its hard disk controller on the motherboard, not in
       an expansion slot, right?  Can you add other hard drives to this 
       controller or do you have to get a new controller and take up an  
       expansion slot?

    3.   The 3000 has fewer expansion slots than the 2000 but it has two
       of the main things expansion slots are used for on the motherboard
      (up to 18meg, hard disk controller) so even though it has fewer slots
      it is equally if not more expandible than the 2000?

   Now for some questions about my 2000.
    
    4.  The battery in my clock seems to have died (I think).  When it happened
      I was in the preferences drawer, and when I came out I got a message 
      that said "battery backed up clock not found".  When it did this the  
      screen went weird.  It changed colors and scrammbled the video.  I ended 
      up rebooting.  Any way I tried the soulution someone suggested on the net
      using setclock reset but I got the same message, clock not found.  To get       to the point my monitor did the same sort of thing just yesterday.  I 
      couldn't get it back either.  I tried turning it off but that didn't help
      Now is this something from my clock (I doubt it) or was my monitor and 
      clock going out at the same time a coincidence.  By the way the monitor
      also has a tendency to shake, not interlace flicker, the whole screen
      shakes, and I get line across it while it does this.  It also used to
      make an annoing whine on startup.  What do you think, is my monitor gone,       and is my clock battery just dead, and if so can I replace it or should 
      my dealer do it.  By the way the monitor is a 1084s.

                            Thanks for the help,

                                a very confused Amiga person
                                    Dan Reuther.

danr@clark.edu