3000T help request

I just got a 3000T, it has no floppy drive, and no (according to WB) fast RAM. Is there a goof trouble shooting resource out there?

Thank you.

@Nuder_Try

If you get desperate, you should be able to use any regular Amiga floppy drive. The problem you will run into is the front bezel which is a bit different on the 3000T to most of the other Amigas.

With the memory side of things and going off my (bad) memory, you should at least have 2Mb of chip RAM on the motherboard. The 3000 and 3000T can take up to 16Mb of fast RAM on the motherboard as well but they require special DRAM chips to do so or you could just go a RAM board like a ZorRAM or something similar.

@prowler

Thanks for the info on the drive. I've not need to use the default faceplates, I have a 5.25" to 3.5" thingie somewhere. Plus I'd rather use a HD than a DD drive. The machine only has 1 meg chip, so there's not too much I can do with it, but am looking for RAM addons (and another copy of 3.9) :)

well, for functionning properly the A3000 and T models needs to have at least 1 MB chip ram AND 1 MB fast ram installed !

I have several non-Amiga HD floppy drives. Is there an adaptor that I could use to get them to work?

Still getting this beast back up... Doing better, but would like to put in my Apollo 4060. However, I can't find instructions for the needed motherboard fix. Is there a good place to look for that?

@Nuder_Try

You mean:

https://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=219

moving the chips ?

Possibly, I thought there was a lead that needed to be run as well. (This is my 1st 3000)

I still have some Zip ram left, but it is not much 512or 1024KB. There is someone who sells it on Amibay, from Polen.

Also my sold 3000T had a Bigram 256MB, slower then onboard ram, but working fine.


That 68060 card does not work the onboard 3000T SCSI, reading the guide.

@benny

Would love a bigram, or similar, but haven't been able to find any for sale.

@benny

Do you recall what the modification to the ROMs are for that board. I got mine used, so no manual. All I could find only was the "use the supplied sockets" (also not included.)

@Nuder_Try

Individual is planning en upgraded version:

https://twitter.com/AmigaWorld/status/1182394008582217728/photo/1

@Nuder_Try

I don't owned the board myself, here is a german manual:

http://amiga.resource.cx/manual/Apollo4060.pdf

"A3000: a wire has to be connected between the A3000 SCSI chip and the Kickstart chips"

Quote:
Ugh! I'm so glad I gave up on the Classics

Does anyone know of the proper jumper settings for a 3000T to have an accelarator? I've a 68060 card (new, not the mentioned 4060), but all I can find online are what the jumpers do. not the correct settings. I'm afraid the descriptions are mainly gibberish to me.

Thanks in advance.