#Slow Amiga 3000
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Stephen:
If I read your message right, your A3000 has only 1 meg of CHIP RAM,
correct? No chips near the ZIP sockets?
In that case, the slowdown is caused by the fact that you have no FAST
RAM. CPU access to CHIP RAM is shared, giving the machine an effective
speed of about 7 Mhz or so. Adding the FAST RAM will boost your speed
siginificantly.
Example: Adding FAST RAM to an A1200 results in DOUBLE the speed in
benchmark tests!
BTW, Yes you have SuperKickstart. SuperKickstart is read off of a file on
your hard disk, and loaded into protected RAM (NO ROM CHIPS). It robs you
of 512K memory.
— Dave
Thanks for the feedback.
I palyed around with my configuration and re-installed my 2.1 software. The
machine seems to be back up to speed now.
Thank you VERY much for the feedback. I printed it out and stuck it on my
wall.
Steve
Coatesville, PA
Steve:
You're welcome! I think that's the first time someone (besides myself)
hung up something I wrote on their wall! <g> Glad to be of help.
I have an A3000 myself, with 6 Megs ram total, and OS 3.1. I couldn't be
happier with it.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!
— Dave