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AmigaHope · 12 December 2019, 11:15

You might have a broken HDD or misconfigured master/slave. The A4000 does not like having a dead IDE device or no IDE device on its bus. If this is the case the firmware will still fire up but you have to wait for a good minute or so of black screen while it madly polling for IDE devices until it proceeds.

12 December 2019, 11:15	#9
AmigaHope Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New Sandusky Posts: 942	You might have a broken HDD or misconfigured master/slave. The A4000 does not like having a dead IDE device or no IDE device on its bus. If this is the case the firmware will still fire up but you have to wait for a good minute or so of black screen while it madly polling for IDE devices until it proceeds.