I've solved this issue a while ago, it was missing 12v as castellen put it. Strangely, problem was a fix done by the previous owner that escaped my attention, near the power socket (totally unrelated to audio area). Appearantly 12v track along with a diode burned out and the previous owner replaced it, but the solder was dead on one end, it wasn't inducting. 12v was missing from the whole board. After a quick fix, my a4000 blasted my speakers with pure joy after god knows how many years

now I'm unto another problematic a4000 board which has a mouse port that doesn't recognise horizontal movement. Sounds easy enough but I couldn't locate a problematic part at the first look. might bug you people again in a short while...
many thanks for all the replies.