A4000 in a tower issues

[tonyvdb]

Hi everyone, its been at least a couple years since Ive been on here and my A4000 has been sitting almost that long without use.

Today I turned it on and I get the Inovision screen (I have the video adapter that clips directly on the video chip so I can display on a normal LCD monitor) but after that nothing. it stays black. The keyboard works as I can use the three finger solute to reboot.  

I did the "hold both mouse buttons down" trick and I do get the boot options screen. If I also boot from a workbench disk i do get access to the other drive I have on board. I can hear both drives spin up.

A little more history with my machine:
I put it in a tower and have a video toaster flyer installed (SCSI drives are in a separate tower), I have a board that comes off the original zorrow slots and allows the cards to sit properly in the tower (I dont remeber the name of this board).

I hope not to spend money to get this going again but if I have to replace the drive then so be it.

Thanks for your help

[tonyvdb]

So if I understand correctly, if you boot from a Workbench disk you're able to boot normally?

Yes but I dont see the OS drive show up just the secondary drive.

[tonyvdb]

The Power supply is a newer ATX 400watt unit that I retrofitted to work on the A4000.

[tonyvdb]

no, I guess I need to do that first. Its been so long Ive forgotten how to trouble shoot this machine.

[tonyvdb]

Ok, I disconnected all drives and including the CDrom and yes I do get the 3.1rom screen asking for a floppy.

[tonyvdb]

If I connect the drive only the HD led flashes as its accessing something but the screen stays blank, If I plug the CDrom drive the HD led stays solid but I suspect its because the os is not loading the ASIM CDFS software?
No change if I force it to boot off the drive

[tonyvdb]

so a dead drive I guess? now comes the fun part. finding an IDE drive LOL

[tonyvdb]

I do have Amiga forever on my PC is winUAE part of that? I regret selling my CyberstormPPC and its SCSI controller, was much more reliable.

[tonyvdb]

So is there a SCSI to IDE adapter that would work on my a4000?

[tonyvdb]

Has anyone tried a Solid state drive in their Amiga?
Is there a sata > IDE adapter?

[tonyvdb]

IMHO a CF adapter is the easiest way to go.

Thanks, I think I will go this rout
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=883