A4000 sudden death

[tone007]

Could any of the 4000 owners tell me what their amiga shows with no cpu board and no ram plugged ? Screen should be black ? Any colour ?

Black with no CPU board as far as I've seen.

Might be hard to tell if your '040 has a heatsink, but is the CPU heating up at all when the system is on for a couple of minutes?

edit: never mind, I re-read your first post.

[tone007]

No harddrive spin

That doesn't sound right to me, hard drive isn't even spinning up?  Sounds like a dead drive or lack of 12v. (Unless of course it's a SCSI drive that's waiting for the interface to spin it up.)