At this point I just want something to work properly. I agree that something is amiss in the startup sequence but I cant see anything out of the ordinary. I even disabled the user startup and that did not change. When I start to computer it access the drive an the screen stays blank. If I remove the drive I get the "insert workbench disc screen". If I use my instal discs and have the drive hooked up it loads into workbench properly and shows all my files and programs as they should be but of course its not using the startup off the hard drive rather the floppy.
Boot from floppy, just to prove that it's still working. Then remove the floppy, reset the Amiga (Ctrl-A-A) and hold down both mouse buttons until the early startup menu appears. Now click on "boot without startup-sequence". A window should appear with a DOS prompt. At the prompt enter
set echo on
execute s/startup-sequence
Now every command executed will be printed to the screen. Watch it and tell us the last command which appears before the computer freezes.
If a reset occurs (like done by OS 3.9's SetPatch), hold down both mouse buttons again and start with set echo on again.
