I also have got an A4000 with all stuff on it but I don't use it now. The thing I wanna say dates from my dead A1200. It also needed 25 seconds to boot up and then show the OS 3.1 screen asking for a disc, even when the hd was connected with everything on it. I tried to use the easy way of finding the cause and tried disconnecting everything one by one until I finally ended up with a bare naked A1200 motherboard with no hd and no floppy and kickstart replaced by the original 3.0 and the powersupply from my tower replaced by a heavy duty A500 one. Result : still 25 seconds delay and then still the screen asking for a floppy. Now I noticed the following strange thing : I used a Blizzard 1230 with scsi and found out that, when everything was connected in the tower including Z4 and scsi hd's, that the scsi hd's were recognized in early startup (but they didn't have any boot priority) but not my ide hd. So in theory I could still use my scsi hd's to run my computer keeping in mind that every reset will take at least 25 seconds ... I didn't want to take any risc and just got me another motherboard ...
