Thanks for your reply !
No fast memory, no accelerators. Just compact flash hard drive. I have tried disabling the hard drive in the early startup menu, still hangs, I removed the hdd from the machine, still hangs. Removed and cleaned the floppy drive heads, cleaned the disks, still hangs . Wrote the demo floppy numerous times to numerous disks, had a small degree of success with the "nibble" option in x-copy. Yet it didnt always successfully load. I tried a gotek from another machine and success it loaded ! It appears to be the the floppy drive and/or failing floppy disks.