My freeze is on kernel boot, I believe for some reason it can't find the doubletalk, but that's a guess based on how long it runs the hd before it stops and that same time seems to pass when it does work. If it says:"doubletalk pc found" it's gonna fly. There was something in the asis manual about some unusual address needs in the bios, but I assume these are base ram addresses not i/o addresses as per the synthesizer. I have tried changing the synth's address jumpper to a couple different locations with no apparrent differences. I suspect it's a kernel problem and I'll have to go to9 when it arrives. Tom Fowle