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Thanks for all who replied
It seemed like it was going to be a hardware fault, and it was!!
I tried the same hard drive in another machine and after reinstalling Ubuntu and the installing wine the config command worked as it should with no lockups.
I will try the original machine again when I gat the time changing video and sound cards to see where exactly the fault was.
At least I have an answer
Thanks again
