AC if you have MSN I'll be online for live support when you wake up, otherwise we could meet up on IRC or something..... Point is, I am on-call for work, so can't be for away from the PC all of the 3 day weekend, so I'll be here with 72 hours to spare to help you out. Unless a server explodes somewhere ;) Don't worry man, we'll get her working :) We should work from that point. If you can disconnect the midi cables, start it OK, then connect them up and it is all fine, then we need to find out why it fails to boot up with the cable connected, and why it succeeds in booting if the cable is connected and there is software running at the other end of the cable. That sure is weird.