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Trying to be more specific. The software for the Toaster comes on 45 floppy disks. The first disk starts the installation program. 98% of the disks contain archived file material. After one has loaded around about 7 of the disks, the program proceeds to un-archive them to hard disk. Thus the program loads in a "batch" process. As mentioned, the failure is random and has no repeat pattern. It can crash during the period one is feeding floppies, or can do the same during the un-archiving process. Signs are…. the monitor screen goes dark grey and both floppy drive and hard drive cease to function. After a while you get the red GURU message, but then one has to start over – with disk #1. Frustrating in the extreme. Two years ago I had a similar – but not so dramatic and severe – with our Amiga 2000. After my hair turned white, I bought and installed a 300 wat power supply… and never looked back… until I met the Amiga 4000. Hence I do have some bias to that solution. Thanks very much for your interest. Regards, Hilary.