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Hello Hillary, I don't know if this will help but I had a problem before with the Toaster / TBC III combo. When trying to install the software the system would fail when it reached any point when it looked for the card (I believe around 30 or so it did this check, but its been a while). The problem here was that the TBC card was connected to the internal communications connector on the motherboard. When the toaster started up it had a real problem with this. When I switched to the external connector it was happy. The toaster is very sensitive to your configuration so I will tell to do the things that I always tell my customers. Start with the basics and then add things in until the machine fails. At that point hopefully you have found the culpret. If you have 4000 with extra goodies in it first remove those items and them with only the Toaster installed try to reinstall your software. Make certain you disable all small utilities that you might be running at startup. Please also check the unreasonable like make certain that the toaster card is configured correctly. IE that its daughterboard is seated in the 4000 position and that all your jumpers on the toasters main board are set to 4000 (Sorry can't remember if that's down or up. It does say though in the manual and on the board). I have a 4000 with a 2x CD-ROM, 510MB Quantum, 120MB IDE, a WARP Engine 040/40 with 20MB or RAM on it with a stock Power Supply so I would say that while its possible that may be your power, it is more likely something else (but CBM did make junky power supplys :), I think they are made in French Polynesia or the Belgium Congo (just kidding)). If you have a stock 4000 also try the above with no other programs loaded. I do not know if you are using the stock 120MB harddrive or not but if you are using an older drive in addition to the Amigas stock 120MB, like an older Seagate then that may be your problem as well (ie: SCSI Termination or the increased power demands from an older drive). Sorry for meandering, hope my babbling helps….. Shawn Silent Paw Productions