I dont know if it actually finishes booting up. The last thing it showed during boot up is "loading visuals" and then it seems to go into the standby mode as usual only the blinking standby light doesn't illuminate and i am unable to turn the empeg on. I just formated the hard drive and reloaded my songs by the way, because when trying to add a second hard drive i plugged the wrong one up accidently formatted the original hard drive. SMART move huh? Anyway i just my empeg to work as it once did...HELP!!!