I had similar problems with Morphos 1.42 and the last Firmware update May04? I solved these problems by ditching my high latency 1 Gig Dimm, now everthing works great, except I only have 256Meg of Ram. From what I understand, this new update tightens the ram speed quite a bit. What speed is your one gig Dimm? Mine was 1 gig ddr 2700 with a cas latency of 3.