Hi Fellow Coconuts. My power up sequence, is Hard-drive -> Disk Drives -> MPI -> Coco 3 -> CM8 Monitor, This Has been My way for about 18 years, Had no problems so Far, And When I turn it all off, I do it in this order, Coco 3 -> MPI -> drives -> CM8 monitor last. laters Briza Viva Le Coco