Sound Problems? (Score 1)

As far as I can tell its right before the kernel prints "Sound initialization started" durring the bootup sequence (for me, right after it says "lp0: using parport0 (polling)."). Once it gets to this position it wont continute. Only a cold boot (reset button) lets me get by this part. I've had this problem since I've started using devel kernel (starting with 2.1.130). Anyone know whats going on?