Glad to hear it's fixed, and thanks for posting back.

"jp2msft" <jp2msft@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Daave,
>
> That got it. In the BIOS, it was set to some "more efficient" instead
> of
> "more powerful".
>
> I tried updating this yesterday, but this site seemed to be down.
>
> "Daave" wrote:
>> Certain Dells have a BIOS setting called OS Install Mode. If the
>> setting
>> is "On," then you can only access 256MB of RAM. So, make sure it is
>> set
>> to "Off." See Table 6-2: