Quoth ROCHAVEL@xxxxxxxxxx: > I have exactly the same problem, and Thom Christopher give me a solution > that I attach in this mail. couldn't have put it better myself :-) Please - when you have a working system, make sure you complain to Dell about this. It is a problem with their buggy BIOS. They have been aware of these problems for quite some time and are *still* shipping systems with this fault! cheers chris -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | TELESCOPE, n. | | A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the | | telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a | | multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell | | summoning us to the sacrifice. | | -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86