Willbonds,

I seem to be having the same problem. Last night I installed both a new hard drive and a new modem. I had been assuming that it was the hard drive. Now, I am second guessing this assumption. My computer seems to work fine once I press to tell it to boot. However, it is a pain to do so. I was on the phone with Dell for several hours. They had me do everything from move the jumpers to d/l a new bios, but neither worked. I am waiting on a response from them. Lets hope we figure something out.