re standard and enhanced question ak cleveland freenet edu martin linsenbigler writes why is win sometimes so finicky i have a new dell dx mhz megs ram windows was working just great i had a bus mouse and mother board problem dell replaced the mouse gave me a newer mouse driver for windows and replaced the motherboard just prior to this problem windows would only load up every other time i would get the logo and either it would go on into windows or lock up this was very consistent every other time much deleted any thoughts or comments sounds like a memory conflict problem which can cause truly weird symptoms like these call dell tech support or better post to them on cserve if you have an account and get the memory range s used by video ram on your machine the block windows from using those ranges with an emmexclude statement in the enh section of system ini you probably should include a statement excluding the same range from emm or whatever memory manager you use in config sys dell installs windows on the machines they ship but the installation doesn t consist of much more than copying the files to a hard disk you still have to do the work and the fact that you have the problem in enhanced mode but not standard strongly suggests a high memory conflict
