from the time I press the power button to power up the PC to the time it gets to the log on screen (username/password), it takes anywhere between a minute to 3 minutes at times, usually 2-3 minutes. It just sits there, pure black screen then eventually the log on screen comes up. I have checked what I could in the Bios to make sure everything is ok and it appears it is. The pc is only 4 months old and wasn't like this before. Moreover, I sure don't expect Vista to act like this much less with a new Dell PC....help, please?? PS- I have the Vista Premium (32-bit) on a Dell Dimension E520 with Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6300 (1.86GHz,1066FSB) with 2MB cache, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Graphics GPU and 250GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM). I did have a Nvidia 7300LE video card installed but I have removed it from one of the PCI-e slots.