My friend has a Dell PC with a Pentium 3 700 CPU, running Win98 SE. Originally, the memory was 128 MB and recently I added a 256 MB Crucial stick (384 total). No other modification has been made. Lately, he reported extremely slow POSTs and I witnessed it yesterday. The process can take more than 5 minutes. During one of these periods, I hit the DELETE key and it eventually went into setup. The DELL logo screen went away and I could see the memory being counted at a rate of about one MB per second, or slower. After counting the RAM, it went through the other checks at a normal rate and then entered setup. While there, it took several seconds to move from one item to another. Would appreciate any advice as to how I can help him to overcome this problem.