Any thoughts?

Both are enabled.

Is allow_url_fopen enabled on your site, or do you have the curl library?

I have noticed though that it tried longer to load the dashboard than any other page on the backend then it's like it times out.

I am the server administrator. PHP Error Display is on and Joomla is set to Max. However the page is entirely blank including being completely empty of all HTML. Nadda.

Right click on the page -> view source. Is it empty? If you don't see anything it means that something is preventing the errors from showing on. If you can't show them by changing the values in the global config, then ask your server administrator to configure php to display those. You should be able to manipulate this setting through joomla.

Regards,
Daniel

It shows exactly as I said, nothing. It's an entirely blank page. ;-) Even with error reporting on.

Go in the backend, system->global configuration. SEt error reporting to maximum. Now when you go to the dashboard it shouldn't show you a blank page, but the error that prevents the page from loading.

Regards,
Daniel