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Summary: A Quick Call To Helpful Viking Support and I was up!
Review: My GX300 "seemed" to be running slow of late because of the number of applications I was running under Windows 98 SE. I thought the easiest upgrade path would be to order in some new memory.My GX300 came installed with only (1) 128mb RAMBUS RIMM. In the 2nd slot was the terminator called a CRIM (looks like a plain circuit board with no memory). I decided a 256mb RAMBUS RIMM would give me the best bang for the buck (in RAMBUS memory, that still means you are paying several times more than SDRAM) so I ordered one (yes, only one against the advice of Viking's website) of these modules in. I put it in and my heart sank when my PC wouldn't even boot! A quick call to Viking support and I found out that I needed a BIOS update from Dell. I was running A07. In order to install a 256mb module, you need at LEAST version A08. When I went to Dell, I found out that the BIOS update was up to A10! So, long story short, I installed the BIOS upgrade and the RIMM went in without a hitch. By the way, you don't need a PAIR of modules (which Viking recommends) because the GX300 uses the i820 chipset; subsequent chipsets require MATCHED pairs. So I dodged a bullet of having to order another expensive RIMM module and used my existing 128mb module together with the new 256mb module. Thank you Amazon, Viking and Dell.
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Summary: A Quick Call To Helpful Viking Support and I was up!
Review: My GX300 "seemed" to be running slow of late because of the number of applications I was running under Windows 98 SE. I thought the easiest upgrade path would be to order in some new memory. My GX300 came installed with only (1) 128mb RAMBUS RIMM. In the 2nd slot was the terminator called a CRIM (looks like a plain circuit board with no memory). I decided a 256mb RAMBUS RIMM would give me the best bang for the buck (in RAMBUS memory, that still means you are paying several times more than SDRAM) so I ordered one (yes, only one against the advice of Viking's website) of these modules in. I put it in and my heart sank when my PC wouldn't even boot! A quick call to Viking support and I found out that I needed a BIOS update from Dell. I was running A07. In order to install a 256mb module, you need at LEAST version A08. When I went to Dell, I found out that the BIOS update was up to A10! So, long story short, I installed the BIOS upgrade and the RIMM went in without a hitch. By the way, you don't need a PAIR of modules (which Viking recommends) because the GX300 uses the i820 chipset; subsequent chipsets require MATCHED pairs. So I dodged a bullet of having to order another expensive RIMM module and used my existing 128mb module together with the new 256mb module. Thank you Amazon, Viking and Dell.
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