A Quick Call To Helpful Viking Support and I was up!
rating: 5
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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