To find out you can enter the BIOS setup by hitting the F2 key when you see the Dell splash screen while booting up. Once inside the setup arrow down to "System Memory" and there it will list how much RAM is installed in your system. Hit the ENTER key and a box will appear listing how much RAM is in each slot as well as whether it is ECC or NON ECC.




Dimension 8100 1.3ghz
20gb Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 hard drive
40gb Western Digital Ultra ATA/100 hard drive
512mb PC800 RAM
19" Viewsonic G90mb monitor
32mb NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4x w/TV out
SB Live! digital soundcard with 1024 voices
Labtec Pulse-424 speakers with subwoofer
NEC DV-5800A 16X DVD ROM drive
LG CED 8080B 8X/4X/32X CD-RW drive
Dell enhanced performance USB keyboard
Logitech cordless optical mouse
3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI ethernet card
COM21 DP1100 cable modem with attbi broadband
Linksys BEFSR41 Cable/DSL router
HP Laserjet 1200se
HP Deskjet 970Cxi
HP Scanjet 5470Cxi
Dual boot Windows ME / Windows XP home
BIOS version A09 (works fine with XP)
Build date 7/7/01

Usually Dell supplies ECC RDRAMs which has the error correction capability(with parity) and it's very expensive(approx.A$600 per 256MB RDRAM). Non-ECC RDRAM does not have parity(no parity) and it's cheap(approx. A$200). I have installed 256MB RDRAM(with ECC facility) and 512MB RDRAM installed with non-ECC. I heard that making RD RAMs will stop manufacturing very soon. Those were all PC-800s. See ya...

Usually Dell supplies ECC RDRAMs which has the error correction capability(with parity) and it's very expensive(approx.A$600 per 256MB RDRAM). Non-ECC RDRAM does not have parity(no parity) and it's cheap(approx. A$200). I have installed 256MB RDRAM(with ECC facility) and 512MB RDRAM installed with non-ECC. I heard that making RD RAMs will stop manufacturing very soon. Those were all PC-800s.

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Dimension 8100/1.7GHz