C9

Specifications

4 GB RAM
3.2 GHz speed
Ethernet card: Net extreme Gigabit

Dell Express service code: 37484 56261
Service Tag: 1PZQFD1
800-BUY-DELL
800-289-3355

Problem Definition : "Amount of available memory limited to 256MB

Strike F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility "

Solution : Actually it has 4GB RAM, but we can not see the full size of memory. So go to "BIOS setting and OS Install Mode -off"

Graphics card part to get, according to : www.Dell.com

Card sent from MN Solutions was the:

http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A4740647

PNY Technologies Quadro NVS 300 512 MB Graphics card - DDR3 - PCI Express

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/LegacyLinks.aspx?Lang=en-us

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=nmk2m

I/O Slots

Five total:
two PCI Express™ slots (1x8 lane and 1x1 lane); [black]
two PCI-X® slots (64-bit/133MHz, 3.3v); [white]
one PCI slot (32-bit/33MHz) [white]

Network Interface Cards

Single embedded Broadcom Gigabit2 NIC; (bottom)
Optional dual port Intel x4 PCIe Gigabit2 NIC;
Optional single port Intel PCIe Gigabit2 NIC;
Optional Broadcom x1 PCIe Gigabit2
Optional Broadcom x4 PCIe Gigabit2 NIC w/ TOE

http://www.dell.com/downloads/emea/products/pedge/en/840_techpecs_revised_en.pdf

Alternatives?

PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 1 GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card GeForce GT610 ?

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=&cs=

Rick Shaddock
www.CICorp.com
Rick@CICorp.com