I have an old Dell optiquest GX1 that was given to me and I have no clue on the type of memory it has installed. Is there any software or anything linux trick that can tell me if its ECC, PC100 etc...?

I would like to know what I need to upgrade.

R

look for documentation on that particular computer on the web. it might say.

Also your bios might say.

I don't know of any utilities that would tell you speciffically.

What year is the comp/bios?

take a look here

http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/ban_gx1/specs.htm

just happen to have one my network at the office. :-)

well I have 256K and that should be more than enough... but my parts of X run really slow...
for example when attempting to save something via a web page it takes 5+ minutes from the time I click save as to the time I see the filesystem window. Sometimes it takes 10+ min for X to finally let me in or get to a login screen.

ok now when I check my resources I get something like this..
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256132 250364 5768 0 25620 147324
-/+ buffers/cache: 77420 178712
Swap: 506008 27976 478032

think I have a leak? any takers?

Dells are "poisoned" and when you try to run Linux on them, they have problems sometimes. It might be a case of Dell putting components like that in there (which is common), or it could be a case of a memory leak I suppose.

WOOHOO... I have an excuse to build a new box...

linux runs great on my dell. You just gotta put a little effort into it.

Huh?? Dells are "poisoned"?? Is there any specific data you are basing this statement upon, and can you cite any reliable news sources that would corroborate that position? Please elaborate, I'd be interested in more info on this topic. Thanks -- J.W.

Either way, there is a definate problem on this box that I dont know how to fix. If anyone has any suggestions I would be happy to try it out.

The box is definately old but should easily be able to run linux. Although I like the new toys I just bought Im not really happy about the price tag and would happily to take it back if someone knows how this can be fixed.

Hi

Download memtest utlity from www.memtest.org and run the same. It will give all the info.

Thanks
Siddiqu.T