Drives

Externally accessible

one 5.25-inch drive

 

 

bay SATA DVD+/-RW

 

 

Super Multi Drive or

 

 

Blu-ray Disccombo

 

 

or Blu-ray Disc RW

 

 

drive, Media Card

 

 

Reader

 

 

one 3.5-inch bay for

 

 

FlexDock or FlexBay

Internally accessible

two 3.5-inch drive bay

 

 

SATA hard drive

Memory

 

 

 

 

Connectors

four internally-accessible DDR2

 

DIMM sockets

Capacities

512 MB, 1 GB, and 2 GB

Memory

800 MHz DDR2 DIMM

type

 

 

 

Specifications

Memory

 

 

 

Minimum

1 GB

Maximum

4 GB (32-bit operating system)

 

8 GB (64-bit operating system)

NOTE: For instructions on upgrading your memory, see the Service Manual on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.

Computer Information

System chipset

Intel G45 + ICH10R

Data bus width

64 bits

DRAM bus width

64 bits

Processor address

32 bits

bus width

 

RAID support

RAID 0 (striping)

 

RAID 1 (mirroring)

BIOS chip (NVRAM)

8 Mb

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Dell 540S setup guide Drives, Memory, Computer Information

540S specifications

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