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Sounds like you got some bad RAM remove them blow the dust out with some compressed air and the put them back one at a time. Try each stick in both slots. Hope this helps.
Yes, up to 2 GB as written here: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15210/eng/D845GVSR_TechProdSpec.pdf The type of RAM that you want to choose is written here too.
Put the "old" RAM back into the computer, to see if the PC will work at all, or if you damaged the motherboard when you were changing the RAM, or if you accidentally disconnected some cables or jumper-blocks.
I would suggest defaulting the bios, either by way of the cmos jumper, or by entering the bios at boot, selecting "load defaults" from the menu at the bottom of the screen, save and exit. If setting the defaults does not fix the onboard IDE then you have a hardware failure. They make IDE adaptors that plug into a PCI slot, that could get you back into operation, but I'm afraid if the IDE has gone on the mobo, what's next? I would be afraid something else will fail. Maybe you'll get lucky with the defaults.
From the failures its probably a RAM memory problem , which means that you should try a different ram module that is working , or if possible try the ram module of this pc in another one thats working.
There is a full step-by-step guide to diagnosing this problem on the dell website (actually very helpful). You can find it here (titled Dell? OptiPlex? No Post, No Video for GX100 and GX110):
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/tree?c=us&l=en&s=gen&journalid=DFB8C72540D611DCACF8FBE14C494B1F&treeid=9F6F166431914C6B9722AA3209A42250&Query=dHJvdWJsZXNob290&SystemID=PLX_PNT_P03_GX110&ServiceTag=&contenttype=-1&os=-1&component=-1&lang=-1&doclang=en&toggle=true&dl=
the easiest thing to do is go to crucial.com and click scan my computer, and it will tell you which type of ram your motherboard takes
http://www.crucial.com/
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