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kyyubidx
March 17th, 2007, 16:21
hey there!

i recently bought a notebook with the following specs:

AMD Turion 64 Mobile 2000 Mhz
512 RAM DDR2
ATi Radeon Xpress 1100 (200G Series)
80Gb HardDrive
Ect...

My question is: of the 512 RAM, 128 are being used by the graphic card so basically i am only able to use 384 (or so..) of RAM memory, bieng that the graphics card is "256" MB... how can i put it back to a 128 MB graphics card and use all the RAM as RAM? by this i mean 512 RAM instead of 384...

Cloudhunter
March 17th, 2007, 23:48
Well, look in the bios. If the setting isn't there, you can't change it.

Cloudy

Tomlo
March 18th, 2007, 06:35
Ya look into the bios, normally it should say like press F2 for spsetup and in there you should be able to lower your shared memory but from what I can say is that you definately need more RAM I personally recomend 1gig for windows XP and atleast 2gig for vista and with a decent speed (ddr2 800 for example) also...

kyyubidx
March 22nd, 2007, 21:55
thank u guys xD i was already thinking about putting more RAM ;)

btw my prob is solved... although not entirely... i don't have 512RAM bu 491MB

lmao...

semicolo
March 25th, 2007, 11:54
21 MiB for video ? weird...