How can I unshare a video card's memory?

**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...