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21st May 2009, 08:16
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recently upgraded my laptop from 2gb to 4gb of ram, the available ram before upgrading was 1.6gb this has now jumped to 2.7gb, i knew i wouldn't get the full 4gb as am running 32bit vista but got less than i expected. the total available video memory available before upgrading was 895mb and this has now jumped to a ridiculous 1394mb. is there any way i can re-allocate the video ram to the system ram as i would like this to be in the region of 3-3.5gb any help will be appreciated, thanks.
p.s the video card is a geforce 8200m |
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21st May 2009, 09:18
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either in your laptop bios, or by nvidia software. Almost always the bios though.
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21st May 2009, 09:20
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Yeah, you should be able to change the GPU RAM in the BIOS.
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21st May 2009, 10:17
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thanks for the replys, how much memory should i leave with the graphics, im sure the card has 256mb dedicated
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21st May 2009, 12:06
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cant see anything at all in the bios regarding changing ram allocation, any ideas? i have a presario cq60 and looked on every different screen accesable from the boot screen, also looked in the nvidia control pannel
 p.s. is there any other way to boost my available ram, 2.7gb from a possible 4gb aint so good even for 32bit vista 
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21st May 2009, 13:05
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about boosting the ram, simply put, no. 32bit O/S only supports up to roughly 2.5gb to 2.9gbm depending on the system. changing to 64bit is the only solution.
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21st May 2009, 14:22
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ah well i suspected that may have been the case, will the missing 1.3gb of ram be being used for any other processes behind the scenes perhaps or is it just simply wasted ram (and wasted money)?
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21st May 2009, 14:25
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The rest is not being used.
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