VIDEO RAM

[jdublu]

I bought a new pc which has video embedded into the motherboard using 128MB of the system RAM. i have a video card in another pc that i removed and installed it in this pc and it works fine. but wouldn't doing that release the 128MB from the embedded video in the system RAM since there is now a video card,which has its own 128MB of RAM, and show that RAM in total system RAM which is 1024MB in the motherboard slots? When I go into System Properties it still shows 896MB which is 128MB less than the 1024 MB installed in the motherboard slots.How can I get the 128MB of video RAM to be shown in the total system RAM to 1024MB instead of 896MB?
Thanks,Jim

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Is there a jumper on the Motherboard that 'tells' the BIOS not to use the on-board video?





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[maxthedork]

There's usually a setting in BIOS where you can disable on-board peripherals such as video, audio, com ports, parallel, etc.

 

[WyldeCarde]

If you get stuck tell us who makes your bios and we should be able to help

 

[erikhertzel]

I have a system doing this. But, I wouldn't want to disable the on-board peripherals such as video, would I? How does one resolve this issue?

Erik

 

[Codeman0013]

if you are using a seperate video card in a pci slot or agp then you do not need on-board video it should be its own option and it can be turned off i did this with my system becuase my card was much better then on board and it freed up all of that memory that was being taken up by the onboard

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[erikhertzel]

Right, but if you have on-board video then do you just live with the RAM being allocated to it?

Thanks,

Erik

 

[maxthedork]

Erik,

Pretty much. Most BIOSes will allow you to specify how much RAM is being shared but the on-board video needs to use system RAM because motherboard manufacturers won't put VRAM on the mobo.

 

[Codeman0013]

erik it would probably be best to spend the money on a good video card and free up what little memory your pc has to offer because of you loose 128 to it each time u start the computer basically ou are loosing a lot of free space

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