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Old 17th September 2006, 8:36 AM   #1
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I recently bought a inspiron from dell, and its working perfectly until...

i checked the bios for video ram, and it said 128mb avaliable.

but, my problem is, it should be 256, as it says in the windows desktop -> properties -> display -> advanced tab =\

any help?
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Old 17th September 2006, 10:08 AM   #2
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I'm pretty sure it uses 128 of you're main memory aswell as 128mb of dedicated memory.
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Old 17th September 2006, 8:30 PM   #3
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ah ok, so when it says 256mb its misleading?
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ah ok, so when it says 256mb its misleading?
No, not at all.

In Simpler terms - It uses 128mb of it's own memory, and borrows 128mb of the laptops memory = 256mb of RAM in total.
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Old 17th September 2006, 10:09 PM   #5
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ah ok, so when it says 256mb its misleading?
Nowhere near as misleading as Intel's "224MB" GMA950 (no dedicated RAM, it just takes 224MB of system RAM).

It's not really that bad. The GPU does have access to 256MB of RAM in total, and I think Dell's page does actually say "shared with video card" next to the RAM options.
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Nowhere near as misleading as Intel's "224MB" GMA950 (no dedicated RAM, it just takes 224MB of system RAM).

It's not really that bad. The GPU does have access to 256MB of RAM in total, and I think Dell's page does actually say "shared with video card" next to the RAM options.
Yeh, it has access to that memory, tho doesn't really ever use it within Windows. I'd love the bios to let me just give it 32megs and then leave the rest to system, but alas - no go.
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