2006-07-16 03:15:35 · 6 answers · asked by Haider 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
You most likely have a video card that is imbedded in the mother board. It's using some of the RAM available. There are several ways to work with this. You can intall your own , after -market video card, which is usually better than the imbedded one, and then take all the RAM borrowed by the imbedded one and give it back to system RAM.
Or you can install more RAM into the computer. That's always a wise idea. Max it out! Then you can leave the video as it, or allocate all the RAM it can use to video. This last is what I'd do if you don't want to buy another video card or have no expansion slots for one.
You can also do both above- install more RAM and install a better video card. If you don't have a spare slot for a video card though, plan B is best.
So how to? Reboot the pooter and hit del or whatever (F10? usually DEL) key until you get into the BIOS. Then you have to fine where it allows you to change the size of RAM allocated to video. On this laptop I'm using, it's under Advanced and is called "UMA Frame buffer size" - heh- yeah that really sounds like video doesn't it? Anyway, use the arrow keys to select stuff, read the instructions in front of you slowly and carefully, and choose YES when it asks you if you'd like to save the changes on exit. You'll get it.
2006-07-16 04:58:24 · answer #1 · answered by Thom Thumb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds to me like u have a um whats the word, set limit in the bios system for it, be careful if u go lookin gin there though make sure if u change something u write it down first just in case.... either that or u got some issues with either the OS or video card or something or other taken up the virtual memory
2006-07-16 03:18:50 · answer #2 · answered by meowbaby7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol don't worry, it's not problem.... computer shows like that mine also same problem but mine shows 200 Mb ram, Strange! But it actually is 256 mb ram it won't have any effect because Computer knows it's 256 but Output is incorrect, i didn't found any particular reason, for why it's showing that problem
2006-07-16 03:27:39 · answer #3 · answered by Umax 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you restart your cystem go in BIOS mode and go to settings, and see if your RAM is shared (for example with your video card)
2006-07-16 03:19:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get new memory, you have a bad cluster in your ram. if that doesn't workmay need to reset BIOS.
2006-07-16 03:20:11 · answer #5 · answered by dan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you have onboard video card, it uses system ram, but i would have no idea why it would use that much
2006-07-16 03:18:19 · answer #6 · answered by rockon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋