my computer has 768 mb of ddr2 ram it says 480 mb of ram can any one tell me what to do?

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and will it make my computer faster if i fix it

Answer 1

Cameron F; The first answerer to this question is correct, but I'd like to add some to it. Yes, you most likely have built in video processor (it's cheaper for the PC manufacturer to put a chip on the motherboard, than to buy a video card, and install that! so, not only does it slow down your video rendering, but it slows down your pc in two more crucial ways: first, it takes RAM away from your PCs actual operations, and isolates that ram for Video, second, even though the "chip" on the motherboard supposedly renders video for the CPU, they never do an adequate job, so it will also be taking CPU resources from the CPU and slowing up the PC even more!
My recommendations are as follows: First, if your PC came with some form of XP, leave it! Don't try to upgrade to Vista, "just becuase it's new", or "everyone has it" Vista requires minimum 1Gb memory, and that's just to run, not run adequately... Microsoft requires 1Gb RAM, but Recommends 2Gb!
Okay, secondly; If you're lucky, your mother board came with a slot for a video card, so even if it doesn't have one now, you can add one! Go to the manufacturers website, and click on "drivers & support" ( I say this, because all the websites for various manufacturers have this in common), it's going to have a place for you to put in a set of numbers (located on your pc somewhere (maybe close to the windows sticker) that identifies your specific PC), put this number in, and then find the Specifications for your machine (an alternative to this, is a feature most manufacturer websites have, to Insall a detection software, that'll tell the website what kind of computer you have (I've used Dell's and HP's websites for customers computers, and it's worked quite well!). Again, find the specifications for your coputer, and copy and paste them to a Microsoft notepad (NOT word, or wordpad) file; Notepad doesn't save the website formatting, and you don't need all that crap, just a little text file of the specifications.

Look at your expansion slots available; in video, hopefully you will have a AGP expansion slot (Accelerated Graphics Port) and you can buy an AGP video card, and that's what will not only free up the missing RAM, but will speed up your graphics as well!

The sort of card I'm talking about would cost anywhere from $50~$100, depending upon the card, and features... more Video RAM, more $$, more speed... get the picture?

If you have trouble with finding what kind of video card your PC needs, or even finding and saving that Systems Specifications sheet, please, feel free to send me an offline message on IM, or an email; My Y! ID is mac01843.

I hope this helps!
Marcos

Answer 2

You have a shared 256mb onboard video adapter. If you need more RAm you can go into the BIOS and reduse the allocated RAm from 256 to 128 or even 64 mb of shared RAM.
If you have $50 to spare buy a 1gb RAM module.

Answer 3

Try removing the memory,wipe the contacts with a dry rag such as an old t-shirt and reinstall it.
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Answer 4

You have a SHARED ramm video card. Get yourself a better vid card and add a stick of ramm.

Answer 5

Think your slot is broken, or your DDR2 stick is broken.

If you do fix it, it won't be a HUGE different but it will be different though. Programs won't lag as much.