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    Acer 5315 Graphics Card Question

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by zenlok, Aug 7, 2008.

  1. zenlok

    zenlok Newbie

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    Afternoon All,

    I have recently got an Acer Aspire 5315 laptop with a Celeron 2Ghz processor with 1Gb DDR2 RAM.

    The laptop says that the graphics card is a Mobile Intel Graphic Media Accelerator X3100 with up to 252Mb of memory.

    I have checked in the bios and it says that it only has 8mb of memory and no way of changing it :-(

    Is there anyway that I can increase the memory on my graphics card?

    Any help would be much appriciated.

    Cheers,

    ZeNLoK
     
    zenlok, Aug 7, 2008
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    It only needs 8MB most of the time. The driver automatically increases the amount of RAM used only when needed.

    It will take up to the stated amount, if needed.
     
    Greg, Aug 7, 2008
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  3. zenlok

    zenlok Newbie

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    Thank you for your reply :)

    Is there anyway to get Windows Aero running as I have upgraded to Home Premium.
     
    zenlok, Aug 7, 2008
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