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    Asus M5200NP shared memory

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by alamin2, Jul 30, 2005.

  1. alamin2

    alamin2 Newbie

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    Hello to all,

    My first post and I'd like to know how do I change the default 8mb Shared Memory for my M5200NP . i cant find it in the bios . its kind of hard to do photo editing and some light gaming.

    Thanks
     
    alamin2, Jul 30, 2005
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  2. PROPortable

    PROPortable Company Representative

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    You can't. That's setup to only use a portion of your overall system RAM. It'll use 64mb if you have 768mb in the system. With the stock 256mb though, it should be using almost a 1/3 of that though. Where are you seeing this?
     
    PROPortable, Jul 30, 2005
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  3. Fergie

    Fergie Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey.
    i have the same laptop and a similar problem.
    i have 512mb RAM, but the video is only using 7mbs of this.
    i can see this in the 'INTEL(R) EXTREME GRAPHICS 2 FOR MOBILE REPORT'
    here it all is:
    Report Date: 03/08/2006
    Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 15:17:43
    Driver Version: 6.14.10.4497
    Operating System: Windows XP* Professional, Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)
    Default Language: English
    DirectX* Version: 9.0
    Physical Memory: 502 MB
    Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
    Maximum Graphics Memory: 64 MB
    Graphics Memory in Use: 7 MB
    Processor: x86 family 6 Model 13 Stepping 6
    Processor Speed: 600 MHZ
    Vendor ID: 8086
    Device ID: 3582
    Device Revision: 02


    is there no way to change it?
    also, i can't play dvd's on here (yea, i have a dvd drive btw) it comes up the:
    C00D116A: Cannot play DVD video
    error in media player.
    i have the nvidia dvd decoder as well.
    any ideas?
    cheers
     
    Fergie, Mar 7, 2006
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  4. PROPortable

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    update your graphics driver and let me know how it goes.
     
    PROPortable, Mar 7, 2006
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  5. Fergie

    Fergie Notebook Enthusiast

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    ll does the same thing, well not exactly the same thing, as sometimes i can now see the dvd menu, but as soon as i select on an option the error message comes up....

    any other ideas?
     
    Fergie, Mar 17, 2006
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  6. Underpantman

    Underpantman Notebook Virtuoso

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    try a different dvd player program (eg powerdvd, vlc), this way you can see if its software or hardware related. As for your gpu memory, your specs show the answer, it will take upto 64Mb...but only when it needs it. Thus if you could look at that while running a game then you would probably see the memory usage go upto 64.
    a
    :)
     
    Underpantman, Mar 17, 2006
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