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    Asus Video Cards.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Darth Bane, Jul 17, 2009.

  1. Darth Bane

    Darth Bane Dark Lord of the Sith

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    Does the bios of Asus video cards prevent it from being used in other notebooks? (ignoring the fact that they don't use the typical screw-layout and are installed upside down compared to most laptop video cards)
     
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    I think on many ASUS laptops, the GPUs use a VBIOS that is integrated in the system BIOS.

    In general, due to layout differences as well, I really don't know how much success you would have in trying to use them on other laptops... but I'm betting that not much.
     
    E.B.E., Jul 19, 2009
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    dogin Notebook Enthusiast

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    That is very intersting. So if you replace windows Vista with win 7 and reformat the drive and go to one partion, the vid card allocate ram should still be there because of the bios????? I do not want to use the complete Asus install disc etc.

    Asus N70sv x1 with 130m vid card. ps I cannot find the specific programs in the asus install disc for the mobo drivers etc. A clean intall on windows seven will wipe them out. Do you know where on the asus install disc These can be found along with the separate utilites?
     
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  4. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    I was answering the question of the previous poster. Notice I was talking about VBIOS and BIOS, not VRAM and RAM.

    I have no idea whether:

    a) current dedicated GPUs still take memory from the system memory
    b) if yes, whether the algorithm to allocated system memory to the GPU is in the BIOS or in the OS/drivers. In the first case it would be persistent across multiple OS-es, in the second case it would depend on the OS and driver.

    The mobo drivers are usually called "InfUpdate", yeah, not the clearest name. If you can't find them on the disk you can download them from the chipset manufacturer website (usually Intel).
     
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    dogin, Jul 19, 2009
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