E1505 video card memory

Hello ppl,

form 3 weeks I'm the happy owner at E1505 with:
1 Gb ram
120 gm hdd
ATI X1300 128 Mb
WXGA+
etc

I buy a ATI X1300 with 128 mb video card but sistem information show me a ATI X1300 with 256 Mb memory.
What's happening? can I adjust manualy the amount of system ram allocated to video card? (to be 128 not 256).
I read a lot of papers from Dell site and in all of those is: 64 mb dedicated video memory and another 64 mb is taked from system memory.
Is something wrong with my video card?

tnx a lot

 

I believe it has 64mb of dedicated memory and will use up to 192mb of system memory.

 

yep danimal is right

 

the card has 128 onboard memory and 128mb of "hypermemory" which means it's taken from RAM. The system will show the card use 256mb memory.

 

Not correct. You are probably thinking of the x1400.

 

no actually with the neew drivers it still has 64 on board video ram just can use up to 256 the rest being on board ram

 

I have the card, its 64 dedicated,192 shared

 

you are correct

 

Hello,

In my system information (on ATI Catalyst Control Center) is verry clear: ATI Radeon Mobility X1300 with 256 Mb video ram
In BIOS is: 64 Mb video ram, ATI,,,,, X1300.

WTF?

 

Hello again.
But the amount the system memory allocated to video card can be adjusted? To have finally only 128 total video memory?

tnx

 

Yes. Look in the BIOS for settings.

 

NO

the x1300 only has 64 dedicated vram, the 192 ram is SHARED system ram

meaning that 192 of that ram is taken from the sodimm rams

the x1300 has 64mb video ram, which is dedicated and on the video card, you cannot increase that.

you can CHANGE the amount of memory you have allocated for your video card by going to BIOS so that you have 64mb dedicated video ram and 64 or 192(maybe 128?) mb of system ram allocated to the video card via hypermemory

 

ok, where in the bios can you do this?, I have an e1505, with an x1300, and I cant find any such options in my bios, and I have looked pretty extensively, its displayed under system devices, but its display only, no fields are user adjustable

 

You dont have too bc until it NEEDS the extra ram it will not use it, so in reality best thing to keep it as it. one good thing about hyper memory

 

Tnx for this answer,

Yes in BIOS from E1505 is 64 Mb mem dedicated to video ram.
But my question is: how can adujst the amount of rest of video memory (64 or 192) "stollen" from the system memory?
I dont find any option in my laptop BIOS. Maybe is another program? or another driver who can do this?

tnx

 

And another thing: my video card can be upgraded? it is "sticky" on mainboard? I read a lot of pages but I'm still confused about that (many peoples say: can be upgraded, may peoples say no: you can't upgrade). What is the truth?
I saw a dell e-paper who described how can change the video card at home... maybe is not for my inspiron E1505

tnx...

 

if you start out with a dedicated card, you can change it to any dell branded card available for that model, ie you get your e1505 with an x1300, you can change it to the x1400 or gf7300, if you get your e1505 with onboard graphics, your stuck with that unless you do a complete motherboard swap, and as far as I know you cant adjust the hypermem on dell laptops, I've looked all over the bios and ccc, and found nothing

 

Can anyone verify this. Also is there anywhere that I can order these video boards?

 

192MB is allocated as needed, if oyu are not running games, it won't allocate any of that.

 

search the boards, there are hundreds of posts on the subject, you can call dell spare parts, ebay, and there are a few online vendors, such as this one
http://impactcomputers.com/dellpart...6400-parts-internal-parts-and-assemblies.html


http://impactcomputers.com/wf148.html