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    GeForce go 7400 Turbocache issue/question

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by AdamL, Mar 29, 2006.

  1. AdamL

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    Recently purchased a HP dv8000t notebook that came with a GeForce 7400 Go. Originally oredered a 128 meg version of the graphics card, but came shipped to us as a 256meg. I thought great, and when i booted it up instead of 256meg it said 512 megs. (in the windows and nvidia drivers)

    I am assuming this is because of the Turbocache taking up 256 megs (OS is running at around 290-320 without anything running).

    256megs imo is fine enough for most any game, is there anyway to turn this feature off as the laptop only has 1 gig of memory?


    With the current Nvidia drivers i can't find a way to access this option.
     
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    USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer

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    It might be in your bios. When you boot the computer you should be able to hit F2 to enter the bios and change the amount of RAM allocated to the card.
     
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    No go on the bios, couldn't see an option to change anything related to the grahpics card.
     
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    Check out this link:

    http://www.nvidia.com/page/go_7300_faq.html

    Quote from article:

    Q: How much memory will the new GPU support?
    GeForce Go 7300 GPUs can support up to 256 MB of graphics memory.

    It also says it does it dynamicly. Did you try to get different drivers?
     
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    I saw that as well, but dynamically can mean two things.

    1)Dyanmically allocate based off how much memory you have (which it does from the charts i've seen)

    2)Or dyamically based on how much memory you have free.


    I'm hoping #2, but assuming #1.

    Thanks for your help so far in this issue!
     
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    I believe you are assuming correct from what I have seen. It should be #1. But due to the FAQ the 512MB might be a driver issue. Get new drivers, like X-treme-G or from Laptopvideo2go.com. See if that helps you.
     
    USAFdude02, Mar 29, 2006
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