Increasing dedicated system memory for Radeon 5830 in Envy 15?

Is there a way to increase the dedicated system memory for the Mobility Radeon 5830? In DXDiag it shows that my Approx. Total Memory is 749mb. In CPU-Z it says 1024mb. I have 8gb of system memory and want to increase the total memory my system shares with the video card. Is that possible? Also on another note im looking to upgrade my HDD. Currently I have the base 500gb 7200RPM HDD. If I were to get a 40gb SSD what other HDD could I get to use for other programs, games, storage, etc?

 

Pretty sure it's not possible with the Envy. Any which way, your system memory is probably much slower than your graphics ram.

 

No, you cannot increase the dedicated system memory, nor do you want to.
I would suggest you update your copy of DirectX. I have the 4830, which has 1GB of dedicated memory as does your 5830. My version of DXDiag is showing 3826MB of approx. total memory. Which would suggest you either have a problem with your DirectX or you've got a problem with your DDR3 memory sticks. Might be worth re-seating them (I'm making the assumption you upgraded your system memory)
Of course it could be you've reinstalled windows and used the 32bit version which would also give this sort of result.

 

Hmm well I actually did not upgrade my memory. I'm using 64-bit Windows 7 Pro. I'll try and update my copy of DirectX.

 

Here's the DxDiag for my system. I supposedly have the newest drivers.

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System Information
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Time of this report: 5/24/2011, 11:59:09
Machine name: ALI-ENVY
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110408-1631)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP ENVY 15 Notebook PC
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 820 @ 1.73GHz (8 CPUs), ~1.7GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8182MB RAM
Page File: 3474MB used, 12889MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 64bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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Card name: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: ATI display adapter (0x68A1)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68A1&SUBSYS_1522103C&REV_00
Display Memory: 749 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1010 MB
Shared Memory: 3835 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: unknown
Monitor Id: LGD0265
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (59.934Hz)
Output Type: Internal
Driver Name: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver File Version: 8.17.0010.1077 (English)
Driver Version: 8.850.6.0
DDI Version: 11
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 5/15/2011 22:15:46, 795648 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: No
WHQL Date Stamp: None
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-2BE1-11CF-B977-2835BEC2C535}
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Device ID: 0x68A1
SubSys ID: 0x1522103C
Revision ID: 0x0000
Driver Strong Name: oem34.inf:ATI.Mfg.NTamd64.6.1:ati2mtag_Manhattan:8.850.6.0 ci\ven_1002&dev_68a1
Rank Of Driver: 00E62001
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C
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D3D9 Overlay: Not Supported
DXVA-HD: Not Supported
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled

 

I don't see anything wrong with it.

It says you ahve a gig of dedicated graphics memory (on the card), and 3.8 gigs of shared system memory.

That comes to a total of 4.8GB of graphics memory.

Not sure why that display memory is reporting 750MB.