dv2000 only showing 32mb video?

Any ideas why my video adapter in the dv2000 (intel 945gm) is only showing 32mb? I have latest intel mobile drivers... I am running 1gb ram...THX

 

i know the problem. u updated your bios to f.23 right? degrade it to f.11 or f.12. because f.23 will mess up your video card and make it laggy and weak. f.23 is for vista based notebook

 

It's because the default amount of vram is only 32mb. I believe that you can change the amount of vram in the bios by pressing F2 when starting your laptop.

 

yes, I did upgrade to f.23..I'll go back to f12 and see if that fixes it...You'd think HP would fix that kind of error...thanks !

 

HP will not fix anything for anyone. they would not even fix the drivers for win vista sound. if hp will fix somthing, that would be a miracle. but thier laptop are nice and well built

 

Let me try to explain why this is:

Any video card that uses shared memory has 3 ways to control the amount of system RAM to use:
1) By a BIOS setting.
2) By the graphics driver
or
3) In Vista only, let the OS control it.

Nvidia, ATI/AMD, and Intel have all chosen (or been forced, I'm not sure which) to let Vista control this with their Vista drivers. Any system that used to use a BIOS setting to control the shared memory should get a BIOS update that switches the control back to the OS for Vista users. I would assume that this was the case with the dv2000t's that used Intel graphics (but I don't have one, so I'm not really sure), and now you're left with just the basic 32MB RAM under XP. An updated graphics driver should be either out now or out soon that controls the shared RAM on XP systems with the updated BIOS.

If you don't want to rollback the BIOS version, I would try the latest drivers posted by HP, and if that doesn't work, then the latest drivers directly from Intel, as they've likely already corrected this.

 

jaded , u just wasted all that time typing because the only way is to roll back. i had the same problem and i tried everything but nothing works unitll i found out that f.23 was the problem

 

I wouldn't call it a waste. I was trying to explain why HP may have "broke" a function -- and what the likely solution would be. It still should be, just maybe not yet.

 

If the f.12 bios for the dv2315us also? I can not find anything but f.23


I would love to have more than 32Mb of video memory in XP.



Where can I find the older bios?

 

kd5dmg -- you can grab the F.12 BIOS from here. It should work, but I can't make any promises. There were some hardware changes to the new models that shipped with Vista... and so they MAY just not work with the older BIOS.

 

Not sure on the BIOS verson on my dv2000t.

But this is what is shown under graphics info:

Operating System: Windows XP* Professional, Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 9.0
Physical Memory: 1526 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 128 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 10 MB

 

I have a problem. i've just roll back the f.31 to f.12. but in the start screen says.. something about a ERROR WITH THE WIRELESS ADAPTER and didn't boot up. Any idea???? I'm desperate