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    Nvidia Quadro NVS3100M memory problem

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by vince_wonk, Apr 21, 2010.

  1. vince_wonk

    vince_wonk Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does anyone knew how to set Quadro NVS3100 to use some of the RAM Memory? The NVS3100M comes with 224MB dedicated memory, my old T61 NVS140M can take 274MB from my 3GB RAM Memory and makes the NVS140M detected as a 512MB VRAM. I check the BIOS and no video settings. I use the latest video driver from laptop2go site. Sorry for my bad english, thank you.
     
    vince_wonk, Apr 21, 2010
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    Adamant Swiss Notebook Enthusiast

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    Unfortunately what you're asking is not possible on the 3100m. The card isn't set up to use the slower memory modules in your laptop. It's essentially stuck with whatever memory amount is on the controller itself.

    the 224 you're seeing might be the available free video memory, or it could be the video memory after certain processes have taken their seat. Another idea is that it could be the "formatted" amount of video memory available to the operating system. Personally, I'm not really sure. Every video card I've ever looked at has always had less video memory "available" than advertised.

    224mb isn't bad though. Honestly it's more than enough for the windows desktop environment and some CAD applications.
     
    Adamant Swiss, Apr 21, 2010
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