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    Thinkpad T61 Quadro 140m Memory upgrade

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Gary_hide, Dec 22, 2007.

  1. Gary_hide

    Gary_hide Notebook Enthusiast

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    Merry Christmas everyone,
    I just ordered a thinkpad T61 on Lenovo Canadian web site yesterday. Going to run Linux on it.
    I chose the one with quadro 140m w/ 128mb vram.
    I remember I saw some articles on some other forums talked about upgrade the vram to 256/512 on thinkpads, couldn't find them right now.
    So my question: is the vram on T61 upgradable? If it is, how? Any guide or tutorial around?
     
    Gary_hide, Dec 22, 2007
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    kaede Notebook Consultant

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    128 MB its a dedicated memory. But there's a capability to share it with ram(turbocache).
     
    kaede, Dec 22, 2007
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    Hawkeye05 Notebook Consultant

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    I believe its all automated based on need, ive see it read as 128 and all the way up to 512
     
    Hawkeye05, Dec 22, 2007
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    Gary_hide Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, I kind of understand what you are saying, so you mean it has 128 dedicated ram and can share the system ram up to 512 base on the application's need? Is there way to set it always use 512 shared ram?
    Sorry never had a turbocache card before.
     
    Gary_hide, Dec 22, 2007
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    Hawkeye05 Notebook Consultant

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    I wish i knew, I would like it to be more liberal when it comes to allocating ram i'd always take video performance over RAM.
     
    Hawkeye05, Dec 23, 2007
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    klhguy Notebook Guru

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    My T61p says the memory can be up to 512mb.
    However I dont know either how to set 512mb..
     
    klhguy, Dec 23, 2007
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    does anyone know how to do it, it isnt in the bios
     
    Hawkeye05, Dec 23, 2007
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