Compal fl90 problem detecting video memory

Hello,

I have a Compal FL90 with a Geforce GT8600M with 512 MB of vram.
The GPU failed and only the main chip of the graphic card was substituted by a new one. As the vram is in the card, with the new chip I should have 512MB of vram again, but I am not sure if I verified that with the new chip.

The thing is that now I have updated the bios from v1.07 to v1.18 and everything works fine (with 8 GB of RAM) but the vram that the system detects is only 128 MB!!!!!!!!!!

Does any of you have an explanation for that? Could it be that the new GPU chip supports only 128 MB? Is there any chance that the new BIOS didn´t update properly and that is what limits the detected VRAM?

Thanks in advance.

 

I also had a similar issue when replacing MXM cards, not sure if it was the FL90 or not.

Check with GPU-Z what it says there. Do you have a degradation in performance, or is it just that the number is "wrong".

Cheers

 

It says 128 MB everywhere: GPU-Z, msinfo32, inside the BIOS....

Windows 7 now tells me that the user experience is lower because of the graphics, what proves that previously I had 512 MB.

The only game that I play is Civ V and it is still working, but I would like to fix the problem... Don´t know how...

Thanks.

 

Sorry, no idea. might really be the new chip, could be that it only supports/detects 128MB of video RAM.

But as long as you do not see any degradation (other then the useless, marketing driven Windows User Experience Index), be happy that your card is working again.

Have fun playing.

Cheers