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    Can I set the shared vdeo ram to 128mb (from 64)?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by awdrifter, Jan 2, 2005.

  1. awdrifter

    awdrifter Notebook Enthusiast

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    I want to buy the A65-S1068 and then add 512mb of ram to it. (so I will have 765mb of ram) I found some cheap notebook 512mb ram at Fry's. Now after I added the ram can I let the video card share more ram? The default is 64mb, can I set it to 128mb? Is this possible? Thanks.

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    Not really. Well it depends what type of integrated video card it is example (ATI radeon 7500, 9000, etc.) some integrated cards only allow for a maximum of 64MB VRAM. What is the graphics chip? And if it is an Intel Extreme graphics; there is no way for that because like I said before the graphic controller it's self only allows for 64MB VRAM.

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  3. awdrifter

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    The graphics card is ATi Mobility Radeon 7000.

    ATI MOBILITY?RADEON?7000 IGP
    http://www.ati.com/products/mobilityradeon7000igp/features.html

    Memory Interface
    * Unified Memory Architecture (UMA)
    * 64-bit system DDR SDRAM memory interface
    * Synchronous and asynchronous memory to processor bus clock ratios
    * DDR333 SDRAM support provides up to 2.7 GB/second bandwidth
    * Up to 4 GB DRAM support with two unbuffered SO-DIMMs
    * 64 Mbit to 1 Gbit memory device densities
    * 16 MB to 128 MB of main memory configurable as display memory
    * Optimal memory power management via 4 DDR SDRAM clock enable signals

    So the graphics card itself should allow for up to 128mb of ram, but I've heard that Toshiba locked the bios so I can't change the shared ram. Is there any mods to the bios that I can do to change that? Is there anyway to change it other than going into the bios, like a third party program? Thanks for the reply.

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    I don't think there's any "tweaked" bioses available. I wouldn't want to run a BIOS that wasn't modified by the manufacturer, could cause problems for your system. Try checking with Toshiba and see if they have a "patch" for this issue.

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    Venombite, Jan 4, 2005
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