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November 17th, 2007 10:00

Memory for Dell Inspiron 1300

I have a dell inspiron 1300 which i have had for roughly a year. It has been running fine since i bought it, but a month or two ago i had to send off for a new hard drive because it had broke. Since then, i have not been able to play any games that require lots of graphics, which i could do before the hard drive was changed. I looked to see what the problem was, and saw that i only have 8MB of memory for graphics. Since i have 1GB of memory in the computer, I tried going into the BIOS to change how much of the memory was dedicated to grpahics, but couldnt do this because the BIOS on my laptop is different to others i have used before.
 
Is there any way that i can change the amount of memory i have for graphics, such as adding more memory, or changing how much memory is dedicated to grpahics. Any help would be much appreciated
  • ejn63

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    Posted November 17th, 2007 10:00

    At 1G, you have more than enough RAM for the maximum amount of video the system can handle. The 8M is a frame buffer, not video RAM, and it's not upgradeable. Neither is the amount of video RAM allocated user-adjustable.

    Did you reload WIndows, or did Dell?
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    Posted November 17th, 2007 11:00

    I reloaded windows using recommended settings and i didnt alter anything
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    Posted November 17th, 2007 13:00

    Did you install the drivers in proper order? Service pack 2 first, then the notebook system software, then the chipset driver, and finally all the other drivers?
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    Posted November 18th, 2007 21:00

    no i dont think i did. i'll try this tomorrow and see if it helps