Two of the same graphic cards on one laptop

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Hello, I am using a laptop, Compaq Presario CQ56 Win-7 64bit. My graphic card is a Mobile Intel(r) 4 Series Express Chipset Family and I am having a bit of a problem with it, let me setup what happened before this. When my hard drive died (Had already backed everything up) I had no idea what happened at the time so i decided to call my friend. He said that I needed to replace my hard drive with another one. I was lucky, he said he had a Compaq with a broken screen so he never uses it anymore but it was CQ57, guessing this was a better model than mine. What he did was he replaced my old hard drive with his and sure enough it worked. He erased all his personal files so that I can use it. Now being a gamer myself I decided to run a game, but it immediately crashes, same with the other games I tried to run. Knowing more about computers today I checked the device manager if their was any problem, and my graphic card had a yellow sign. Code 12: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. It said I had to disable another device to use that one but I had no idea what it was saying considering that this was the only thing showing up on the display adapter. I decided to use GPU-Z to see if their was anything missing, and then I get this.

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I apoligize for the poor image it is a long story...

Is this suppose to mean anything or nothing at all, what is this, why are their two of the same graphic cards their? I'm in need of help, and since this is really gaming problem please take all the time you need and ask me for any further information about my laptop or anymore exact details of how this happened.
 
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There aren't two graphics cards in there. In fact there aren't any is my bet. I'd say you have 'integrated' graphics - your cpu is part graphics chip.

For it to work, you need to allocate some ram to it. It's obviously working. But if you're running out of memory, maybe you've allocated too much ram to it. You can adjust this in bios.
There aren't two graphics cards in there. In fact there aren't any is my bet. I'd say you have 'integrated' graphics - your cpu is part graphics chip.

For it to work, you need to allocate some ram to it. It's obviously working. But if you're running out of memory, maybe you've allocated too much ram to it. You can adjust this in bios.
 
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I'm sorry I don't know much about this. Where are the bios and how to adjust this?