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I had used the integrated graphics (AMD 760G) of my Asrock motherboard
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/960GC-GS%20FX/
for a while.
Two weeks ago I bought a Nvidia PCI-E Graphicscard so that I don´t need the integrated graphics any more. The new card runs fine for most games and is considerably faster than the integrated GPU.

The problem is that the integrated GPU reserves part of the RAM as "shared memory". While I used it I had set that to use 512 MB of the RAM.

Now with the new dedicated graphics card I don´t want the integrated GPU to reserve any RAM.
I can change the amount of RAM that is reseverd (settings range from AUTO, 32 MB in steps to 512 MB). First I changed that setting from 512 MB to AUTO - but the BIOS then reserves 256 MB for shared memory. So the least amount of RAM reserved seems to be to set it to 32 MB.

Is there no way to completely disable that feature so that no RAM at all is reseverd for shared memory by the no longer used integrated graphics?
 
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I think about all you can do is set the shared memory in the bios to its lowest [I'd just leave it at default amount] .. even your card will ''share as well so its just one of them things

if you look at your card in gpuz you can see it will have dedicated and dynamic memory use

like said from here

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/dedicated-vs-dynamic-memory.195983/

in the end you just switch the bios to card use as you did and let her fly all should run fine and as normal

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/378612-33-prevent-dedicated-graphics-card-sharing-system-memory
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The setting under Advanced/Chipset settings under
"primary graphics adapter" is already set to PCI Express
 
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I think about all you can do is set the shared memory in the bios to its lowest [I'd just leave it at default amount] .. even your card will ''share as well so its just one of them things

if you look at your card in gpuz you can see it will have dedicated and dynamic memory use

like said from here

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/dedicated-vs-dynamic-memory.195983/

in the end you just switch the bios to card use as you did and let her fly all should run fine and as normal

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/378612-33-prevent-dedicated-graphics-card-sharing-system-memory
 
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Something strange: When I set "primary graphics adapter" to PCI-Express and "Shared Memory" to AUTO, then the BIOS displays that it reserves 256 MB of RAM for shared memory.

But when I set primarcy graphics adapter to PCI and Shared memory to auto then the message that the BIOS reserves RAM for shared memory is gone.
 
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That is strange, doesn't make sense, however if it works, then there you go!
 
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''But when I set primarcy graphics adapter to PCI and Shared memory to auto then the message that the BIOS reserves RAM for shared memory is gone.'

gone from the onboard use when you go back to onboard graphics its back

looking at your manual it seems you got 2 choices no card its a set shared memory [ not adjustable] when the onboard is used .
with a card its not needed and not showing cause its not in use ??

[page 33 ]

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/547782/Asrock-960gc-Gs-Fx.html?page=33#manual

so with that I'd say with a card its disabled with onboard its enabled and a default of 120mb

 
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