graphics card memory & dell 505

hi, a friend of mine asked me to help him with his "new" dell latitude 505 notebook. windows xp reports that his graphics card uses only 7MB memory. he wants to increase it at least to 32MB (max is 64). i thought that in BIOS would be something like "graphics card memory" or "shared memory" but i was wrong (at least i didn't found anything which can change the amount of memory used by graphics card). can someone help me?

folken said: "Do you know for sure that it can be increased to 32 or 64?"

i think you should be able to change it. there is a "report" tab in graphics card properties dialog where is written sth like this: Min. memory: 1 MB, Max. memory 64 MB and Current memory: 7 MB. why would be there min and max if you can't change the amount of memory?

If you have 128MB RAM - Video Memory will (should*) be set to 32MB
If you have 256MB RAM - Video Memory will be set to 64MB

*According to Dell.

However, on an integrated graphics array such as that - upping the video memory will have almost zero effect on performance, so best to just let the system sort itself out.

Regards,
RaPTuRe

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?