- Feb 11, 2012
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Hi all,
I recently bought a new video card (ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3450, 512MB dedicated memory) for my laptop, cause the one I had before stopped working. the pc won't even boot up.
The card works great, I installed the drivers from the AMD website. My laptop has 2gb of ram memory, but as I was installing adobe reader and surfing the web with google chrome i noticed it was too slow to be a freshly installed windows 7 ultimate 32bit version. I checked in the system properties and found out windows only saw 1 gig of memory!!!
So I rebooted and entered the bios setup. I found out the that missing gigabyte was dedicated to something called Extended Memory. But i couldn't change the value of the amount of memory reserved for it. So now I'm stuck.
Is there a way to modify or, even better, disable it? is extended memory reserved for shared video memory? all this happened after replacing the video card. I had all the 2 gb available before.
thanks to all.
I recently bought a new video card (ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3450, 512MB dedicated memory) for my laptop, cause the one I had before stopped working. the pc won't even boot up.
The card works great, I installed the drivers from the AMD website. My laptop has 2gb of ram memory, but as I was installing adobe reader and surfing the web with google chrome i noticed it was too slow to be a freshly installed windows 7 ultimate 32bit version. I checked in the system properties and found out windows only saw 1 gig of memory!!!
So I rebooted and entered the bios setup. I found out the that missing gigabyte was dedicated to something called Extended Memory. But i couldn't change the value of the amount of memory reserved for it. So now I'm stuck.
Is there a way to modify or, even better, disable it? is extended memory reserved for shared video memory? all this happened after replacing the video card. I had all the 2 gb available before.
thanks to all.
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