Hey All First Post Here and a Real Problem!

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binj112

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Hey all,

I didnt know whether to put this in another forum but here it goes.

Recently I purchased a PCI graphics card off a mate. For your information it was a XFX Nvidia GeForceFX 5200 128MB. My motherboard has onboard graphics so I disabled this in the BIOS. After installing the card and the drivers it is working fine.

However, becasue the onboard graphics used up 32MB of RAM, I am still using up this RAM somewhere. I have disabled this card through the BIOS by going to Init Display Device and changing it to PCI from Onboard/AGP.

Surely that would have meant that I would have full use of my RAM.

If anybody could help it would be really great as at the mo I have 480MB of RAM and would love the full 512MB! as my games could run better!

Cheers

Ben :)
 
binj112 said:
I have disabled this card through the BIOS by going to Init Display Device and changing it to PCI from Onboard/AGP.
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What motherboard do you have?

Usually there a place to acturally put onboard video on disable in the bios. It does not sound like you did that. It sounds like you just changed the first place it looks for a video card to pci.
 
I think he's right, in my BIOS there is a way to disable on-board audio, i dont have on-board video, but i imagine it would work the same way.
 
I come form the UK so I have a Packard Bell Nova Motherboard. I dont know whether you have these in the USA but I could really use some help!

cheers

ben
 
go into you bios and there should be a place where it would say on video enable and then select it to diable.
 
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