Stolen ram,want it back.?
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This is completely normal for 'on board' graphics.
All is fine and good you have got what you paid for.
If you want more RAM you'll need to buy and install it.
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the no. 512 is standard commercial expression but you real ram is 448 MB so don't worry, no one stole your RAM
I think your big icons and increased screen size are like this because your low resolution. Right click on the desktop - >Properties -> Settings -> Set the resolution.
Please comment upon: "it has ati radeon xpress 200m video,which i will never use". How is that? You have to use your video card.
Your video card uses shared memory (if you take the memory from the video card, you will have more RAM available but your resolution will be low).
Best thing 2 do is to buy additional memory 4 your laptop (it doesn't cost so much).
Well this is pretty simple.. The onboard Radeon is always in use by the computer and the built in display. You really can't say you never use it, you use it every time you turn on your computer. It uses a shared memory technology and the less RAM you make available to it in the BIOS the lower the resolution and color depth you will have available to you when you restart, hence the big icons and lack of colors. You need to give it between 16MB and 32MB minimum to be able to run modern office and productivity applications. This type of Video memory sharing is a slower technology than having dedicated high speed video memory that is separate. Computers designed this way generally aren't that great for high end graphics processing such as gaming, video editing, animation creation and rendering, High Speed Simulations, etc. The only way to not have this problem is to get a notebook comptuer that has dedicated video memory for the onboard graphics card/chipset. These notebooks are usually more expensive and marketed towards high end users or gamers. Check the specifications before you buy.
if you calculate the amount of missing ram yo u will find that its 64MB does that make any sense to you ..? try to go to DXDIAG-display and it will show you the amount of video memory allocted ...
this is an advantadge to you if u want powerfull graphics .
if you want back this memory this is what u have to do ..
restart your pc and go to setup either by using F2 of DEL
when in setup you go to advanced chipsets ...navigate through the menus and you will find shared video memory ..change it to 32MB ...note that you cannot change your shared video memory to zero or else you want the poorest graphics display ..or your pc can refuse to work ...the minimum you can go is 8MB
hey good luck ..but i still think you need that video memory for efficient running of your laptop
think twice before you reduce that memory ..if you want more memory i might recomment buy another extra RAM ...that is if u have the money ..
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