| Post ID |
Timestamp |
Content |
User |
| 339019 |
2005-03-29 04:53:00 |
I have an IBM T40 Thinkpad laptop. M Centrino 1.6Ghz processor, 1gb ram, 80gb hd, 32mb radeon 9000 vid card. It runs great but I want to upgrade the video card and I know that on laptops, it is seldom possible. I dont know if this laptop has the option of upgrading the card or not. One guy at IBM said yes and one said no. Within the specs in the o/s, it doesn't state integrated and has a pci bus number as if it's a seperate card but I'm really not sure. If anyone knows if it can be done or not, great. I would like to upgrade it but if not, I would at least like to somehow dedicate some of my 1gb of ram to the card. I'm pretty sure this is possible. WinXP. How do I go about configuring it to do so? The card actually runs pretty good but I would like to make it a 128mb memory instead of the 32. Anyone know how I actually set this up? |
tester1354 (7736) |
| 339020 |
2005-03-29 05:04:00 |
If it's an integrated video card it's likely that it will "share" some of the main memory. If so, the amount which is shared will be set in the BIOS. |
Graham L (2) |
| 339021 |
2005-03-29 05:16:00 |
well, i just confirmed that the card is in fact integrated. in checking out the bios, there is no option to alter the amount of memory to be shared with the card.. this is not promising.. with that being said, is there any other way possible of alotting more memory to it via the windows registry or something like that? I can assume that I really don't have many options left at this point. upgrading the m/b would cost too much and it would be better to just get a new laptop and I dont really want to do that. |
tester1354 (7736) |
| 1 |
|