Graphics memory

Hi there

My friend has a hp pavilion xt973. He has lots of trouble playing games on it. We've figured out that the problem is he has such little video memory. He has an Intel 82810 Graphics controller. The computer originally came with 128MB of RAM but he has upgraded to 512MB of RAM. Originally the computer allocated 8MB of RAM as Video memory. Is there any way we can change this setting. Thanks in advanced for all of you help.

 

There's usually a setting in the BIOS to let you increase it. Be aware that increasing the amount of video memory decreases the amount of memory available for system use.

According to this site "When the blue HP Logo screen appears, press the F1 key on the keyboard to enter the HP BIOS Setup menu."

 

I already checked the BIOS settings. I couldn't find anything. The closest I was a setting called video memory, but it was only set to 1MB (and could only be set to that or 512k.) So I don't think that was the right one since we know that it has 8MB. I do realize that It will be less memory for his computer to use, but he has 512MB and he should deffinently be using more than 8 of it for his video.

 

The only other likely location is a set of jumpers on the motherboard (you'd need to consult the user manual). If those don't exist either, then it is likely that the amount of shared video memory is fixed at 8MB.

 

if you can't find the pins, then look on the motherboard and see if you can find a model number for it (should be somewhere along the pci slots). From my experiences with HP's from that era, they use rebranded Asus motherboards. If you google the model number of the board, you should get a match as to which real deal motherboard hp used, then you can reference the instruction manual for that.

 

I used everest home edition and figured out he has a ASUS CUW-AM/MEW-AM motherboard. It's using the intel i810 chipset. I went to ASUS's website but I couldn't find any information on the motherboard. Can you help me with that.

 

Upon looking further into ASUS webstite I think I might have found the motherboard. Heres the deal though. It says that it has a 4MB cache of SDRAM. But this is in confilct with something else we found. He tried to run battlefield 1942. When it didn't work we did EA's little trouble shooting thing and it said he had 8 MB of video memory. What is going on?

 

from the quicky research, it looks like the motherboard may have been a super custom job from asus, custom enough that there probably isn't a real deal counterpart to it. I recommend you either replace the motherboard with a better one (so you can have better graphics and an agp slot) or if you're not in the market for spending much money, you may be able to find a pci graphics card worth putting in to increase graphics performance. those can come really cheap if you look hard enough.

 

same thing here with me i have the same thing exept i got a new graphics card but the game is realy laggy i think it is cuz i onley got 800mhs

 

strogg what kind of mother board should he get??? and new cpu. i have tecnacly the same prob so i need to no