Missing RAM on Radeon

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Bill Condie

I bought a cheap-o 256meg Radeon7000 to make Vista Basic visible on an old
P3 Optiplex, with 1 MB on the mobo.

It's showing 64 MB total Available Graphics Memory, under
DISPLAY SETTINGS>ADVANCED SETTINGS>ADAPTER.

I got a Vista driver for it, but Vista does not like the driver :-(

Where's the rest of my RAM?
 
Arghhhhhhhh . . I picked up the wrong box :-(

Thanks for pointing out my stupidity. Fifty bucks did seem low.

But it is PCI,


Richard G. Harper said:
Are you sure that's what you got? The Radeon 7000 is an AGP 2x/4x, 64mb
card.

http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon7000/radeon7000/index.html

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Bill Condie said:
I bought a cheap-o 256meg Radeon7000 to make Vista Basic visible on an old
P3 Optiplex, with 1 MB on the mobo.

It's showing 64 MB total Available Graphics Memory, under
DISPLAY SETTINGS>ADVANCED SETTINGS>ADAPTER.

I got a Vista driver for it, but Vista does not like the driver :-(

Where's the rest of my RAM?
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Also watch out for the Hypermemory cards. They have 64MB or 128MB of onboard
RAM, but uses system RAM as a backup. Not sure how that would work with
Vista recognizing the available RAM for Aero Glass.

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Dustin Harper
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Bill Condie said:
Arghhhhhhhh . . I picked up the wrong box :-(

Thanks for pointing out my stupidity. Fifty bucks did seem low.

But it is PCI,


Richard G. Harper said:
Are you sure that's what you got? The Radeon 7000 is an AGP 2x/4x, 64mb
card.

http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon7000/radeon7000/index.html

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
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Bill Condie said:
I bought a cheap-o 256meg Radeon7000 to make Vista Basic visible on an
old P3 Optiplex, with 1 MB on the mobo.

It's showing 64 MB total Available Graphics Memory, under
DISPLAY SETTINGS>ADVANCED SETTINGS>ADAPTER.

I got a Vista driver for it, but Vista does not like the driver :-(

Where's the rest of my RAM?
Click to expand...
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Fascinating!

This for others as ignorant as me:

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/8027

Dustin Harper said:
Also watch out for the Hypermemory cards. They have 64MB or 128MB of
onboard RAM, but uses system RAM as a backup. Not sure how that would work
with Vista recognizing the available RAM for Aero Glass.

--
Dustin Harper
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.vistarip.com

--
Bill Condie said:
Arghhhhhhhh . . I picked up the wrong box :-(

Thanks for pointing out my stupidity. Fifty bucks did seem low.

But it is PCI,


Richard G. Harper said:
Are you sure that's what you got? The Radeon 7000 is an AGP 2x/4x, 64mb
card.

http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon7000/radeon7000/index.html

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
* HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


I bought a cheap-o 256meg Radeon7000 to make Vista Basic visible on an
old P3 Optiplex, with 1 MB on the mobo.

It's showing 64 MB total Available Graphics Memory, under
DISPLAY SETTINGS>ADVANCED SETTINGS>ADAPTER.

I got a Vista driver for it, but Vista does not like the driver :-(

Where's the rest of my RAM?
Click to expand...
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I have two seats here running Vista, both with shared video RAM and both run
Aero without issue. Probably not the best configuration for gaming, but
that's not an issue for me.

Lang

Dustin Harper said:
Also watch out for the Hypermemory cards. They have 64MB or 128MB of
onboard RAM, but uses system RAM as a backup. Not sure how that would work
with Vista recognizing the available RAM for Aero Glass.

--
Dustin Harper
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.vistarip.com

--
Bill Condie said:
Arghhhhhhhh . . I picked up the wrong box :-(

Thanks for pointing out my stupidity. Fifty bucks did seem low.

But it is PCI,


Richard G. Harper said:
Are you sure that's what you got? The Radeon 7000 is an AGP 2x/4x, 64mb
card.

http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon7000/radeon7000/index.html

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
* HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


I bought a cheap-o 256meg Radeon7000 to make Vista Basic visible on an
old P3 Optiplex, with 1 MB on the mobo.

It's showing 64 MB total Available Graphics Memory, under
DISPLAY SETTINGS>ADVANCED SETTINGS>ADAPTER.

I got a Vista driver for it, but Vista does not like the driver :-(

Where's the rest of my RAM?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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