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5. September 2007 @ 19:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a Toshiba Satellite A135 with 1406 Mb of Ram(ddr2). It has a 1.60 processor and is fairly new, like 2 months. I have a ATI Radeon Xpress 200 m series im pretty sure(looked inder adapter type in control panel). Im fairly new to all this, can i upgrade this video card? I don't think i can, but i don't know. Second, if i cant how do i set the video card ram up a little so i get better gaming performance? Any help or other tips is greatly appreciated.

-crazy noobie at computer graphics stuff

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5. September 2007 @ 19:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You can't upgrade the video card. Also I believe that you can't upp the amount of RAM available to the chip.
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6. September 2007 @ 15:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Dang, well thanks for the help neways.

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6. September 2007 @ 17:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If there is a way to up the RAM for the video card it will be in the BIOS, when you turn on the computer press what ever button it tells you to "enter the bios", "run setup" or what ever other name they gave it.

Also it looks like you have 1 1GB and 1 512MB sticks of RAM, if you upgrade to 2 x 1GB your computer might run a little better, as you have a shared graphics card.

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6. September 2007 @ 17:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There is no way to increase it though. It is at a certain maximum amount. If you go into the BIOS you CAN decrease the VRAM.
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6. September 2007 @ 17:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks, will try to get out and buy another gig of ram. Will try to get bios open too. Thanks mucho

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6. September 2007 @ 17:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ManUowns:
Thanks, will try to get out and buy another gig of ram. Thanks mucho

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6. September 2007 @ 18:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Just so you know another gig of RAM wont help out your graphics card. There is a limit to you VRAM you can't increase it more than than.

The RAM is because your graphics chip shares RAM so you can't use all of your 1.5 gigs.
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8. September 2007 @ 11:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
O ok. Well I can just make do, because it plays most games fine. thks neways

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