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reinerotto

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April 6th, 2007 08:00

Inspiron 6400 Bios / Hypermemory limit

Actually, I have not found any solution to switch off/limit the size of main memory, my ATI Mobility X1300 grabs to be used as Hypermemory: 256MB. Because Vista is memory hungry, I want to limit the amount of memory reserved for Hypermemory. On all other PCs I had, there was a possibility in the BIOS to limit the amount of shared memory, for Intel Integrated graphics usually.
Why is this not possible with my DELL Inspiron ?
 
Or is this only a special trick to sell more expensive main memory for Vista machines ?

pcgeek11

1.9K Posts

April 7th, 2007 07:00

" Or is this only a special trick to sell more expensive main memory for Vista machines ? "
 
Why is everybody so darned paranoid... They are out to get me, OOOOOOOOOOOOH! Yeah it is just a special Trick... gotcha!
 
How much Ram do you have ? If you have 2 GB you should be fine.
 
Did you look at the " Advanced " section of the ATI Catylist Control center under UMA Frame Buffer Settings?
 
pcgeek11


Message Edited by pcgeek11 on 04-07-2007 03:34 AM

reinerotto

36 Posts

April 7th, 2007 18:00

Sorry, I only have 1GB memory on my machine.
I can not find the setting you are talking about in Catalyst Control centre. I have version 2007.0202.1923.34565, which is the latest one from DELL.
Which one do you have ?

pcgeek11

1.9K Posts

April 9th, 2007 00:00

Start the CC in the advanced mode, under the Graphics Tab>> Integrated Graphics>> UMA Frame Buffer on the right side there will be a setting " Size Of UMA Frame Buffer "  with a drop down selection: Options are 16, 32, 64, 128. or 256 MB Ram. Mine is currently set to 128 MB.
 
I am running version 1.2.2460.36742.
 
pcgeek11

reinerotto

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April 9th, 2007 09:00

Sorry again, I do not have the settings you mention.
However, I am wondering about your driver version. It looks like an (old ?) version for Windows XP, not for Vista.
The actual Vista (32 bit) version I installed now from ATI shows me the following info:
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Driver Packaging Version 8.342-070202a1-042861C-ATI 
Catalyst® Version 07.2 
Provider ATI Technologies Inc. 
2D Driver Version 7.01.01.598 
2D Driver File Path \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000 
Direct3D Version 7.14.10.0471 
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.0681 
Catalyst® Control Center Version 2007.0202.1923.34565 
 
Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by ATI 
Graphics Chipset ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 
Device ID 7149 
Vendor 1002 
  
Subsystem ID 2003 
Subsystem Vendor ID 1028 
  
Bus Type PCI Express 
Current Bus Setting PCI Express 
  
BIOS Version 009.012.001.009 
BIOS Part Number BK-ATI VER009.012.001.009.020855 
BIOS Date 2006/06/26 
  
Memory Size 319 MB 
Memory Type HyperMemory 
  
Core Clock in MHz 398 MHz 
Memory Clock in MHz 342 MHz 
  
Primary Display Yes 
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I can not download Catalyst for Windows XP from ATI, because they first check the HW platform, and then they complain, that their Catalyst is not supported, I should contact my HP manufacturer instead. Which is DELL.
And their XP driver shows 128MB Hypermemory, but in XP (I have dual-boot Vista/XP). And there also is NO possibility to change the amount of Hypermemory used. But 128MB is OK for me on XP; would be OK for me on Vista, too.
 
So are you running Catalyst for XP on Vista successfully ?
 
I am still hesitating to try that, because "Restore Points" do not work for me because of "Dual Boot".
 
BTW: The 319MB Hypermem should consist out of 64MB dedicated memory + 256MB system memory.
 
Thanx in advance for your patience.
 
 
 

Eric_jin

13 Posts

April 11th, 2007 06:00

the Hypermemory is distributed dynamicly, there is no need to modify default  setting.

reinerotto

36 Posts

April 11th, 2007 12:00

Thanx for your posting. I had the same idea, or better hope. But I doubt it, because:
- Task manager in Vista shows me: 1021 MB Physical Memory, In Cache: 679 MB, Free: 19MB. The difference more or less perfectly fits for Hypermory, which is 319Mb according to Catalyst Control Centre.
And this difference (or the 319 MB in Catalyst) never change. Why does it need so much ? I disabled all "pretty" display features already, and for my display (1280x800x32 bit colors) 64MB would suffice.
 
Catalyst in XP (I have Dual-Boot with Vista) always shows 128MB instead.
 
To be noted, Cataly for Vista and for XP are not the same version.
 
 

reinerotto

36 Posts

April 11th, 2007 20:00

One more reason to put your response in doubt: Using Device Manager-Resources, is shows large amounts of memory in use. For what ?

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