My only thought on this is to ask if you have looked in bios setup to see if you can allocate more there? That can be done with desktops so you may look and see if that is an option.
I had the same problem. I think there is a flaw in the software, but even though in the drop down list it shows 16mb and so on, it's actually 256 mb. Your only choices is 128 mb and 256 mb only regardless what's in the drop down list. As far as I know the only way to return it to 128 mb is go into the Bios enter the Exit menu and select Setup Defaults. Before you do that if that's what you want to do. It currently states 16 mb to confirm that it's actually 256 mb, right click My Computer Icon
click properties read what it states as ram, add 256 mb your video ram, and that's should be your total memory.
It's very strange this flaw behaviour, once that the UMA value is changed in the original Catalyst, there's no way to choose a value bigger than 16 MB.
I have found that executing the BIOS update this value is reseted to 128 MB, and installing the latest version of the Catalyst drivers posted by Dell, is a good combination to obtain a good performance, but when will be released a BIOS or a driver that allows to set this value to 256 MB?, my system has 2Gb of RAM and the video card shows a value of 512.
Message Edited by Thantelius on 01-21-200710:12 AM
Ya what the H3ll. When I first installed my hardware, after formatting my hard drive, after I first received my 1501, I did not seem to have any problem changing the graphics memory allocation. I would change it to say, 128, and it would still say 16 in the catalyst program after i restarted, but the system memory would be changed accordingly so I expected it to have been done correctly. But I flashed(updated) my BIOS recently and had to reinstall all my hardware, for some crazy reason, and now the new driver and catalyst software from dell, the newest version they offer, does not even have the option in it anymore. So I am stuck at 16 mBs with no option of changing. I contacted dell chat support and they told me to reinstall the driver by uninstalling the driver in safe mode first and then installing the new driver. I knew this would have no effect and it didnt. So i dont know what to do. I cannot install the drivers directly from ATI because apparently the ATI driver installation software doesnt recognize the card. Which is most likely due to the fact that the card is an ATI card fudged by dell. Unfortunately this computer was a present, If i had purchased it I never would have bought this integrated memory graphics card. Now I just wish it would work correctly. Message Edited by mttriplett on 02-09-2007 02:11 AM
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There are two things you can do. The first is go into the Bios. Enter the Exit menu, and restore system defaults. Then check your memory out. You can always restore your old Bios and the older version of your video driver if you wish, but I don't think it's necessary. The video driver is on one of the cd that came with your computer.
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