Can I upgrade my video card?

[polyphemus]

Ok, I have a ATI Radeon mobility 9000 32mb for my laptop and as you can see, the memory is really low. How should I go about increasing the memory?


Here are my specs:


Dell Inspiron 8500
Mobile Intell Pentium 4-M CPU 2.20 GHz
2.19 GHz
512 MB RAM

 

[civverguy]

Laptop video cards are very hard to upgrade. The only way to increase memory is to get a new graphics card.

 

[Speedo]

Laptop video cards are very hard to upgrade. The only way to increase memory is to get a new graphics card.

Make that "basically impossible". The only laptops that really let you upgrade a video card are a very, very limited few designed for gaming which actually manage to squeeze regular laptop video cards into their cases.

 

[t0mme]

I have, alas, an integrated video card which shares memory with the CPU. I can assign 32, 64 or 128 to my video card. Perhaps that is possible with your ATi?

 

[polyphemus]

How do I do that?

 

[t0mme]

How do I do that?

Check the BIOS for the options you have

 

[Speedo]

I have, alas, an integrated video card which shares memory with the CPU. I can assign 32, 64 or 128 to my video card. Perhaps that is possible with your ATi?

With only 512MB total system RAM, I'd rather keep that for program use, personally.

 

[polyphemus]

I'm sorry bit I'm rather new to this stuff, can someone explain to me step by step what to do? What's BIOS?

 

[GVBN]

I'm sorry bit I'm rather new to this stuff, can someone explain to me step by step what to do? What's BIOS?

Basic input-output system. During booting you need to press a certain key in order to access bios. Usually it's Del, Esc or some F* key

 

[soul_warrior]

look HERE for pictorial instructions on upgrading your display card.

personally, id up your RAM to 1GB too.

either option will cost you, but the memory upgrade should be cheaper.
and when you do that, ask the techie to up my video card ram usage to the max. he'll know what to do.

that should fix all your problem in this area