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Posted on Oct 19, 2009

Cannot allocate hypermemory

I have an Acer Extensa 4420 with integrated Radeon xpress x1250 graphics. The system specs say the x1250 says up to 896 MB hyper memory, but in the BIOS I can only set it to 256. I have 4 gigs of ram in this laptop, so why won't it let me increase the memory allocated to the integrated graphics card any more?

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I've noticed that in the bios you can't increase Dedicated video memory because the max for your laptop is 256 but if you check your overall video memory with the shared memory added on by right clicking on your desktop and clicking screen resolution, go to advanced settings, and it should show your adapter with the amount of total graphics memory, the dedicated video memory (video memory of video card), system memory(Mine is 0), and shared video memory ( Ram being accolated together with the graphics card making more video card memory in all). If you switched to XP however, you will probably have less video card memory. Everything should be fine if your on your laptop's default operating system (Mine is windows 7 home premium).

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