[orkadrk]

I was doing a bit of digging on the Atom processor and noticed that in a few cases, people had to choose "Load System Defaults" after a BIOS update to see VRAM changes. I updated to A03 a few days ago and the intel applet showed *8Min/64Max" for graphics memory. I decided I'd give reload system defaults a shot in teh BIOS and now I have 8 min / 128 Max.

Could someone else on A03 give it a shot and see if you get the same??

[orkadrk]

Forgot to mention I'm also running 2GB RAM. Screen shot of the Intel Properties attached.

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[nbock01]

Was this when you were performing the flash or in windows?

[orkadrk]

Originally Posted by nbock01

Was this when you were performing the flash or in windows?

I flashed to the A03 BIOS a few days ago and then checked the Intel properties under the control panel applet and I had the previously mentioned Max of 64MB RAM. Then today I went into the BIOS settings as the Mini booted and chose to Load defaults. I hadn't changed anything previously there but as I mentioned, I saw another thread that mentioned not being able to see the additional VRAM available until the system defaults were re-loaded in teh BIOS.

When I booted into Windows, I launched the applet again and this time i had 128MB as my max.

[peashooter]

I'm on A03 and mine also shows 128MB of max VRAM under the Intel applet and DXDiag. I always do a load from default after a bios update so I'm not sure what it was before.

[mostlyharmless22]

Well, is anyone noticing any difference in loading pages, etc., because of the change? :?:

[locoocol]

I can confirm this.... Before loading default options in BIOS , DXDIAG and Intel Video properties showed 64Mb Max... After both show 128 mb Max.

[GadgetBoi]

I can confirm this also :
Before Bios Default load
Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile Report
Report Date: 12/29/2008
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 20:37:37
Driver Version: 6.14.10.4926
Operating System: Windows XP* Home Edition, Service Pack 3 (5.1.2600)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 9.0
Physical Memory: 2038 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 64 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 6 MB
Processor: x86 family 6 Model 28 Stepping 2
Processor Speed: 1596 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 27AE
Device Revision: 03

After Bios Default load
Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile Report
Report Date: 12/29/2008
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 20:42:22
Driver Version: 6.14.10.4926
Operating System: Windows XP* Home Edition, Service Pack 3 (5.1.2600)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 9.0
Physical Memory: 2038 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 128 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 8 MB
Processor: x86 family 6 Model 28 Stepping 2
Processor Speed: 1596 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 27AE
Device Revision: 03

[nbock01]

unfortunately I didn`t try this before I flashed my bios...can someone with a00-a02 try this in their linux installtion? According to this I have a max of 256...or am I reading this wrong?

Nate

nate@mini:~$ sudo lspci -v -s 00:02.0
[sudo] password for nate:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02b0
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f0300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

[davico_rosello]

same here,128max

and now i can press fn+x=F12 jajaja

i notice the system booting faster, and in one game i was playing, it run smoother in some areas where i had low frame rates