In article <jgboc1$k97$(E-Mail Removed)>, Paul <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>As for the 1GB claim, use Device Manager and verify the memory
>ranges listed in there. Post a URL to a screen capture of
>the Device Manager, if you can arrange it.

Here it is:
http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/9590/memorye.png

I am not sure how to translate the hex memory ranges into megabytes.

dk no.email.thankstospam.net (DK) wrote:

> Paul <nospam needed.com> wrote:
>
>>As for the 1GB claim, use Device Manager and verify the memory
>>ranges listed in there. Post a URL to a screen capture of the
>>Device Manager, if you can arrange it.
>
> Here it is: http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/9590/memorye.png
>
> I am not sure how to translate the hex memory ranges into
> megabytes.

Me either, but since I know I'll be corrected if wrong...

The second value has six more Fs. That translates into decimal
16777215. Then maybe you multiply that by 32 bits to get
536870880. Looks like 512 MB would be closer than 1 GB?

> 32 bits

Correction... "32 bytes"

....nevermind

"DK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:jgbmd9$6kb$(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <jgblb3$vnt$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed) (DK) wrote:
>
>>> Onchip VGA Frame Buffer Size
>>
>>Once PCIE --> PCI --> IGP sequence is chosen, this option is
>>not available.
>
> I take it back. There is no such option in the BIOS that I can find
> anywhere - regardless of the setting for video.
>
>

I don't think the Frame Buffer setting will show at all with the 210 installed, only when it is out and you're running
on the onboard chip.

GPU-Z is a different program than CPU-Z; it's for video cards/chipsets only.

I'm sorry I misled you about disabling the onboard video. I think I still had my old M2NPV-VM MB on my mind when I
posted that; it had the separate options of enabling/disabling.
--
SC Tom

DK wrote:
> In article <jgboc1$k97$(E-Mail Removed)>, Paul <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> As for the 1GB claim, use Device Manager and verify the memory
>> ranges listed in there. Post a URL to a screen capture of
>> the Device Manager, if you can arrange it.
>
> Here it is:
> http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/9590/memorye.png
>
> I am not sure how to translate the hex memory ranges into megabytes.
>

To reference another user's allocations, I couldn't find a Device
Manager picture for Geforce 210, so I grabbed the first Linux
one I could find.

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/g...rce-210-a.html

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 1212
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at ce000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at ef00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
Kernel driver in use: nouveau

The three mappings, appear to match your mapping, in terms of size.
A 16MB, a 32MB, and a 256MB segment. So it's not even reporting as
a 512MB card (as the 256MB segment would be 512MB, if it was a 512MB
card). If could be, that the card is "TurboCache", and dynamically
allocates additional memory from system memory. But that would not
affect the "free" memory reported by the OS. It doesn't explain why
it reports as 1GB.

When I compare your map to my map, it looks like your computer
is avoiding the top-most 512MB, and I don't see a device listed
that corresponds to that range. That can happen, if a fixed
allocation is given to the built-in graphics. Some of your
hardware devices needing bus space, are at 0xDE, and 0xE0 to 0xFF
would be 512MB of space.

As near as I can determine, 512MB is just being wasted. And I
can't tell exactly why. Either a BIOS bug, or still related
to the IGP (integrated graphics).

Paul

On 02 Feb 2012 01:27:16 GMT, John Doe <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>dk no.email.thankstospam.net (DK) wrote:
>
>> Paul <nospam needed.com> wrote:
>>
>>>As for the 1GB claim, use Device Manager and verify the memory
>>>ranges listed in there. Post a URL to a screen capture of the
>>>Device Manager, if you can arrange it.
>>
>> Here it is: http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/9590/memorye.png
>>
>> I am not sure how to translate the hex memory ranges into
>> megabytes.
>
>Me either, but since I know I'll be corrected if wrong...
>
>The second value has six more Fs. That translates into decimal
>16777215. Then maybe you multiply that by 32 bits to get
>536870880. Looks like 512 MB would be closer than 1 GB?

It's already in bytes.

Besides, you're not looking at the main buffer. That's at C0000000
and it's 256mb.

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:20:38 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (DK)
wrote:

>In article <jgboc1$k97$(E-Mail Removed)>, Paul <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>As for the 1GB claim, use Device Manager and verify the memory
>>ranges listed in there. Post a URL to a screen capture of
>>the Device Manager, if you can arrange it.
>
>Here it is:
>http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/9590/memorye.png
>
>I am not sure how to translate the hex memory ranges into megabytes.

Windows 7 calculator in programmer mode can deal with the math for you
quite easily.

I see three buffers on there:
256mb at C0000000
32mb at DC000000
16mb at DF000000

(I'm not counting the little one in low memory that exists to emulate
an old-fashioned VGA.)

On 2/1/2012 1:19 AM, DK wrote:
> I installed GeForce 210 into Asus M4N68T-M-V2.
>
> The label on a card very clearly indicates 512 Mb. However,
> XP reports only 3 Gb memory out of 4 and both CPU-Z and
> SIW ("System Information for Windows") report 1024 Mb
> video memory.
>
> I have no use for anything above 512 Mb of video memory but
> once in a while having more than 3 GB memory is useful for
> a few things that I do. So I am trying to understand what's going
> on and how it can be solved. I can't find anything in BIOS that
> would relate to the video memory is concerned.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks,
>
> Dima
>
>
Have you considered that the video card might actually _have_ 1024mb of
memory installed? Mistakes do happen and I'm sure that the person at the
factory isn't being paid the big bucks for sticking labels on them as they
pass on the assembly line. Of course the real answer is to pop the heatsink
and determine what memory chips are installed and to do the math.

BTW, with XP you are unlikely to seem much more than 3gB installed memory
if you have 4gB of SIMMs installed.

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:27:13 -0800, Loren Pechtel
<(E-Mail Removed)> put finger to keyboard and composed:

>On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:20:38 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (DK)
>wrote:
>
>>In article <jgboc1$k97$(E-Mail Removed)>, Paul <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>As for the 1GB claim, use Device Manager and verify the memory
>>>ranges listed in there. Post a URL to a screen capture of
>>>the Device Manager, if you can arrange it.
>>
>>Here it is:
>>http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/9590/memorye.png
>>
>>I am not sure how to translate the hex memory ranges into megabytes.
>
>Windows 7 calculator in programmer mode can deal with the math for you
>quite easily.

Here's another way:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%280x...s+in+megabytes
http://www.google.com/search?q=%280x...%29+in+decimal

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