Memory / Video Card Weirdness
This is a discussion about Memory / Video Card Weirdness in the Windows Hardware category; Ok - Here's a weird one. . . I have three Machines at home 2 with windows XP and one with Windows2000 The problem I have is with the windows2000 machine. Specs are K6-II 380mhz 64mb pc100 ram (more on this in a momemnt) 2xNIC cards 1xWestern Digital Pipeline 2mb vga PCI card I use this machine as a router for the o ...
Ok - Here's a weird one...
I have three Machines at home 2 with windows XP and one with Windows2000
The problem I have is with the windows2000 machine. Specs are
K6-II 380mhz
64mb pc100 ram (more on this in a momemnt)
2xNIC cards
1xWestern Digital Pipeline 2mb vga PCI card
I use this machine as a router for the other two machines.
The 2mb card performs ok for what I use it for... Unless I add more ram.
Yup - I nicked an extra 64mb out of my wifes machine and put it in my router taking it up to 128mb ram. As soon as I did this the gfx settigns fell to 16colours.
Normally the card will run at 32bit in 800x600 (which is all the monitor does) but as soon as I add the extra ram the properties state the gfx card only has 256k ram instead of 2mb.
Aside from buying a new gfx card - which I don't really want to do as it IS only a router - does anyone have any ideas as to what's going on here?
Don't get me wrong it works OK with 64mb - but I was wondering if there would be less HDD use if it had 128mb.
Dilligaf
(thanks for your time)
I have three Machines at home 2 with windows XP and one with Windows2000
The problem I have is with the windows2000 machine. Specs are
K6-II 380mhz
64mb pc100 ram (more on this in a momemnt)
2xNIC cards
1xWestern Digital Pipeline 2mb vga PCI card
I use this machine as a router for the other two machines.
The 2mb card performs ok for what I use it for... Unless I add more ram.
Yup - I nicked an extra 64mb out of my wifes machine and put it in my router taking it up to 128mb ram. As soon as I did this the gfx settigns fell to 16colours.
Normally the card will run at 32bit in 800x600 (which is all the monitor does) but as soon as I add the extra ram the properties state the gfx card only has 256k ram instead of 2mb.
Aside from buying a new gfx card - which I don't really want to do as it IS only a router - does anyone have any ideas as to what's going on here?
Don't get me wrong it works OK with 64mb - but I was wondering if there would be less HDD use if it had 128mb.
Dilligaf
(thanks for your time)
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