>You're welcome. FWIW 128MB is pretty routine for video RAM, maybe even considered minimal by today's standards. These days many (most?) new machines come with 256MB or even 512MB RAM on their graphics cards.

WOW! Have I been out of the loop for awhile (as far as video is concerned)!!

I am going to have to bone up on Video Cards to not be so ignorant!

Tommy

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>>Yeah, I looked at the numbers and thought......... wow... 128 megs for Video. I guess it is the price I will have to pay....
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>>Thanks!
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>>>Hi Tommy,
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>>>Just a wild guess here, but some low-end machines use main memory for video RAM. I don't know if this affects how much memory is reported in My Computer Properties, but it could be yours is using 128MB for video, leaving 768 minus 128 = 640MB available for system use.
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>>>-Rick
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>>>>Hi Gang!
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>>>>I have an eMachines T3504 PC at home (3.2 Ghz CPU and 256 Meg of RAM).
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>>>>I purchased 512 Meg of RAM yesterday and installed it. There are only 2 RAM slots.
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>>>>1) I left the 256 RAM in the first slot and placed the 512 RAM in the second.
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>>>>I thought the total would be close to 768 RAM.
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>>>>But it was 640 RAM in My Computer Properties.
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>>>>sigh.....
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>>>>So....
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>>>>2) I changed them around. I placed the 512 in the first slot and the 256 in the second.
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>>>>Still 640 RAM.
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>>>>Any of you have something like this happen? What should I look for? BIOS settings or what?
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>>>>Thanks!!
>>>>
>>>>Tommy