intel Chipset Graphics with win7

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

it's a question in my mind since two Years when i used my father's PC, it has a E5300 and there is something about it, when we used Win XP Back than, it identified the on Board Graphics as intel GMA and used 1024MB of the System memory For Graphics, when i installed Win7 on it, it idetified the On board Graphics As G41 Express Chipset and only used 64MB of the sys mem for Graphics, now going to a newer Version of Win has always resulted in improvement in Performance and usage of resource, so why ? why does it result in decrease of The amount of Graphics Mem and identify them different ?

[Lord Pantaloons]

You can set the amount of system RAM that is dedicated to the integrated graphics in the bios, 64mb is the standard allocated amount and someone must have set more when the system was running XP.

[Windows98SE]

XP probably reported the memory wrong. Or 7 is reporting the memory wrong.

 

I'm leaning towards the first one. 

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

You can set the amount of system RAM that is dedicated to the integrated graphics in the bios, 64mb is the stand allocated amount and someone must have set more when the system was running XP.

 

 

XP probably reported the memory wrong. Or 7 is reporting the memory wrong.

 

I'm leaning towards the first one. 

 

i thought so too, both of your ideas, But first, the Dell Mobo has a Boring Locked non tweackable BIOS, the only thing you could change is the HDD RMP From Silent to Performance, so the Odds of someone changing the amount are of the table, i also thought it just identified it wrong, but the Thing can't even handle a 720p Video, Not a game, just a Video without stuttering with Win7, and my father just keeps on complaining about it, i bought him a 6450 and solved it, but i just want to know why 

[Lord Pantaloons]

i thought so too, both of your ideas, But first, the Dell Mobo has a Boring Locked non tweackable BIOS, the only thing you could change is the HDD RMP From Silent to Performance, so the Odds of someone changing the amount are of the table, i also thought it just identified it wrong, but the Thing can't even handle a 720p Video, Not a game, just a Video without stuttering with Win7, and my father just keeps on complaining about it, i bought him a 6450 and solved it, but i just want to know why 

Even in a bios that is locked you can change the amount of system RAM the integrated graphics can use. I've been able to do it on every OEM desktop and every laptop I've ever touched.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

Even in a bios that is locked you can change the amount of system RAM the integrated graphics can use. I've been able to do it on every OEM desktop and every laptop I've ever touched.

Than plz do show me how ? it's Dell Optiplex 380, buuut, i don't think so, i tried, but there is no option for it, at all

[Lord Pantaloons]

Than plz do show me how ? it's Dell Optiplex 380, buuut, i don't think so, i tried, but there is no option for it, at all

Well I can't show you as I don't have one but if dell's bios from that time period is the same across the board then there should be a tab to select CPU or RAM options and it will be in one of those. If it isn't just poke around and see if you can find it.