Re: Asus V9180 Problems -- Add RAM?
- From: nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul)
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:50:23 GMT
In article <1126460728.826836.314590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Ray"
<Ray.Woodcock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I bought the Asus P4PE motherboard and added the V9180VS video graphics
> card a couple of years ago. My video drivers are current. My system
> is now having difficulties that make me think I may have inadequate
> video RAM. I've got adequate system RAM -- I have 1 GB and I'm running
> a piece of freeware (FreeRAM XP) that typically tells me I have several
> hundred MB of RAM available.
>
> The video problems I'm having include these: (1) PDF difficulties.
> Sometimes, when I have more than one program (or multiple browser
> sessions) showing multiple PDF files, only one will be visible at a
> time. I have to finish with that one and kill it before the others are
> visible. Sometimes none of them is visible and I basically have to
> kill them all, and sometimes even reboot, to get the system back up and
> running smoothly. (2) Residue of previously opened programs.
> Sometimes, after I kill a program or cease an operation, I'll have a
> part of it still visible on the screen. Like, for instance, I might
> right-click on an icon in the system tray and get its menu, but then
> I'll want to go back to what I was doing onscreen, but that menu will
> just persist.
>
> I'd like to verify whether video RAM is the problem and, if so, I'd
> like to know whether I can add more RAM and, if I do so, whether that
> is apt to solve the problem. I was somewhat knowledgeable about video
> cards when I bought the V9180 but, as I say, that was a couple of years
> ago. I don't know at this point whether adding more RAM (assuming I
> can do that) would be the solution. But I'm certainly interested in
> hearing opinions.
It sounds like the things you are talking about, use 2D operations
on the video card. To do 2D, you need frame buffer sized chunks of
memory, and the 64MB on your card should be plenty for that.
What you have, is a failure of sorts, but what an orderly failure.
If you have bad video memory on a card, typically you get colored
blocks or abstract geometric patterns. Many other failure modes
would result in a crash.
Similarly, if your system RAM was bad, you would expect it to manifest
in more ways than that. (Use memtest86+ from memtest.org, if
you are concerned about that.)
I wonder if the video driver itself is corrupted ? Have you updated
the driver recently ? Be aware, that typically, the latest video
driver is not the greatest, as new driver releases are for
optimization of newer video cards, and sometimes these newer drivers
break the older cards (for unexplained reasons).
I would uninstall the video driver, then dig up a driver that
other people are happy with. Try a Google search on mx440 and
"video driver", and see what drivers people have had issues
with. Then, go to Nvidia and download a few and try them out.
You should uninstall the original video driver first.
(Archived files are here)
http://www.nvidia.com/page/search.html?keywords=archive
If you have not been careful to uninstall old video drivers,
before installing new ones, there are tools like "Detonator
Destroyer" and the like, for removing old drivers. I haven't
been keeping up with the capabilities of Detonator Destroyer
(doesn't look like it handles WinXP), but perhaps something
from this page can be used to try to clean up a case of
left-over driver files. (I messed up one OS install by
using at least three different brands of video cards without
attention to the drivers, and even using all driver cleaning
tools, could not get rid of it all. I've learned my lesson,
and "Add/Remove" is the first thing I reach for now.)
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=5
Finally, get a copy of "Everest Home Edition" from lavalys.com
and have a look at the listed hardware capabilities for your
video card. Perhaps the video card is declaring it has a lot
less memory than is physically present ? Powerstrip is another
tool (www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm), that sits on the
task bar, and has a popup menu with "Options" information.
HTH,
Paul
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