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Only 2GB ram usable after installing ATI Radeon 5850
Hi all
I'm running Windows 7 Pro, 32 Bit, 4GB ram.
I have just recently (in the last week) installed an ATI Radeon 5850 Graphics Card to run triple screens.
Everything seemed to be ok, but today (6 days after installation) when I right click on "Computer" in the start menu, and choose "Properties", windows tells me there's 4GB there but only 2GB usable.
I did a search on the forum and found the issue discussed many times. Part of my issue I think is that the graphics card is using some shared memory (although I didn't notice it earlier in the week). I saw that others had posed from dxDiag so I found where that was - here is the result
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Display Devices
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Card name: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: ATI display adapter (0x6899)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6899&SUBSYS_03481043&REV_00
Display Memory: 1782 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1016 MB
Shared Memory: 765 MB
Current Mode: 5040 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)
If this is my problem, how do I go about fixing it?
Cheers
Griffo