Re: XyWin on XP

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

> Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > BIOS Version/Date  Hewlett-Packard F.40, 10/26/2004
> >
> > BIOS F.40
> > KBC Version 31.42
> > Interestingly, though System info, once Windows is running shows I have
> > 512 MB of RAM, the set-up facility reports:
> >
> > System Memory: 384 MB
> Thank you, Harry. That's the sort of info we need. I will start compiling
> a table with this stuff and see what we get. The memory discrepancy may
> have to do with an obscure bit of RAM skulduggery that I thought had been
> long ago superseded. Or it may be that your VGA RAM is borrowing from your
> system RAM.

Hmmm, maybe. It's a laptop.
>  If you have on-board video (as many business, as opposed to gamers',
> systems do), it almost certainly does. But that means you're using 128 Mb
> for VGA, and that's a lot for a business system. But no, you said you're
> using two monitors, so you must have a separate VGA card.
Not in the removable-card sense, but something is behind that extra VGA
port I have on the back of the laptop, the port to which the external
monitor is attached.
>  Unless one monitor is running off onboard video and the other off an
> add-in card? Where are the VGA connectors on the back of your system? Are
> both on expansion slots? Or one on an expansion slot and one on the mobo?

Laptop, no expansion.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx