How to decrease system RAM being used by iGPU

[benyboi]

I have been able to successfully upgrade my GPU and PSU in this very locked-down system. I now rock a 400W PSU and a GTX 1660. Sooner or later, I'll be upgrading to a Ryzen 5 2600 and an extra 8GB's of RAM to make this machine the best it can be. However, in my current situation, I don't want to shell out the money to get those two items. I thought that in the meantime, I'll try to reduce the RAM being used by my now useless Vega 8 iGPU. In the past few months, I have been able to chip it down from 2 GB's to 1.1 GB's somehow. On motherboards commonly used in custom PC's, I've seen an option in their BIOS to reduce the VRAM usage to a whopping 256 MB's. I have already looked and as far as I can tell, no such option exists in my BIOS. Is there a different approach to this, maybe a firmware update will unlock that option? Or am I at a dead-end here.

[Photoray002]

Hello @benyboi 

What bios version is installed now?

You can find it in the HP Support Assistant or press Control/Alt/S for the info menu.

Current version is F.41  sp101891.exe

Not sure which version actually addressed the 1GB difference.

Here are your specs... https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06006068

The bios update is how the Vram for the Ryzen iGPU can be addressed. Its been a problem for HP and no help from AMD has ever come forward. There is nothing more you can do to fix it as the HP Bios is locked.

Hope that helps a little.