Shared GPU Memory Issue with Prodesk 400 G1

[BT77414]

I've now been using my Prodesk 400 G1 for quite a while, however, I have come across an issue that I haven't actually noticed before, but had been happening the whole time I've had it.

The photo on the right shows task manager. In the bottom half, despite me having an 8 Gigabyte Graphics Card, you can see that the BIOS has went and assigned half of my already small 8 Gigs of memory to the GPU. I checked the online guide and it talked of somewhere in the BIOS I could change this: Advanced> Device Options, and then it would be between controlling the integrated graphics and turning on or off the integrated speaker...

- "Integrated Graphics (Auto/Disable/Force) Use this option to manage integrated (UMA) graphics memory allocation. The value you choose is allocated permanently to graphics and is unavailable to the operating system. For example, if you set this value to 512M on a system with 2 GB of RAM, the system always allocates 512 MB for graphics and the other 1.5 GB for use by the BIOS and operating system. Default is Auto which sets memory allocation to 512 MB."

 When I looked, this option wasn't there. I tried updating the BIOS (which was already on the latest version, v02.56) but this didn't help either. I also tried enabling and disabling the integrated graphics, but still no hope there. Does anybody have any solutions?

[banhien · Accepted solution]

@BT77414 

That report does not (and never) show dedicated video card info, it ONLY shows iGPU info. Upgrading BIOS won't fix this, it is from Windows.

Regards.