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Please provide photos of such card. Maybe you just happen to have 4Mb variant? Have you checked datasheet of Ram chips?

Hi! here are some pics from one of the cards.

If I'm not mistaken the card has 4 x 2MB chips so yes, it looks like it has 8MB

The SEC KM416S1020CT-G10 is a 512K x16 Bit x 2 Bank SDRAM chip rated at 100 MHz. Each chip is 2 MB, 4 chips means 8 MB in total. If it isn't a hardware defect (which would be weird because usually you have artifacts or the card doesn't work at all), I suspect a software issue. Did you check if there is an option in the BIOS to limit video or PCI frame buffer memory?

It is usually a hardware limitation. I do have a S3 Trio3D/2X card with 8 MB but it only uses the first 4 MB for the framebuffer and the rest gets reserved for GDI and 3D stuff. This can be observed with the PowerStrip utility.

Hi! I have attached the photos from my Tekram Slot 1 BIOS. Can someone figure out which option might affect the card?

Since you are using Windows, I would disable the following options:

• System BIOS Cacheable
• Video BIOS Cacheable
• Video RAM Cacheable
• Video BIOS Shadow

I don't think this is directly related but those settings are leftovers from ancient days and might cause trouble.

You do seem to have a slight overclock of the external bus active though. Ext. Clock Frequency is set to 68.5 / 103 MHz, non-OC would be 66 / 100 MHz I guess. I'm not 100 % if that's AGP or FSB setting but it does look odd. I would give it a try and lower it, because the PCI and AGP frequency are likely derived from this setting.

Hi! I have disabled those features, no change. I am at a loss. I just cannot figure out what's wrong. Cannot find any infor online either. 🙁

Ok let me ask what I had in mind since the beginning:

anunnak wrote on 2023-11-07, 19:42:

My card that i recently bought from Ebay only sees 4 out 8 mb.

From where are you getting the information that the card only sees 4MB?

konc wrote on 2023-11-12, 10:04:

Ok let me ask what I had in mind since the beginning:

anunnak wrote on 2023-11-07, 19:42:

My card that i recently bought from Ebay only sees 4 out 8 mb.

From where are you getting the information that the card only sees 4MB?

Aida, Astra32, HW info. 😀

What does DXdiag show for the video memory in the diagnostic page?

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2023-11-12, 19:34:

What does DXdiag show for the video memory in the diagnostic page?

Hi! same, 4 mb.

Sorry to bump this thread again but does anyone have any ideas? I don't know what else I can do... 🙁

Well, I couldn't find anything online about this. Since it shows up in VGA BIOS on startup, I wouldn't expect a wrong BIOS flash for example. It could still be a driver issue, that either a certain amount of memory is reserved for something else or it is the wrong driver.