HP Pavilion On board Video

[TiziteLayinLow]

I have a buddy who has a POS HP desktop. It only had 64mb pc100 sdram so i found another stick around my habitat.. it worked finem put him up to 192mb.. his onboard video then went out about 4 months later. I was told the other day that HP video cards pull from the memory.. could the different memory have fried the video card?

any help is appreciated.

-matt enderle
www.tizite.com

 

[nick1985]

so what exactly are you asking?

 

[Fern]

Nah, I wouldn't think so/can't see how. Don't feel guilty HP are P.O.S.

 

[busmaster11]

Unlikely. Even if it did, you're not to blame. Unless of course, he was also getting crashs, freezes and BSODs since you popped the memory in, in which case it meant you gave him bad ram.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

bad ram would cause corrupted graphics, BSODs, etc.

It's a video CHIP not card.

It uses system memory in the same way an AGP or PCI vid card uses it's onboard memory. Think of it as the Aperature.

I highly doubt bad memory could fry the "card", just corrupt the graphics.

 

[TiziteLayinLow]

Well for the 3-4 months his computer worked fine.. so with your statements i doubt that it was bad ram. i just wanted to make sure.. hes real cheap.. i told him to just get a amd athlon 1.3 and 512mb pc100.. hed see a big difference compared to his 500 celeron, with 192mb pc100..lol hes in the ice ages.. thanks though guys.. once again i appreciate the quick responses.