Your right i checked the packard bell site first time around and its gone,my ram is showing up as 4gb with windows and everything works fine,would it be a driver for graphics card is stopping the sound or is it the answer i get around net that'motherboard is using resources else ware and muting it.' My last thought was graphics card as ive checked everything else around internet.its a MSI motherboard will updating the drivers for that work.i couldnt find anything as its all in korean or german.im irish and translate didnt help it. Things are normally more simple than this. Computers are machines of logic. Said logic makes perfect sense to the people that develop and manufacture it, but it doesn't have to make sense to the end user. In the end, all a manufacturer cares about is that their product sells and that people are satisfied so that they'll buy more when it's time to upgrade. For example, the coding that makes a BIOS or UEFI work makes no sense to me.
However, it must make perfect sense to the people that made it. All that matters to me is that I understand the menus and can make changes as necessary.
And as long as I am satisfied with the performance of said BIOS or UEFI then I will likely buy more of their products when it's time for an upgrade. I may also recommend the product to other potential customers. Granted that was a little off topic, but it's the basic principal of the technology market. If I'm satisfied with a product, then what I don't understand about it doesn't really matter does it?
Msi Ms-7301 Ver 1.0 Manual Posted: adminOn 12/7/2017. Buy the MSI MS-7301 Packard Bell J8500 Socket LGA775 Motherboard at MicroDream.co.uk. This Item: MSI MS-7301 Packard. Version 3.16 Its a MSI CUBA MS-7301, its an OEM motherboard for a Packard Bell Imedia 2470, so there is no support for it on the MSI website.
You can tell? I thought my English was pretty good. I guess it's obvious now. I wanted to leave Germany behind and simply live in the US. Not much offense taken Maybe it's my experience with my father, he was a business man before (and after) we immigrated and they always talked that way.
When I came to the US, I was amazed at how simple the family car was to fix. It seems that in the US, things aren't made to last as long, but are easier to fix. In Germany, easy to fix isn't necessarily a design feature.
I always liked the episode of Fast N Loud where Aaron was building a Volkswagen and he had trouble with the parts and he's just like 'German engineered this, German engineered that'. Wow I'm off topic. Ya i googled more today and found a couple of sites showing my motherboard is max 2gb.im doing well with 3gb at moment.i tried MSi updater and found that the motherboard has MSI on it but isnt a MSI.my last ditch hope is to know two things. If i do buy a 4gb/2gb graphics card is the total only allowed to be 2gb from motherboard manufacters (eg.graphics card being 2gb + 3gb ram = 5gb toal or is graphics counted seperate.and will a sound card realistically allow me to use 4gb with 2/4gb graphics card.
Now that I have new information on the issue, I can tell you that the sound and RAM issues are coincidental. The memory controller is unstable because you're above it's maximum rated capacity. This means that the system will behave erratically. Since I now know this, I can say that a sound card may not fix the issue.
In fact, the only way to fix the issue may be to go back to 2GB of RAM. To answer your other question, VRAM on a graphics card is separate from system memory. Having a graphics card with let's say 8GB won't make the issues any worse. You're right in that the VRAM on the card and the system memory are related, but they're not pooled together. 