Satellite C855D-S5303 Video Memory

I just bought this laptop because I needed something that wasnt expensive and needed it quickly (for college). I have replaced the original 2GB's of RAM with 8GB's. Is there a way to dedicate some of this extra RAM to my video memory? I have already checked the BIOs but I didn't see the setting. Any help on this would be great. 

No, that's not possible.
- Peter

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    Satellite C855D-S5303
    Best to restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media. You can obtain that from Toshiba. Scroll down to Get Recovery Media here
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