Is there any other way then looking at the memory chips, because I don't want to remove the heat sink that's covering over them if possible.
The problem was caused by using the 4.8 Catalyst drivers, and disabling the DVI output to my LCD monitor (I was messing around with the settings to get a extended desktop to my TV). From that point on I could not get the card to detect that the DVI LCD monitor was connected, the enable button is grayed out. I've uninstalled and reinstalled older drivers to no avail. The problem also caused the TV monitor to be the dominant monitor on boot up (before windows xp loads). The TV shows the bios info first, before it displays it to a VGA monitor, and the VGA monitor resolution is messed up because it's trying to follow the TV's resolution. I've tried connected and unconnecting the VGA, DVI, and TV in all sorts of combinations to no avail. I've tried multiple driver versions to no avail.
It seems to me that the setting was saved onto the video card itself by the drivers to use the TV monitor first, since on bootup no drivers are loaded yet. I can't seem to get the setting back with the driver, so I'm hoping flashing the bios will return the card to it's factory settings, and it will once again detect my DVI LCD monitor and use it first on boot up.