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    Need to confirm a quick memory question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Jboogey, Sep 19, 2012.

  1. Jboogey

    Jboogey Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ive been noticing that when running say, hwmonitor or cpu-z it only shows my a10's 7660g as my graphics card.

    When running 3dmark 11 and trying to choose which gpu theres only the IGP on the list.

    Where is my 7730m?

    I updated everything and downloaded and installed the cat 12.8 drivers. Thats about it as far as making changes. Do I need to set something?
     
    Jboogey, Sep 19, 2012
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    Jboogey, Sep 19, 2012
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    LTBonham Notebook Evangelist

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    Probably nothing wrong. It is just that your shiny new 7730m is designed to shut down when not in use. Meaning that unless you have some sort of program that forces the 7730m into active use, it will entirely shut off and not show up on GPUZ, HWMonitor or whatever. So what you need to do is start a program that will give some sort of workload to the 7730m, THEN load up HWMonitor/GPUZ. Minecraft would be an easy choice.
     
    LTBonham, Sep 20, 2012
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    Use manual switch for graphics. Try Leshcat's driver.
     
    Kirrr, Sep 20, 2012
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