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    Y580 Clean Windows install + Linux question

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by blowntaha, Sep 17, 2012.

  1. blowntaha

    blowntaha Notebook Enthusiast

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    If I do a clean install of Windows, and ONLY install the 660m drivers, then will that get rid of NVIDIA Optimus so that my laptop will NEVER EVER switch to the integrated chip?

    I was thinking of dual booting with Linux regardless for notetaking and using it unplugged, so optimus is just something that is making things rather annoying for me.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    blowntaha, Sep 17, 2012
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  2. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

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    Good move to LINUX! Before you do a clean install enter your BIOS and see if there is an option there to turn off Optimus or use the 660m only.
     
    JOSEA, Sep 17, 2012
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    blowntaha Notebook Enthusiast

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    I already checked for that and there is only an option to disable the GTX 660m NOT the crappy integrated, hence the clean install.

    I don't get why they would give me an option to disable the sexy GTX 660m but not the integrated... On my old m11x, it gave me options to disable the onboard and to use discrete graphics only.
     
    blowntaha, Sep 17, 2012
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    link626 Asus GL502VM, Lenovo Y580, Asus K53TA

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    did you try disabling the intel igp in the device manager?

    it's not an elegant solution, but it could work for desktop functions
     
    link626, Sep 18, 2012
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    blowntaha Notebook Enthusiast

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    doing that made my computer not recognize my 660m at all
     
    blowntaha, Sep 18, 2012
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    link626 Asus GL502VM, Lenovo Y580, Asus K53TA

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    yeah, i tried it too. it failed.

    one person implied he got it working on another laptop.

    oh well, too bad. You will have to wait till someone hacks the bios. might be a few months before lenovo releases a bios pack
     
    link626, Sep 18, 2012
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    blowntaha Notebook Enthusiast

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    Who was the person? Could you post a link if you have it available please.
     
    blowntaha, Sep 18, 2012
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    y590 Notebook Guru

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    it isn't possible to disable the graphics on the cpu with an optimus laptop in the bios. there is a complicated answer as to why. the hardware combination wont allow it.
    if u had a non optimus enable gtx 660m, like the asus g55vw there is probably and option in the bios to do what you want.
     
    y590, Sep 18, 2012
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    y590 Notebook Guru

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    a good example of this is the clevo P170EM. it is with 7970m amd's enduro architecture instead of invidia's optimus.

    the 7970m has a ton of problems with enduro... and everyone with one wants to do what you want to do.

    AnandTech - AMD.

    there is a laptop that has the advanced switching technology, and can also just use the beefier more power consuming gpu.


    RE: Eh by JarredWalton on Thursday, September 06, 2012
    There are no "quick fix" solutions for complex problems. As for the Alienware, the interesting thing is that it has hardware muxes so you can turn off the integrated graphics (so the display outputs get routed directly to the dGPU). Why would they do that when they have Enduro? Probably because they don't like the way Enduro works right now but they wanted to give users the option of getting better battery life. How's that for confidence?
     
    y590, Sep 19, 2012
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