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    Laptop wont use dedicated gpu

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by toadknight, Sep 18, 2015.

  1. toadknight

    toadknight Newbie

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    Hi there,

    I recently purchased the 8651s with the 970m gpu. The computer recognizes the gpu both in gpu-z and in the device manager. However, everything is defaulting to using what appears to be on board graphics. I have tried disabling the onboard graphics, setting the 970m to be the default gpu through the nvidia control panel, and I looked at premamod for the modded bios but I can't use it as it specifically states it is not compatible with broadwell based systems.

    Does anyone happen to have any solution for this? Even with it disabled through the device manager, the "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" is STILL defaulted to for everything and I am extremely confused why. I am using the most recent chipset driver from the Sager website and the most recent nVidia driver directly from their website. It is running on windows 10 if that makes any difference
     
    toadknight, Sep 18, 2015
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  2. Prema

    Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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    You can not disable the iGPU as it is required for the dGPU signal in order to 'reach the display'.
    Update the Intel GPU driver manually to the latest version...
     
    Prema, Sep 18, 2015
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    Got it working. Thanks.
     
    toadknight, Sep 18, 2015
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  4. LoneWolfs

    LoneWolfs Notebook Guru

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    There really isn't any possibility to disable the iGPU? I mean can't we connect the wires to the dGPU or change anything hardware related?
     
    LoneWolfs, Sep 18, 2015
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  5. Prema

    Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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    A very talented person could probably rewire the board & mod the bios, but yeah...nope. ;)
     
    Prema, Sep 18, 2015
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    That's a lot of traces, I dread to think what the end result would look like :/
     
    Meaker@Sager, Sep 19, 2015
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  7. Prema

    Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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    On many models everything needed is already on the board (leftovers from direct dGPU configurations during development).

    Khenglish did it on his P150EM (still facing some issues).
     
    Prema, Sep 20, 2015
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    Oh I did not know that, very interesting.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Sep 21, 2015
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    I wonder why Clevo didn't connect the display directly to the dGPU, like some Asus models did, since Maxwell is pretty good regarding energy consumption and also it would have given us G-Sync.
     
    LoneWolfs, Sep 21, 2015
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