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I have acer e1 531g with nvidia 710m and I diasbled intel hd graphic in properties and immediately my screen goes black.How to fix it?
 
If your system uses NVidia Optimus, chances are that the display is routed to the Intel chip. It's a common misconception that people can do away with the Intel graphics, but on Optimus enabled systems, you can't as all video out is routed to the Intel graphics (on most laptops with Optimus).
 
As Prostar said. Chances are your system uses Nvidia Optimus, and without the Intel graphics enabled you cannot use the other. Don't worry about losing power, the Intel graphics practically shuts down when playing games, and the Nvidia graphics shuts down when you are just on internet and such. So if you can get it back on and leave it on.