Onboard GPU Issues

vcdomith

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Oct 23, 2016
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I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5557 which has an intel onboard GPU and a Nvidia 930 M dedicated GPU, however, when I disable the onboard one it says that i have disconnected my Nvidia one (which is not true).
After I disabled the onboard GPU in the Device Manager I ran into some problems in autocad, in which it said that I could not use Hardware Acceleration. Then a prompt appeared with a link to the Tuner Log, where I found some really weird text strings:


"VideoController0
AdapterDACType Integrated RAMDAC
AdapterRAM 4293918720
ConfigManagerErrorCode 0
CurrentHorizontalResolution
CurrentVerticalResolution
DriverDate 20161001000000.000000-000
DriverVersion 21.21.13.7306
InstalledDisplayDrivers C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdmi.inf_amd64_96feac2ff3979cc1\nvd3dumx,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdmi.inf_amd64_96feac2ff3979cc1\nvwgf2umx,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdmi.inf_amd64_96feac2ff3979cc1\nvwgf2umx,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdmi.inf_amd64_96feac2ff3979cc1\nvwgf2umx,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdmi.inf_amd64_96feac2ff3979cc1\nvd3dum,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdmi.inf_amd64_96feac2ff3979cc1\nvwgf2um,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdmi.inf_amd64_96feac2ff3979cc1\nvwgf2um,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdmi.inf_amd64_96feac2ff3979cc1\nvwgf2um
Name NVIDIA GeForce 930M
Status OK
TimeOfLastReset
VideoArchitecture 5
VideoModeDescription



VideoController1
AdapterDACType Internal
AdapterRAM 1073741824
ConfigManagerErrorCode 22
CurrentHorizontalResolution 1920
CurrentVerticalResolution 1080
DriverDate 20160303000000.000000-000
DriverVersion 20.19.15.4404
InstalledDisplayDrivers igdumdim64.dll,igd10iumd64.dll,igd10iumd64.dll,igd12umd64.dll,igdumdim32,igd10iumd32,igd10iumd32,igd12umd32
Name Intel(R) HD Graphics 520
Status Error
TimeOfLastReset
VideoArchitecture 5
VideoModeDescription 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 cores"
 
Solution
These laptops are designed to use the dedicated graphics only when needed. I wouldn't mess with it, let the laptop manage it. There may be guides out there on making the laptop use dedicated all the time but you will have to Google it.

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These laptops are designed to use the dedicated graphics only when needed. I wouldn't mess with it, let the laptop manage it. There may be guides out there on making the laptop use dedicated all the time but you will have to Google it.
 
Solution

vcdomith

Commendable
Oct 23, 2016
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1,510

Thank you