Today I decided to clean my laptop, re-applied thermal paste and cleaned the dust. So far the results are great, I saw temperatures dropping down -20%. (It's the 3rd time I re-applied thermal paste, I have the laptop for 6 years so I thought it was a good opportunity to do it today after 2 years).
However I noticed that my nvidia GPU isn't getting detected. I noticed it when I tried to update the drivers and I was getting errors, I tried launching a game and it was using the intel gpu. From control panel I went to nvidia control panel but I couldnt open it because I was getting an error "An nvidia gpu was not detected on this system". I am pretty sure I re-applied thermal paste the same way I did in previous times and I never had that kind of issue.
Any suggestions of how I can fix or check that nvidia gpu is properly working and it's just some kind of windows bug? Do I really have to open my whole laptop again and re-apply thermal paste to make sure everything is connected correctly? Can I do something from BIOS maybe?
However I noticed that my nvidia GPU isn't getting detected. I noticed it when I tried to update the drivers and I was getting errors, I tried launching a game and it was using the intel gpu. From control panel I went to nvidia control panel but I couldnt open it because I was getting an error "An nvidia gpu was not detected on this system". I am pretty sure I re-applied thermal paste the same way I did in previous times and I never had that kind of issue.
Any suggestions of how I can fix or check that nvidia gpu is properly working and it's just some kind of windows bug? Do I really have to open my whole laptop again and re-apply thermal paste to make sure everything is connected correctly? Can I do something from BIOS maybe?