If I remove my dedicated graphics card, will my PC automatically use the integrated one?

[chorizard10]

Hi,
So I'm giving away one of my desktops without its graphics card. I want to know, what would happen if I just remove my NVIDIA graphics card. Would it automatically detect the integrated one my CPU has and run it normally? I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on this, and I installed the NVIDIA drivers on it. Do I have to do something before or after I remove the GPU?

 

[Maarsch]

Yes

Although to be sure the last thing I do before removing a GPU is rebooting it and manually tell the BIOS to take its graphics stuff through on-board.
Then I write down the commands to do it again when forced to do it blind if for some reason this didn't take - I have never had to use this.

 

[GameFreak01048]

Hello!

It will work just fine, you will turn on your pc and it will think "Oh...no GPU, alright i'll use the integrated one" and it should boot fine and auto detect what it can and can't use

 

[geofelt]

The motherboard bios should detect that your monitor is connected to the integrated adapter.
Some old/dumb bios may not do so.
Before sending off the pc, I would take the time to test that all is working without the dedicated graphics card.