My laptop has 2 GPUs how to disable the onboard GPU ?

[knowledge2121]

So I bought a new laptop and it comes with the Intel HD 630 and GTX 1050 TI....

In the BIOS settings there is no option to disable the HD 630...

When I disable the HD 630 in the device manager...I Cannot open Nvidia's control panel....it says there are no monitors attached to the card.....


How can I disable the intel completely and only have the 1050 ti as my GPU ? Is it even possible ?

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Why bother? Set your 1050ti as the default card. I don't know of a way to fully disable the HD graphics though

 

[knowledge2121]

I want to dualboot windows with linux...Nvidia has better driver support for linux....I have no idea about intel...I don't know how the two GPUs would behave under linux....Why can't it be disabled in the BIOS ? it is a DELL inspiron 15 7000 series....I am not going to game on this laptop....so I just need one GPU...And I like 1050ti better because it is better supported under linux...Looking for a way to just completely disable the intel....I don't think that would be possible though...any other thoughts ?

 

[Mousemonkey]

What's...with...all...the...full...stops...?

 

[dudeman509]

Why wouldn't Intel HD be supported in Linux? It's the default in 95% of systems out there.

Typically, laptops will use the Intel graphics to produce less heat and use less battery life, then kick in the discrete graphics chip if extra power is needed, or the Nvidia/ATI driver is set to run it for a certain program.

Some gaming laptops, mostly earlier ones, offered the option to completely disable onboard graphics via the BIOS, but it's the default on most newer systems.

 

[lakimens]

You can't disable it in laptops, the laptop uses this as a main GPU and the nvidia as a secondary, meaning when not running any programs, the laptop uses the Intel HD, when you turn on a game, it switches to the nvidia.

 

[knowledge2121]

I see, this is the first time I am seeing this....I also found an article that tells you how to switch them under Ubuntu...thanks for all the help...

 

[knowledge2121]

Sorry, But I have another Question...Both in Windows and Ubuntu you switch Graphic cards in the Nvidia control panel....Why is that ? Can't there be an independent software that switches graphic cards ?

Doesn't it sound odd that you can switch Graphic cards through the nvidia driver software but not through the Intel driver software ? How can Intel allow such thing ?

And, Also, When you switch graphics cards ... shouldn't there be a black screen between the transition ?

 

[dudeman509]

Sorry, But I have another Question...Both in Windows and Ubuntu you switch Graphic cards in the Nvidia control panel....Why is that ? Can't there be an independent software that switches graphic cards ?

Doesn't it sound odd that you can switch Graphic cards through the nvidia driver software but not through the Intel driver software ? How can Intel allow such thing ?

And, Also, When you switch graphics cards ... shouldn't there be a black screen between the transition ?

Black screen happened often on older switchable graphics setups, but it's almost instantaneous on my Radeon R7/Intel HD computer - just pops over to the other graphics card and runs with it.

The Nvidia driver is what activates the Nvidia card; when it disables the Nvidia graphics, it hands things back over to the Intel HD driver. So it is necessary to do so through the Nvidia driver. To my knowledge, that's really the only software to do it, since they write the drivers for their hardware.