Windows 8 Sony Vaio Laptop Not using integrated Intel HD 4000

[EraserArts]

Hello, this is my first post on Tom's Hardware, so please bare with me and I hope this is in the right place.

To start off with I have a Sony Vaio SVE1713Y1EB Laptop ( http://uk.hardware.info/productinfo/194361/sony-vaio-sve-1713y1eb ) and I've always been a little annoyed at how low its battery life is, since buying it about a year ago. Yesterday I've noticed something strange, while the laptop was idle with pretty much nothing on, it was using its dedicated Graphics card, instead of the integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics that it should be using; so I went into Device manager and found that it only listed the Dedicated ATI card in "Display Adapters", now I've read up a bit on the topic that in Nvidia cards its managed by Optimus, and the equivalent in ATI is Dynamic Switchable Graphics (DSG), but after looking around for a while I'm not exactly sure where to get this, is this a separate driver that i need to download or should I download a driver for the Intel HD 4000 card and DSG is already contained in the current ATI driver (with CCC)? also is there a way to set it up so that it switches to the dedicated card in certain applications and keeps using integrated in others?

Regards.
K. Marek

 

[ThrowinCards]

To start off yes its very much possible to use different ones with different programs but that's getting into wasting alot of time on setting that up and defining alot of programs, second check your molex to 6 pin adapter inside the computer if there is a problem there it will try to switch all power over to another card or back to integrated, if that doesn't work read the motherboard manual for your PC in the section on BIOS options
there will be a option to use on board graphics or PCI-e graphics.

 

[EraserArts]

To start off yes its very much possible to use different ones with different programs but that's getting into wasting alot of time on setting that up and defining alot of programs, second check your molex to 6 pin adapter inside the computer if there is a problem there it will try to switch all power over to another card or back to integrated, if that doesn't work read the motherboard manual for your PC in the section on BIOS options
there will be a option to use on board graphics or PCI-e graphics.

Hi, thanks for your reply, the laptop is under guarantee so I can't really open it to check anything inside, and I've searched through BIOS already and found nothing.

 

[ThrowinCards]

Sorry man thats all i could think of try installing the drives maybe it will work.

 

[Larsm1980]

Old post but i got a vaio pc myself with that problem you describe.

The thing is that sony has turned off the integrated intel card in bios. and have removed the option to turn in on.

The only option is to install a (Not sony) bios. A custom bios. And i don't think there's been made one yet.

So i am afraid we both are stuck with ati only.