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980m not showing in Device Manager!

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My 980m is not showing up in device manager, and an error messages comes up when attempting to re-install nvidia drivers. It was working earlier, shut it down and came back to do some work but it wasn’t working. It happened suddenly. 

 

My device is the Gigabyte P37X-V4

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Laptops often use the iGPU to save power when not doing any graphic intensive work (or when idling), and this may be the reason for why your 980M isn't showing in device manager.

 

I suggest you don't worry too much about it.

 

Btw, welcome to the LTT forums!

 

EDIT: This is assuming your GPU is not dead. 

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3 minutes ago, Geography said:

Laptops often use the iGPU to save power when not doing any graphic intensive work (or when idling), and this may be the reason for why your 980M isn't showing in device manager.

 

I suggest you don't worry too much about it.

 

Btw, welcome to the LTT forums!

On the contrary, both devices will show up under "Display Adapters" in device manager at all times if they are functioning correctly. I had this same issue a year ago with a 940M laptop and it turned out the 940M had died.

 

If you have any unknown devices showing under device manager one of them might be the 980M, but otherwise you might have a dead GPU.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

 

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15 minutes ago, Geography said:

Laptops often use the iGPU to save power when not doing any graphic intensive work (or when idling), and this may be the reason for why your 980M isn't showing in device manager.

 

I suggest you don't worry too much about it.

 

Btw, welcome to the LTT forums!

Devices do not remove themselves from device manager just from having a low power mode

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41 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

On the contrary, both devices will show up under "Display Adapters" in device manager at all times if they are functioning correctly. I had this same issue a year ago with a 940M laptop and it turned out the 940M had died.

 

If you have any unknown devices showing under device manager one of them might be the 980M, but otherwise you might have a dead GPU.

That is unfortunate! It definitely used to show up in device manager and doesn’t anymore. I am guessing that it is dead. It is only running the Intel 5600 graphics now

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Have you tried DDU?

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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3 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Have you tried DDU?

 

3 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Have you tried DDU?

Not sure what that means

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1 hour ago, lionofmen said:

Not sure what that means

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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This did happen though when I was trying to install latest drivers and the installation failed!

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16 minutes ago, lionofmen said:

I think the 980m is dead 

Probably

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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