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PorkyChoUk
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Hello all,

 

I have a reference GTX 960 with a blower style cooler, and a couple days ago it recommended me to download and update some driver which I did. However yesterday and today I have noticed in my tool bar or whatever you call it something quite odd. 

 

 

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Like what would happen if I ejected it, would my graphics card still work?

 

and is it a bug?

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Apparently it's a hard drive now.

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It's a little thingy Nvidia introduced for laptops with external GPU docks. Don't mess with it.

This.

 

The new Nvidia drivers support hot swappable GPUs. It's not supported in most desktops yet.

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It would be hilarious if you clicked it and just heard a thump at the bottom of your case from the GPU hitting it xD 

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disconnects your GPU and reconnects it

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Yeah. It's the new driver (ver. 361.75 - WHQL, it's listed in the release notes) that was just released. 

 

Like we remember from CES2016, there are several external GPU enclosures intended for laptops coming soon-ish. And like Linus demonstrated, they really don't support going back and forth with the internal GPU via hot-plugging alone. He yanked the TB3 cable out and the system died right then and there.

 

The ability to eject your GPU seems like an ad-hoc solution from Nvidia to enable unplugging the external GPU without rebooting the entire machine. But by the looks of it, they seem to have made a mistake at are taking a calculated risk having ability on desktop too. Time will tell, how it will be in the long run but for the moment, it'll either crash your system or do nothing.

 

Your safest bet will be not to touch that button. The very least you'll lose any unsaved data if the system crashes for you, at worst corrupt your OS.

 

Here's my two cents: Maybe some day it'll enable the iGPU, if it's there. Maybe we can use this ability as an interface to do the thing with Powershell or other scripts. Maybe it's be hidden again later on and be full-fledged hot-plugging.

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It would be hilarious if you clicked it and just heard a thump at the bottom of your case from the GPU hitting it xD 

I saw this. I can't stop laughing now.  :lol:  :P

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I saw this. I can't stop laughing now.  :lol:  :P

That feature's coming in PCIe v5 ;)

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It would be hilarious if you clicked it and just heard a thump at the bottom of your case from the GPU hitting it xD 

 

LOL.

 

Hello all,

 

I have a reference GTX 960 with a blower style cooler, and a couple days ago it recommended me to download and update some driver which I did. However yesterday and today I have noticed in my tool bar or whatever you call it something quite odd. 

 

 

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Like what would happen if I ejected it, would my graphics card still work?

 

and is it a bug?

 

Anyway I just had the same thing happen to me http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/536651-how-to-disconnect-a-gpu-from-the-os/

Your not the only one :P

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