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Coolinee_Kerman
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10 minutes ago, Coolinee_Kerman said:

I need help

So do we.

You have not given us enough info.

Come back and try again with model, motherboard, OS, and pics of the setup

NOTE: I no longer frequent this site. If you really need help, PM/DM me and my e.mail will alert me. 

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2 things I messed up when I had similar issues, and was first building PCs.

1.I had my monitor plugged into my motherboard instead of my GPU,

2.I need to go into my Nvidia control panel (right click on windows) and set it to use high-end GPU instead of Auto.

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3 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

2 things I messed up when I had similar issues, and was first building PCs.

1.I had my monitor plugged into my motherboard instead of my GPU,

2.I need to go into my Nvidia control panel (right click on windows) and set it to use high-end GPU instead of Auto.

 

4 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

So do we.

You have not given us enough info.

Come back and try again with model, motherboard, OS, and pics of the setup

It's an HP laptop, an AMD R7 M440, and Windows 10 Home

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15 minutes ago, Coolinee_Kerman said:

It's an HP laptop,

So you have switchable GFX? An onboard intel HD type thing, and a dedicated GFX card?

Typically these things require either a physical switch on the laptop, or a software package to swap between the two. Did you perhaps uninstall it recently by accident? Did it ever work?

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Just now, Radium_Angel said:

So you have switchable GFX? An onboard intel HD type thing, and a dedicated GFX card?

Typically these things require either a physical switch on the laptop, or a software package to swap between the two. Did you perhaps uninstall it recently by accident? Did it ever work?

It worked for about a day. I am sure that it is installed. I don't know where I would find a GFX switch

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1 minute ago, Coolinee_Kerman said:

I don't know where I would find a GFX switch

Not all laptops utilize a physical GFX switch. As I said, some are software only. Go back to HP's website and look through their drivers/software for the relevant model of your laptop and see what you can find.

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3 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Not all laptops utilize a physical GFX switch. As I said, some are software only. Go back to HP's website and look through their drivers/software for the relevant model of your laptop and see what you can find.

There aren't any new drivers for it

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Just now, Coolinee_Kerman said:

There aren't any new drivers for it

I didn't say new...

What I meant, was to go look through their software section and see if there is anything relevant to GFX switching, that might be missing on your laptop...

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So for the past 3 days I've been trying to get the R7 M440 in my laptop to work, but no matter what I do, it always manages to not use them. I have every single driver downloaded for it from HP's website but it still doesn't do anything, I also disabled the integrated graphics and it still somehow didn't use the dedicated graphics card. The card hasn't worked once since I got the laptop in mid-June. Is there something I've been missing or did I just get a bad laptop. If you have any suggestions at all then thank you.

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Have you tried downloading and installing the latest graphics drivers from AMD's website for your GPU? not HP's website

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So for the past 3 days I've been trying to get the R7 M430 in my laptop to work, but no matter what I do, it always manages to not use them. I have every single driver downloaded for it from HP's and AMD's websites but it still doesn't do anything, I also disabled the integrated graphics and it still somehow didn't use the dedicated graphics card. The card hasn't worked once since I got the laptop in mid-June. Is there something I've been missing or did I just get a bad laptop. If you have any suggestions at all then thank you.

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2 minutes ago, Coolinee_Kerman said:

Now in device manager it says it's an M440 not an M340??????????????????????//

Sick upgrade.

Get Aida64 and stress the gpu. Run a game benchmark and try to force usage. Download MSI afterburner and underclock it by like 1MHz to force usage.

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

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