Enigma III 540 Switch to integrated graphics

[heggy]

Hi guys, after 3.5 years my GPU finally failed. It's outside the warranty I know but I was wondering if you guys can provide any insight into how to make intel hd graphics work?

The only display device that ever shows up is the now defunct GPU. If the GPU is enabled the windows login screen will either render in 8-bit colour at 800x600, or it will be rendered in yellow 4 times vertically on the screen.

When disabled I can browse the internet at regular resolution and colour etc. but any programs which require a graphical device immediately crash to the desktop.

When I try to install Intel HD 3000 graphics (which my processor, the i7 2630QM supports according to the spec) I get an error saying my computer does not meet the minimum requirements.


--Spec--
Enigma III 540M
i7 2630QM (Spec says it supports HD 3000 graphics)
nVidia GT 540M (borked)
8gb Samsung 1333MHz RAM
500Gb HDD

 

[SpyderTracks]

If you've still got the nvidia drivers installed when you run anything graphically demanding it'll switch to the dgpu and fail back to windows. You need to firstly go into the device manager and disable the dgpu, then fully uninstall any nvidia graphics drivers, reboot. Then it should only use the onboard graphics.

 

[heggy]

If you've still got the nvidia drivers installed when you run anything graphically demanding it'll switch to the dgpu and fail back to windows. You need to firstly go into the device manager and disable the dgpu, then fully uninstall any nvidia graphics drivers, reboot. Then it should only use the onboard graphics.

Hi, thanks for the reply. When I disable the gpu, uninstall the drivers and reboot, windows just goes ahead and redownloads them. Just for people's information, your comment before edit suggested that I turn on onboard graphics on the motherboard, this option is not available on this motherboard unfortunately. The current BIOS version is InsydeH20 3.5 and has only very primitive options, boot POST delay etc.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi, thanks for the reply. When I disable the gpu, uninstall the drivers and reboot, windows just goes ahead and redownloads them. Just for people's information, your comment before edit suggested that I turn on onboard graphics on the motherboard, this option is not available on this motherboard unfortunately. The current BIOS version is InsydeH20 3.5 and has only very primitive options, boot POST delay etc.

The comment before edit was for a desktop, then realised you were talking about a laptop. Are you sure you disabled the dgpu (nvidia) in device manager? It wouldn't try to install drivers on reboot as the device is effectively no longer present when disabled.

 

[heggy]

Yep, initially I disabled and removed it in Device manager, however if I remove it, it gets re-enabled the next time I launch windows. I then settled on just disabling and that seems fine for regular usage. However, I have had no luck getting the computer to acknowledge any form of onboard graphics after restarting. I have tried a variety of older and new versions of the hd graphics drivers but all still give the message that I don't meet the minimum requirements.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Yep, initially I disabled and removed it in Device manager, however if I remove it, it gets re-enabled the next time I launch windows. I then settled on just disabling and that seems fine for regular usage. However, I have had no luck getting the computer to acknowledge any form of onboard graphics after restarting. I have tried a variety of older and new versions of the hd graphics drivers but all still give the message that I don't meet the minimum requirements.

Weird. Found this thread:

https://communities.intel.com/mobile/mobile-access.jspa#jive-content?content=%2Fapi%2Fcore%2Fv3%2Fcontents%2F31962