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Question about i3 and HD graphics

Charlie98

Charlie98

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Over Christmas I swapped out the Sandy Pentium chip in my HTPC with a Sandy i3 2100. I had a HD6450 GPU in, but just yesterday swapped in my old GTX560Ti. Odd thing is... in Device Manager, the GTX560 shows up... but not HD2000 graphics like they did/do on all my other machines. I updated the Intel HD graphics driver (successful) so it's in there somewhere... but it's not showing up.

I'm not using the iGPU, but I just thought that was kind of odd and was wondering... 😕
 
If you plug a display into the onboard graphics adapter, do you get anything? I see both on my laptop, but it has been a while since I activated the onboard graphics on my desktop.
 
You could also check to see if it's hidden. There is a 'show hidden devices' under the view in device manager. If so, it may be hidden because of what ketchup79 is hinting at... Hidden until a monitor is plugged.
 
razel said:
You could also check to see if it's hidden. There is a 'show hidden devices' under the view in device manager. If so, it may be hidden because of what ketchup79 is hinting at... Hidden until a monitor is plugged.
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did you reset your BIOS so it would detect the new chip?
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Hmmm... it might be a combination of the two... It does show up as hidden, but only the Intel HD Graphics, not HD 2000. My i5's show up as HD 3000 Graphics, etc, so I'm guessing that was the old iGPU from the Pentium. I have yet to use the iGPU with the new i3... it's always had a discrete card by then.

I did NOT clear the BIOS when I dropped the new chip in.
 
denis280 said:
use what i told you about in your other post😉
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I did... that's how I saw the old HD driver. There's a BUNCH of ghost files on the HTPC, but it's my original W7 install on there, too.

I may clear the CMOS and see if it will pick up the HDMI cable if I plug it in the mobo...
 
On my haswell I had to go into uefi (bios) and change the settings for the VGA(init display first,but might be different naming for you) to IGPU first(instead of PCI first),no display up to logging into windows, but I can use quick sync 🙂
 
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