Has my laptop had its time to shine??
Although my laptop i THINK has decent graphics, and can run the sims (i have like 90% of the DLC as well + 10GB of cc/mods) the graphic quality just isnt how i remember it being and ive been having i...
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@aly975 Right after I finished the reply to your post my computer just shut down. I was using an old ps2 keyboard and I couldn't get the keyboard to work on this computer. So I took the computer to another location and the computer boots. I take it back and no keyboard. I take the keyboard to another location and the keyboard works. I can not get the ps2 keyboard port to work (again). I put a usb keyboard in and now I'm working again. It's an Asrock motherboard and I think it's time to get a Gigabyte motherboard. You must have the chip its just a matter of getting the right driver to make it work right. AND you have the better chip. Like I said everything you wanted to know and more. Run dxdiag once more and see if the 740 is picked up.
@roberta591 sorry for the double reply but i was google searching how to get your laptop to recognize the nvidia 740m and came across a forum and one of the replies said this -
"hello, so I was having the same problem. for me the solution was very simple. Just open your bios menu when you restarting your pc (in my case it was F2, i am using acer). in the bios menu go to MAIN then select the graphic card from integrated to swichible. Save and restart and all problems gone"
Is this worth a try or would that be something that could really mess up my laptop? i have never tried changing bios before.
@aly975 It is worth checking the bios but be aware different manufacturers may do thing different as today you have the UEFI to make changes in the bios. The bios is still there but now you have a different interface and you can now have more then 2Tb in a partition. there are more small differences but for backwards compatibility the bios is still there but going away fast. It is worth a check but beware there may be an option like that but worded different.
@roberta591 so i checked the bios (was following a video tutorial to figure out how to get there and find the graphics device option to change it from integrated to discrete) but my bios had no such option in the configuration part of it.. what does this mean now?
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