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I discovered this when I finally got desperate enough to try reseating the GPU, went to unplug the HDMI cable from it, and realized that the HDMI cable was in fact not plugged into the GPU

Anyway, I'm loving my new prebuilt PC

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean… it still shouldn’t go black. There’s no reason why two video cards can’t work at the same time.

[–] Notcontenttobequiet@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are some CPUs (like the AMD Ryzen I'm currently running) that don't support on board graphics. So even if your motherboard has a spot for an on board HDMI it won't actually work. I'm assuming this is the case for OP.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah or it could be configured to disable the igpu if there’s a dgpu installed

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which is probably a good thing to do in prebuilts to prevent people from accidentally using the iGPU and wondering why their performance is so bad

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

They generally have that port blocked off or a text saying ”Don't plug your cable here” for that reason.

[–] barf@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Well if I had a million dollars