Hello,
I would like to know if there is an option in the BIOS to disable the GPU Expansion Bay.
Thank for your answers.
I don’t think the bios has any setting for that. But in windows and Linux, you can disable the pcie card that is the gpu.
I guess the question is more why do you want to do it?
No you can’t, and there is no reason to.
I can think of a couple reasons. OP, are any of these along the lines of what you’re thinking?:
- Troubleshooting.
- Battery life. Yes, it’s not supposed to turn on unnecessarily, but the reality is that it does. There are time’s I’d also rather game on the 780M but doing that with the 7700s installed is difficult.
I don’t have one myself, but I believe the RTX 5070 dGPU supports turning the dGPU off entirely via BIOS based on some screenshots I saw somewhere on the forums. RX 7700s module does not, as they said.
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Disabling a gpu in bios would likely make the power consumption go up as we don’t really have a way to cut power from the gpu and without any communication from the host it would sit there not knowing what to do instead of being initialized and told to go into a low power mode.
This has not been my experience on other devices with this feature, but as you say it’s possible the design of the FW 16 doesn’t allow for such a feature, I’m no expert in the electrical design of the FW.
Very strange of you to go off attacking me out of nowhere. All I did was provide a direct answer based on the available information. OP never stated why they wanted to disable it, whereas you are trying to fill in the blanks and make up reasons.
Laptops having this feature usually also have a way to cut power to the gpu, that is phyiscally missing here.
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To me, reading someone saying there is no reason to want to do what someone wants to do sounds disrespectful. I apologize if my own response was also rude, I’m just trying to encourage a positive environment for new forum members. I’ll try to update my reply to be less abrasive.
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