Laptop showing 2 NVidia GPUs

Sapphron

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Oct 22, 2016
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Hello!
Recently, I was trying to hook up a device to my machine, and I noticed that when I was in Device Manager, I could enable hidden devices. I go to my Display Adapters section, and I see this: http://prntscr.com/dvl2lu
I have a 920M (and the Intel dedicated)graphics card installed on my laptop, so when I saw that I was shocked.
I attempted installing a driver for the 940M, but it said there was a newer version already. What really confused me after that was this: http://prntscr.com/dvl3b9
So the "better GPU" isn't working on my laptop and I just found out about this 1 1/2 years after purchasing this computer.
Thanks,
Evan
 
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its spec sheet only shows a 920m: https://www.msi.com/Laptop/CX61-2QC.html#hero-overview so its using the only card it has. You should be able to remove the 940m from that list, since you don't have one in case.

i keep finding links saying 940m but nothing solid yet, as many lead to articles on the pages about another MSI laptop that does have a 940m.. false leads

your Newegg link even says 920m

The MSI CX61 2QF had a 940m, perhaps they just shared driver packs?

Colif

Win 11 Master
Moderator
its unlikely you have 3 GPU in a laptop, and I doubt even if you had 2 Nvidia cards, that they would be different models.

the intel igpu runs desktop, the Nvidia runs games... having two of them fight over which games they play is just complicating things.

What laptop do you have? it might be the default drivers install for both cards
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
Moderator
its spec sheet only shows a 920m: https://www.msi.com/Laptop/CX61-2QC.html#hero-overview so its using the only card it has. You should be able to remove the 940m from that list, since you don't have one in case.

i keep finding links saying 940m but nothing solid yet, as many lead to articles on the pages about another MSI laptop that does have a 940m.. false leads

your Newegg link even says 920m

The MSI CX61 2QF had a 940m, perhaps they just shared driver packs?
 
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