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Enable Dual Graphics Help Please!
Hello!
So I have an HP Pavilion p7-1446s that I would like to have dual graphics installed on. Some details are: Windows 8.1 Motherboard: MSI 2AE0 (P0) Integrated Graphics: AMD Radeon 7660D So I was doing research and apparently this type combines good with a few graphics cards, one of them being the XFX Radeon HD 6670, which is the card that I recently purchased. I also have other proof that it works by going to this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHIzAjDi7qo&list=UULOp0... This youtuber has basically the same setup as me and I can't figure out how to make it work. When I get into the uefi, there is no option to enable/disable integrated graphics, even though I saw someone else had this option in this picture: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/... So my question is:What are the steps to successfully enable dual graphics between my built in graphics and my discrete graphics on this specific computer? Any answers I would be most grateful for. Thank you for your time:) 
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a b V Motherboard
September 29, 2014 1:11:23 AM

alphastew said:
one of them being the XFX Radeon HD 6670, which is the card that I recently purchased.


Hello,

If your XFX card has DDR5 memory, the system automatically switches to the discrete card, so you could not use also the onboard graphics (the 6670 DDR5 version is more powerful than the 6670 DDR3 + 7660D combination).

Officially, the Hybrid Crossfire can use only a handful of AMD graphics cards, all of them having DDR3 memory (you probably have an A10-5700 APU, so the best you could use is 6670 DDR3). There are some workarounds, but nobody guarantees the results.

If you have the 6670 DDR3 variant, only HP can help by releasing a new BIOS (as Paul NZ said)
a b V Motherboard
September 28, 2014 7:01:18 PM

Well if its not in the BIOS you cant get it. Unless a BIOS update adds it
September 28, 2014 6:54:46 PM

tambeshakunt said:
Have a look at this : http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/support/faq_content.ph...



Thanks for your fast reply, unfortunately this link doesnt help me though. The uefi on HPs are terrible... very limited and those options ate not on there. Thats why that picture i linked to was strange because although it is the same uefi, i didnt have those options. Once again thanks for the reply.

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