Removing your video card and testing onboard graphics

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  • Fastest Trains

    Great, very clear walkthrough! A couple of extra tips that helped me when swapping between onboard and dedicated GPU:

    1. BIOS Check – After removing the dedicated GPU, double-check in BIOS that onboard graphics is enabled. If your CPU supports it, sometimes it’s disabled by default.

    2. Driver Cleanup – Before reinstalling the video card, uninstall old GPU drivers via Device Manager or DDU in safe mode to avoid conflicts/cloudy drivers.

    3. Thermal & PSU Load Test – Use a lightweight browser-based performance test to monitor CPU/GPU load and temperatures. Personally, I ran a tool that simulates fast-moving data (like visualizing fastest trains in the world) — it stresses the integrated graphics to reveal any throttling or instability.

    These extra checks helped ensure my system came back fully stable after switching GPUs.

    Has anyone else found additional steps useful in this process?

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