Dell Vostro 3450 Advanced Options unlocking in progress

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Dell Vostro 3450 Advanced Options unlocking in progress

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09-30-2012, 07:38 AM

Okay, it looks like the Switchable Graphics options are working somewhat... I set "Primary Display" to "Switchable Graphics" and "Switchable Graphics mode" to "Muxless" just out of curiosity, and after a reboot the AMD card disappeared from the Device Manager (which shouldn't happen in this mode, by the way). Playing with these settings for a little while got me all sorts of bangs in Device Manager for both graphics cards, but I've never been able to hide the Intel one. It either turns off the AMD card or gives a yellow bang saying "the device couldn't find sufficient resources" in the Device Manager for either of the two cards.
I don't have any reasonable explanation for this, except that the idiots at Dell couldn't implement it the correct way and therefore disabled the options in BIOS.
I hate Dell so much... They made it so difficult to unlock the hidden options, and now these options aren't even working LOL