HP Pavilion DV7 Mod Discrete to UMA (BIOS GPU Removal)

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  • Acnologia
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Dec 2016
    • 421
    • Poland
    #1

    HP Pavilion DV7 Mod Discrete to UMA (BIOS GPU Removal)

    Hello to all,

    I have moded the board with the usual stuff of removing some coils etc. for the GPU not to take any power.

    So now i have the laptop up and running from Discrete to UMA (Internal Graphics ) and not from GPU.

    But the problem now, is that the laptop needs , BIOS CMOS each time,because it tries to boot from the GPU . Can we somehow remove the GPU from the BIOS ?
    (It cannot be disabled from BIOS with option)

    I need to do a manual mod in the GPU section of the BIOS File and re-flash it

    Can someone help me out ?

    Thanks!
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    • peste
      Super Moderator
      • Dec 2016
      • 12954
      • ROMANIA
      #2
      Re: HP Pavilion DV7 Mod Discrete to UMA (BIOS GPU Removal)

      Hp DV7 ??? ... what motherboard ??? post the bios here ..
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        • Acnologia
          Badcaps Veteran
          • Dec 2016
          • 421
          • Poland
          #3
          Re: HP Pavilion DV7 Mod Discrete to UMA (BIOS GPU Removal)

          Originally posted by peste
          Hp DV7 ??? ... what motherboard ??? post the bios here ..
          Yes.
          I have attached the BIOS that is installed right now in the laptop (Backup with BIOS Universal Toolkit 2.0).

          The details of the laptop are:
          Code:
          Model : Pavilion DV7-6150ev
Product : LX269EA#B1A
Serial :5CH13613DC
          Attached Files

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