Permanently disable laptop dGPU

[Pusher of Buttons]

Alright, I'm looking for any ideas....

Working on a beater HP dv6 laptop with a Radeon dGPU.

The dedicated chip is junked, system runs fine in iGPU. For the life of me I can't get it to STAY disabled or uninstalled. Nothing in BIOS. In device manager I've disabled, uninstalled, told Win10 not to update drivers....but no matter what I do it comes roaring back to life then the screen blacks out.

I think if I can get into Catalyst I can basically turn it off from there, but the moment it installs the drivers it tries to switch over and blacks out, so I can't actually get that far.

Any ideas? This isn't MY machine, just trying to help someone out to get it to functional for basic school work.

 

[Factum]

Disable the GPU in device manager?

 

[Pusher of Buttons]

Disable the GPU in device manager?

Done that. Had it all locked out to and the 1709 update re-enabled it for some reason.

Went with a registry fix for now. Seems ok. Note to laptop manufacturers.... please put something in the BIOS.

 

[pendragon1]

try setting is to the windows basic display driver then disable it in DM.
oh you found a "solution" as I was typing...

 

[Pusher of Buttons]

try setting is to the windows basic display driver then disable it in DM.
oh you found a "solution" as I was typing...

Thats a solid idea too, i basically want to nuke it from orbit. I'd physically remove it if it as an option....