New Motherboard Onboard GPU Broke?

Rowan88 · 18 Jul 2017 at 08:25

Hi,

When I first went to boot my new built PC I couldn't get a display to show on the monitor. I then installed the graphics card and it showed no problem.

I then installed all of the drivers but I noticed in the Device Manager I only had 1 Display Adapter (my graphics card). I couldn't see the onboard graphics anywhere.

I then tried to install the VGA driver from the website and got this error:

Does this mean the motherboard is faulty? Or am I missing something

Borealis · 18 Jul 2017 at 08:42

What CPU are you using? Some of the Ryzen chips don't have onboard graphics.

Rowan88 · 18 Jul 2017 at 09:02

Ryzen 1400.. I thought the onboard graphics where from the motherboard.

So essentially if my GPU failed I have no backup for testing?

ubersonic · 18 Jul 2017 at 09:14

Correct, not all AMD CPUs have an integrated GPU, just like not all Intel ones do.

Rowan88 · 18 Jul 2017 at 11:09

Ah **** wish I looked more into that.. Hopefully it doesn't come to that. If something ever happens to his GPU then I suppose I could bring my HD7870 round for him to test.

I take it AMD will not release support for these CPUs, it will only be in newer models they are integrated compatible?

Thanks for help.

David Bisset · 18 Jul 2017 at 11:17

No GPU in there means AMD can't add it with software - the hardware needs to exist. So that CPU will never have onboard graphics.

Rowan88 · 18 Jul 2017 at 11:29

Oh right I thought the actual hardware part came from the motherboard (because of it having the connections on the IO Port).

So anytime onboard graphics are available they always come from the processor, not the motherboard? The motherboard just needs to have the features to support the cpu?

VKleita · 18 Jul 2017 at 15:41

Exactly that yes.