HWiNFO ignores video card

[dfmastin]

within aquacomputer's aquasuite X.78
my intel CPU integrated graphics causes hwinfo to ignore my nvidia 3080
even though the integrated graphics were disabled and confirmed the 3080 was in use and not the integrated graphics
after fiddling with the aquasuite software with no luck
i discovered that only after disabling the integrated graphics in BIOS would hwinfo see my 3080 video card
i have not tested using an independant version of hwinfo outside of aquasuite
i can confirm that open hardware monitor would see my 3080 even with integrated graphics enabled in bios, but disable in windows
summary, integrated graphics causes video card to be ignored
solution, disable integrated graphics vis bios
let me know if you would like system details
thank you for helping the aquasuite software

 

[Martin]

This is not a problem of HWiNFO but standard concept of dual-graphics. By default the dGPU (3080) is disabled to preserve power and woken up only when there's a higher load.
HWiNFO fully respects this concept and won't wake up the dGPU when there's no need. Otherwise running HWiNFO just to monitor the dGPU would result in increased power consumption.
You need to put a higher load on your dGPU to wake it up.

 

[dfmastin]

Amazing I had no idea. thank you for the information