Repairing videocard in HP Pavillion 17-F054NZ?

[europanorama]

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/p...r_na-c04373621
It seems videocard is built in.
PC-specialist inspecting this laptop told the error(whatever i havent seen it) is caused by videocard.

If removable i thought to clean the contacts.
At least it has still warrenty.
What do you think?
Whats meant with switchable descrete graphics? page 12.
above all "descrete"
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04402649

[Train]

There are two types of graphic processors: discrete and integrated. A discrete GPU (short for graphic processor unit) means that there is a separate processor for anything related to graphic work whereas an integrated GPU means that it shares resources with the CPU to do graphic work.

So it uses onboard until a graphics card it plugged in, then it switches to it.

The upside of discrete is more horsepower to do stuff, which means the obvious downside would be battery usage.


discrete - constituting a separate entity

[europanorama]

The users have already found out. The seller must add an external videocard for free since it has still 2 year warrenty. internal must be shut down in cmos-setup right?
It told them to add a cooler-plate.

[Train]

May not, adding the card should automatically get picked up and on board disabled until the card is removed.
Anyway, that is how most of them now work.

Do not know about free, discrete cards usually means higher price.