In what manner have you perceived the R7 M460 to be faulty please
Whether or not you can disable ti depends on how Dell have configured the BIOS - UEFI firmware setup
Dell and more or less all OEMS limit what the user can do in the firmware setup
II have had a look at the manuals for that laptop
including the service manaul
Inspiron 15 5000 (dell.com)
There is little information on the available BIOS settings.
You MAY find that you have the option to allow only the integrated graphics on the processor - however it is unlikely I think and even if you can make that setting, that will simply route the display to only the integrated graphics, whereas the Dell is setup to use those on low demand and the AMD on high demand and to allow both to be used probably when setting up external monitor
It will not stop the firmware boot procedure seeing the graphics chip on the system board and loading the base driver for it, before control is handed from firmware to windows boot manager.
The added problem to this is that unlike an actual graphics card in a desktop that simply be disconnected, the AMD R7 M460 on your laptop is as shown here on the image to the right
AMD Radeon R7 M460 Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database
effectively part of the system board - and cannot be replaced except by an expert even if you could find the part
A used but tested from a reliable seller, system board if that is where the graphics are is about £160 UK
So the main question at this stage is - as I asked in the opening paragraph of my reply
Whether or not you can disable ti depends on how Dell have configured the BIOS - UEFI firmware setup
Dell and more or less all OEMS limit what the user can do in the firmware setup
II have had a look at the manuals for that laptop
including the service manaul
Inspiron 15 5000 (dell.com)
There is little information on the available BIOS settings.
You MAY find that you have the option to allow only the integrated graphics on the processor - however it is unlikely I think and even if you can make that setting, that will simply route the display to only the integrated graphics, whereas the Dell is setup to use those on low demand and the AMD on high demand and to allow both to be used probably when setting up external monitor
It will not stop the firmware boot procedure seeing the graphics chip on the system board and loading the base driver for it, before control is handed from firmware to windows boot manager.
The added problem to this is that unlike an actual graphics card in a desktop that simply be disconnected, the AMD R7 M460 on your laptop is as shown here on the image to the right
AMD Radeon R7 M460 Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database
effectively part of the system board - and cannot be replaced except by an expert even if you could find the part
A used but tested from a reliable seller, system board if that is where the graphics are is about £160 UK
So the main question at this stage is - as I asked in the opening paragraph of my reply
