After spending some time trying to figure out why my egpu setup always runs at 0%, I learned that the Sonnet Breakaway box 550W enclosure and any graphics cards are working as intended. For some reason, this setup works perfectly fine with other thunderbolt 3 laptops except for my HP Spectre x360 13. Knowing this, I reset my laptop and tried reinstalling the driver for my NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2060 Super. The problem persisted and I have no clue how to go forward with this. Does anybody have any clue what could be going on with this laptop?
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.It sounds like there is some HP security software installed which requires you to authenticate newly connected thunderbolt devices before they are allowed to interact with the x360.
@mini-i5, Do you recall a method to bypass this? So far the enclosure and GPU seems to be detected just fine.
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.HP installs a thunderbolt firmware configuration tool on some models.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03725328
@mini-i5, The firmware configuration tool is incompatible. Maybe the issue has to do with the BIOS forcing this laptop to use the integrated GPU.
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.Resetting the embedded controller is something that worked for a few other people.
@mini-i5, Sorry but I already tried this method beforehand and the issue still persists. I contacted HP support, and hopefully they will come up with another solution. This could be an issue with my particular laptop, though I don't suspect any kind of hardware damage.
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.Check to make sure your power usage settings are set to "Best Performance" in the Windows and Nvidia control panels.
I found something interesting in the NVIDIA control panel. For some reason I can't do anything with the processor settings to make sure that the diagram below doesn't link the laptop display to the intel UHD graphics. I don't know if this is important. Another thing I found out is that I can't even access the NVIDIA control panel while the integrated GPU is disabled.
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.To make the nVidia graphics adapter the primary graphics processor on the system, open up the NVIDIA Control Panel>Manage 3D settings. From the drop-down list under Preferred graphics processor: you can choose either Auto-select, nVidia, or Intel graphics solutions:
Alternately, you can click on the Program Settings Tab and set the graphics processor for each individual program installed on the unit.