Greeting, all kindred souls!
I bought a 500w psu and GTX 1060 3GB today. It's been 6 hours+ that I try to get eGPU working with my laptop but for nothing.
At first, there was an error 43 which was fixed by clean uninstall with DDU and a complete install of driver 372.70 as suggested by members of this forum. Now I've got another issue, eGPU is detected in Device Manager without any errors but I can't seem to use it for gaming and instead iGPU is used.
Here's my specs:
V8.0 EXP GDC Beast PCI-E
Windows 10 64bit Home
MSI GT70 0NC
Intel i7-3610QM
Intel HD 4000
dGPU GTX 670M 3GB
eGPU GTX 1060 3GB
RAM 8GB
eGPU is detected by GPU-Z
I disabled dGPU in Device Manager. If I don't, when gaming, dGPU will be used instead.
When I try to enter Nvidia Control Panel, this error is shown.
Honestly, I'm about to give up and sell the whole setup as second-handed and suffer some damage and get over it. The reason I want eGPU because I can't afford the whole custom built PC and my laptop dGPU is breaking (sometimes, it not detected at all.)