Windows 10: Windows seems to not want to use my laptop's GPU

I'm on a relatively new Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 laptop, one day I noticed that the laptop was having performance issue and it turns out that for some reason the RTX 4050 GPU is no longer in use, Task Manager as well as the Windows graphic settings refuses to acknowledge its existence even though the GPU can be recognized on Device Manager/GPU-Z/BIOS, reinstalling drivers/factory reset did nothing to fix the problem, any idea on why this might be happening?

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Best laptop under $800??

Well the last one I suggested seems to be the best for 650$

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Custom Driver : Intel HD Graphics & ATI Combo (Alpha) - by nIGHTmAYOR

according to laptop support page they do list an old downloadable driver for intel for windows 7 , weather this is related to there being several variants of that laptop or this laptop has switchable graphics i may just suggest you reset the bios and see if things change , if yes you may be able to apply step 2 , if not then apply step 4 and call it today , you are still better off being on the high performance gpu .

Out of curiosity can you take a snap shot from Settings > System > Display. Scroll down and click the “Graphics Settings” ?

 

windows xp installation and dual core am

could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx