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On some laptops the dedicated video card won't run without power connected by Caltrops Tech Support 01/22/2020, 5:28am PST
irrespective of what you tell Windows to do in the power settings.

It's a setting you might be able to override in the BIOS, but I'm betting that all you would accomplish by doing that is successfully bluescreening when the laptop isn't plugged in.

Those two Windows updates were both security patches and you probably shouldn't undo them. I doubt they broke your video card, seems like a coincidence. The most recent driver for your video card came out in 2016 so although updating to latest on there was a good idea it's not surprising it didn't help.

My guess is that your suspicion ("this very old video card is dying of natural causes") is correct.
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Pretty sure my video card is borked by obi wan kenobi? 01/21/2020, 8:19pm PST NEW
    Maybe it's the power supply that's borked? Also my new 1660 super GPU review: by MM 01/21/2020, 9:04pm PST NEW
    On some laptops the dedicated video card won't run without power connected by Caltrops Tech Support 01/22/2020, 5:28am PST NEW
    Re: Pretty sure my video card is borked by Oh 01/22/2020, 6:12am PST NEW
        Laptop. Built into motherboard. NT by obi wan kenobi? 01/22/2020, 12:21pm PST NEW
            Let's hotwire it NT by Oh 01/22/2020, 12:55pm PST NEW
 
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