How to verify system using right GPU, after system reset [duplicate]

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Published on 2013-10-28T17:38:07Z Indexed on 2013/11/02 3:59 UTC
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OS: Windows 8
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 3635QM
GPU 1 : Intel HD Graphics 4000
GPU 2 : AMD Radeon™ HD 8870M

other info: System Spects

Problem: im unsure that CCC is using AMD card instead of Intel's, i have encountered several issues since updating to 8.1 and i don't know what to do

What happened:

  1. Installed 8.1 patch first day
  2. After 1 minute of use, BBSOD, windows never loaded again
  3. System restore wouldnt recognize 8.0 restore points
  4. i did a system reset to windows 8 since the laptop was only 3 weeks old
  5. System Broke, it did restore to factory BUT kept the registry almost intact, i had to install almost everything again, since the factory drivers where working with the updated one's registry and several problems
  6. CCC Broke too <-

What i've already done

  • Installing new drivers on top of old ones didnt work, so i used AMD uninstaller first
  • Uninstalled and Re-installed Intel's HD Graphics Driver
  • Tried to install mobile center, but AMD told me that it wasnt compatible (even if thats the only driver that they provide via their page as seen Here)
  • Tried to use Auto-Detect, couldnt install driver because card was disabled because it didnt have the drivers... (see what they did here?)
  • Had to use a workaround with Samsung Update, the driver didnt appear as download so had to use search and downloaded the driver manually.
  • Now the graphic card appears on device manager and catalyst but as 8800 series (not exact model), and cant check the card with neither dxdiag/GPU-z/HWMonitor
  • when right-clicking on CCC only Intel card appears
  • launching a game and using as "high performance" would speed it up a little but i cant be sure

How to verify its working properly?

  • HWMonitor wont show AMD card even when set to high performance
  • Latest GPU-Z wont work because a problem with Intel's, and legacy ones wont either

what can I do now? I don't even know if I fixed my problem or not, and i also want to to use Adobe Premier with it, and its locked (the option to run it with the amd card not intels)

Edit:
now it seems to work, but cant change the setting for adobe Premiere and other programs that i Need to

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