Apocalypse Avoided

My computer crashed yesterday. I was really sad. The screen all of a sudden freaked out, pink lines crossed everywhere, and then it rebooted. Well, attempted to reboot, it simply turned off, turned on, and failed to load windows. I ran a emergency windows repair scan and managed to salvage it, except whenever I start it, the screen has horrid and indiscernible graphics, and it eventually freezes anyway and I am forced to reboot. I figured it was probably a video card issue, and pretty much assumed I was fucked. But then a stroke of genius! I remembered I specifically bought the high end model of this laptop so I could get that stupid dual graphics card switch so I could, on the fly, go from game mode to stamina mode! After 3 years I realize it was probably a stupid idea, I never use stamina mode. BUT! I thought, maybe, just maybe, the high end graphics part of the card crashed, but perhaps the stamina part still functions?! And guess what, so far so good. Man did I luck out...at least I think I did.