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    Heads up! Power Manager 2 and Switchable Graphics

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by StealthTH, Jan 10, 2009.

  1. StealthTH

    StealthTH Notebook Evangelist

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    Lenovo just released Power Manager 2 on 1.5.09. So far, I didn't see it available on the Auto Update utility but I found it when browsing the downloads page. So me being OCD about having the latest versions of software/drivers, I decided to download it. After the install, I found that my switchable graphics wasn't in the left click menu as it always has been. I right clicked and did not see it there either. Remembering what I did for the clean install (I went back to factory install), I did the following steps.

    Restart computer -> go into BIOS and select Discrete graphics only. Let windows start and re-install the drivers. Did another restart to ensure functionality. Then I went back to the BIOS and selected Integrated only. I let windows start, and again it had to re-install the drivers. Once this was done, I entered the BIOS again and put the display to OS detect function and booted windows normally. Thinking I had it fixed, I left clicked on the power manager icon and the switchable option still was not there. At this point I was getting pretty furious because Lenovo updates are generally solid. So I right clicked and found it near the top (see screen shot).

    Long Story Short: Switchable graphics in power manager 2 is on the right click after a couple of restarts.

    Everything seems to work great with my T400 again.
     

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  2. eney

    eney Notebook Consultant

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    Can you give the link. In Matrix its still the old version.

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    don't mind. i found it
     
    eney, Jan 11, 2009
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