I have a ThinkPad T410s. I was running without power the other day & was almost out of batter, so under Power Manager, I moved my power setting all the way to “High energy savings.” This allowed my battery to last longer. However, when I went back to my desk to doc my system I could not get both of my monitors to work (only one would come up). I checked power, tried changing cables, rebooting, etc. with no luck. Finally, I remember I had changed my power settings… [more]
What I found out was that with the T410s there are two graphics cards, the integrated Intel GMA & a NVIDIA NVS 3100M. Under your energy setting plans, there is an option for “Switchable Graphics.” You can set it to either “High Performance” or “Energy Saving” for both Batter and AC. The only plan that had “Energy Saving” selected for AC was the “High energy savings” plan I had selected. Once I changed it to “High Performance” it switched to the better graphic card and began to allow for dual monitors…