T500 Windows 7 - Screen does not display - Switchable Graphics Problem

Hello,
I have a T500 and I recently upgraded to Win7. Evrething was fine until I tried to install the drivers for the graphic cards and went on in BIOS and selected to use the integrated graphic card option. After reboot everything turns on except for the display. The fan works, everything looks OK but the screed does not display anything. I even tried to boot directly from the Win7 disk and install a fresh copy (maybe it would have been a better idea to do that in the first place) but it's the same, nothing happens. I don't know what else to try.
Please help.
Thank you.

UPDATE: I just came back after a visit to the apple service provider here in New Delhi. They have replaced the logic board on my macbook pro and guess what? the situation is still the same. No difference what so ever as far as the screen resolution is concerned. I can still see those black bars in the exact same places i.e. the right hand side as well as on the top of the screen. Even the size of the black bars are still the same.
I am so upset right now. After trying my best in order to solve this problem I went to the AASP with high hopes. I was very confident that after replacing the logic board this annoying problem would go away but unfortunately that's not the case. Even the Apple Engineer was clueless on how to solve this problem.
I think I'll call apple care and speak to the customer relations regarding a replacement.
If any of you can come up with a solution to this problem please let me know.
I'm all ears!!!

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