Disabling switchable graphics for windows 7

Hi experts,
I am using a 4gb T400 and I am trying to free up the memory by disabling the switchable graphics in the bios change it to discrete graphics. and yet I still cant get close to a 3gb memory on my 32 bit Windows 7. I have seen in this forum they have done it but I cant seems able to get mine close to that. Is there anything else I can do !?
I have reboot a few times between integrated graphics and descrete graphics, to try to free the memory but to no avail. Pls any1, is there anything I have missed out.
Solved!
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boot into BIOS with F1
Enter Config->Display->
Switch OS detection to Disable.
boot into OS
uninstall Switchable graphics driver from unitl and install ATI driver from ->
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-73641
reboot system.
more info on switchable graphics and why you were having the problem on unit
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-70495.html#g5
hopefully this solves the problem.
tell me if that fixes the issue for you.

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