Multiple Display Adapters - Why??

Hi guys,
Got me a new W520. See something odd I don't understand... In Device Manager, I have two Display Adapters:
Intel HD Graphics Family
NVIDIA Quadro 2000M
I am by no means a hardcore graphics user and I am not a gamer, but I added the 2000M when ordering because, well... Why not? Anyway, the first thing I did to this thing was rebuild it with a fresh copy of Windows 7 Pro x64. At some point, I realized the Intel graphics were not installed and as a result, I had NO video. So...
Why are there two graphics cards?
Why do the Intel drivers need to be operational with the NVIDIA there?
How can I even tell what is actually driving my displays??!!
Which brings me to...
This laptop is docked 80% of the time. Connected are three 24" LCDs. LCDs 1 & 2 are connected directly to DVI ports on the dock. LCD 3 is connected using a Lenovo USB2DVI Adapter.
All run at 1920x1200 resolution and overall work fine, although I do sometimes detect flickering and "waviness".
I just wanna get the most out this system; graphically and otherwise. It's running the SSD HDD and 8GB RAM, so combined with the NVIDIA, this thing should be a beast. The NVIDIA Control Panel doesn't seem to actually have any settings I could adjust even if I should or wanted to. And in the programs list under NVIDIA, all I have are the options to enable or disable "3D Vision". Don't even know what that is.
So, what should I be doing here? Anything? Nothing? Thanks!

I'm not joking.
In BIOS (press F1 key when you see turn on the computer and see the Thinkpad screen) you can select the different graphics mode of the machine. As you are keenly aware, the machine does have 2 graphics processors.
Under Display:
Selecting the Integrated option in BIOS shuts off the nVIDIA graphics card and uses the lower power Intel graphics 3000 on the CPU. This limits graphics performance, but allows for longer battery operation and full CPU speed on battery.
Selecting the Discrete option in BIOS forces the system to use the nVIDIA card. This improves graphics performance, allows you to use multiple monitors, but decreases CPU performance while using battery and reduces battery life.
Selcting Optimus allows software or the user to determine which graphics processor to use "on the fly" so that power budget and GPU performance are balanced for the workload.
Enjoy!
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Hi mynameisjd,
Thanks for posting and welcome to the Lenovo Community,
Am sorry to hear about the issue that you’re facing and I’d like to ask you if you faced this problem from a recent time?
And as I understand from your explanation that when you uninstalled the graphic driver it worked fine so I’d like to ask you to try to perform a recovery for the system to get the machine back as a brand new machine,
If you’d like to take backup from your data as all files on C: will be erased as this process will return the machine back to the initial state if your machine came with preinstalled operating system and there is changes on the operating system nor the partitions of the HDD sizes,
And please connect the charger and the battery and then please press on the one key recovery button while the machine completely off and then see if you can windows loading files and then you will get the options for the recovery and kindly check the below link for the recovery steps:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=HT062552
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K7D Master-L graphics problem: multiple display adapters/no winxp star

Hiya,
I just recently bought a new K7D Master-L and I've had a few problems with it. Other than these issues the board has been great, but this is getting pretty annoying and I can't seem to fix it, so I'm posting here for advice/help/solutions.
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Whats worse is that the display settings don't seem to stick around across reboots--it always reverts to the default settings of 640x480x16--which is extremely annoying. These problems exist regardless of whether I have a Service Pack installed (currently I'm running on a fresh Win2K install with no updates and having the same issues). I've tried multiple drivers for the card and no change, I've tried with/without the updated chipset drivers, and I've had this same setup work on my previous motherboard (Tyan Tiger MP) without seeing multiple display adapters.
Any ideas? Or is there something that might fix my WinXP startup freeze? If so I could reinstall WinXP and see if that has the same multiple adapter problem...
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Well my system just booted into 640x480x16, so it appears those registry changes didn't fix the issue. The registry settings were simply changed back to 640x480x16 for some reason. I haven't reinstalled the motherboard drivers, but I gathered them all up and I'll try this later today. Here are the latest drivers I found, all from MSI's site:
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http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/intel_Win2000_for_100.exe>
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We shall see if this fixes the multiple adapter problem. As far as the display settings problem, I don't know that the deal is. It works fine on other motherboards with the same hardware and drivers, so it must be something with the K7D, Windows, and ATI interaction.
Josh
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Just to be clear, you CAN run an application and split its windows across different Spaces by dragging those windows in the Spaces view. So open Firefox in Space 1, open a second FF window in Space 1, then F8 and drag the second window into Space 2 and voila. It's somewhat random what happens when you click on the application icon in the dock when you do this, but it does work.
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Processor: 3.7 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon E5
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First of all, thank you in advance for taking the time to help!
I just picked up this Mac Pro (as stated above) and I am having quite the time trying to get the monitors to display properly (or at all!)!
Everything is hooked up properly (i'd like to think so), i've run through most of the trouble shooting methods I can think of and have found online... and still, 2 of the 4 displays do not show! The Mac Pro is not recognizing two of them.
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Really pulling my hair on this one.. I figured it would be plug and play.. at least, that's how apple USED to be.
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Edited by: Claus64 on Jul 13, 2009 4:10 AM

HI CLause,
On Jul 14 2009, you wrote in SDN and said:
FYI: Found a solution...
The hierarchy analysis authorization will be based on a navigational attribute of cost center.
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I am also in the same situation as you and need to understadn your solution. I understand that you created a Nav Attr on 0COSTCENTER and made this auth relevant whilst ensuring that 0COSTCENTER is NOT auth relevant. This is all fine. The issue was you have multiple hierachies for 0COSTCENTER, how did the new Nav Attr help you solve your issue. When loading 0COSTCENTER what values did you load ino the new Nav Attribute and how did that link to the hierachies? Also, in RSECADMIN you created hiearchy nodes based on the Nav Attribute but I am confused as to what values you have in the Nav Attr.
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hi harry13,
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
If you're referring to the Lenovo® H405, this unit has an integrated VGA and HDMI out according to this pdf data sheet.
If you'll be using a flat panel monitor (that usualy has a VGA connector and a single link DVI D digital interface), you will need to connect 1 monitor to the VGA out and use an HDMI to single link DVI-D converter on the other monitor. You might need to scan for hardware changes under the device manager to identify the monitor that's connected to the HDMI to DVI-D converter. Note that you need to change the video setup under BIOS to IGD or the onboard graphics.
If you'll be using your discrete video adapter for the multi-monitor setup, you must change the video setup to PEG under the BIOS and the video card must have a vga or hdmi/dvi out.
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I had a fear that this was going to be the case, but you can't have two full screen apps open in two different displays. At least that's how Safari fullscreen works. When switching over to full screen mode in safari, it automatically creats a new space, turns on four finger gesture to swipe through full screen apps which I had turned off in place of App Switcher.
I don't use spaces because of the lack of support for using spaces with multiple displays. I would use spaces and mission control if I had control of each display's mission control separately.
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I know I would use spaces and mission control more if I could have this ability. I'd be interested to know people's opinion.

No no, if you read what I said, it would be that each individual display would be customizable to the user. The way you have it, it sounds like your second display will be dedicated to scrolling through fullscreen apps not allowing you to do it on the home screen. This is silly because with my concept, you could do that, by dragging apps to fullscreen in your second display, but if you want you could tell another display to scroll through fullscreen apps (independently) if you wanted. Each display will have it's own mission control with it's own set of desktops. I also can see how some people would still want them linked together, so this could just be a little check box made in mission control prefs to "link" or "unlink" desktops with link checked by default.
With your solution you're limited to your setup. but what if the person has three or four displays? Well then your solution would limit them to one dedicated display that scrolls through fullscreen apps where mine lets a person customize their desktops depending on their preference and setup.
further example: if you have safari, address book and mail in one display, you could still have ichat, PS and Illustrator in your second, and a text editor, FTP Client and iTunes in your third. Then you would mix and match these apps but it would promote the use of mulitple displays as well as benefit people with three or more, which thunderbolt, Cinema Display and Pro computers support.

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