T420 [4236] video drivers lost after booting Win 7 [dual boot]

Never saw this before. Dual boot Win 7 and XP. Neither can see each other so no cross contamination.
Video - NVidia NVS 4200M is what shows under display adapters.
Reboot XP, no issue.
Boot Win 7, then return to XP, video shows as [returns to] standard vga drivers and have no dual monitor function. If I try to reinstall drivers and point to them, it is not accepted. Only thing that works is to run the original driver download exe [NVidio Optimus - 83de45ww.exe] to uncompress files and then automatically run driver install. If I try to run previously uncompressed files, it does not work. This is the strangest thing I have seen in a long time.
Is this possibly a AHCI thing as I just got this booting in AHCI? Do not remember this happening in compatibility mode but it is possible that it was as I am just setting up this machine.

Do you have auto-detect switchable graphics enabled in BIOS?
W520: i7-2720QM, Q2000M at 1080/688/1376, 21GB RAM, 500GB + 750GB HDD, FHD screen
X61T: L7500, 3GB RAM, 500GB HDD, XGA screen, Ultrabase
Y3P: 5Y70, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, QHD+ screen

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