W540 Thinkpad Nvidia Quadro K1100 Issue

I bought a new W540 Laptop, I disabled Intel Graphics card and I tried to open NVIDIA control panel. 
It gives me Error NVIDIA Display settings are not avilable. you are not currnently using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU.
I tried to uninstall and install the driver agian. I check dvice manager and the driver is installed proberlly.
Any advise how to solve this issue.
Thank you

You can't actually disable the Intel graphics. The display is always driven by Intel graphics, and the Quadro just renders frames when it is on, sending them to the Intel graphics to display them.
W540: i7-4700mq, K2100m, 8 GB DDR3L, 512 GB SSD
T510: i7-620m, NVS 3100m, 8 GB DDR3, 512 GB SSD

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    Yes, latest version of Yosemite, all drivers are up to date. All fans working. I have always used 2x 23" Apple Cinema displays, but they are using the GEForce8800 Graphics card that came with the Mac Pro in the other PCI slot. So the Quadro 4000 is not connected to any displays. Internal Media RAID is 3TB with 2.4 TB still available. I did not keep any settings from old CS6 version of Premiere. Here's an update for you. Its the Quadro 4000 for sure. I talked to PNY, the manufacturer, and they said to pull it out of the Mac and see if the problem goes away. So I did, and of course the problem went away. I also tried installing it in different PCI slots, but to no avail.  I also bought a brand new 3TB internal Seagate drive and I did a clean install of latest Yosemite and all the necessary drivers for the Quadro 4000 and installed Premiere CC on it. I had the exact same issues when running PP CC on the new internal drive. So that pretty much tells that its most likely a defective Quadro 4000. Unless you can think of something else that I am overlooking.

  • Nvidia Quadro 4000 not working properly

    Hi all,
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    You are making it (sounds like to me) harder than it is.
    You do not mention which ATI card, but you should use both side by side unless you have the 5870 which is using the two pci 6-pin power connectors on it.
    With Mac OS people generally never need to delete drivers by hand.
    ATI 57x0 and Quadro work better together. Or even ATI 4870 and GTX 285 in the past. Use the ATI for monitors and Quadro for CUDA and Mercury.
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    Included in today's 10.6.6 related apple docs is one noting new Quadro 4000 owners need to Reinstall the Nvidia Quadro driver update after updating to 10.6.6.
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    http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/jan11/010611.html#quadro4000
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4499
    http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.01.00f03-driver.html
    Reinstall the 10.6.6 combo update manually is sometimes a good idea (some of us use only combo updates when it comes time to update OS X).
    Here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349

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    Hello all,
    I have a very annoying problem with lenovo T61 with NVidia quadro nvs 140 (type 7664-1GG, 1400x900, 7200rpm wdigital hard upgrade, Vista Ultimate x86, 4 Gb RAM (2 Gb upgrade)). The external display (ViewSonic VP2030 20") on DVI does not work after turning reboot or undocking/docking again. Usually a reboot resolves the issue, but not now: finally it doesn't work even after rebooting. If I plug it (or another display) via D-SUB, it will work. The monitor's DVI definitely in excellent condition.
    It happend several times previously with various drivers and BIOS versions, better with one BIOS version and worse with another. Now I have the latest BIOS and latest NVidia driver.
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