T61p graphics performing slowly on battery (Solved)

[Estrogen Kid]

For some odd reason, my 256mb Quadro FX 570m card depends on the power state when I boot up. If it's on AC while booting, everything works fine, but when I boot on battery, the Quadro card won't clock up at all. In the AC mode I can pull out the AC after it's booted and the grahpics will clock up and perform well. However, if I boot from the battery and plug in the AC, it makes no difference.
I'm out of ideas. I tried disabling PowerMizer, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Any ideas?

Edit: I resolved this issue by myself. I had to change Powermizer settings in the registry manually because it wasn't in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

for anyone else with this issue, here's the registry tweak. copy and paste the following into a .reg file and open it.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nv\Device3]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nv\Device2]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nv\Device1]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nv\Device0]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{9164C3A4-D723-47C7-A11A-4B90C468423A}\0001]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{9164C3A4-D723-47C7-A11A-4B90C468423A}\0000]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0001\Settings]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\nv\Device3]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\nv\Device2]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\nv\Device1]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\nv\Device0]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Control\Video\{9164C3A4-D723-47C7-A11A-4B90C468423A}\0001]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Control\Video\{9164C3A4-D723-47C7-A11A-4B90C468423A}\0000]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0001\Settings]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\nv\Device3]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\nv\Device2]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\nv\Device1]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\nv\Device0]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Video\{9164C3A4-D723-47C7-A11A-4B90C468423A}\0001]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Video\{9164C3A4-D723-47C7-A11A-4B90C468423A}\0000]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0001\Settings]
"PowerMizerLevel"=hex(4):01,00,00,00

cheers!