[T41] Power schemes in Battery MaxiMiser are greyed out

[frankiepankie]

I installed Windows 7 Professional on a T41 i bought for my grandpa. I installed Battery MaxiMiser on it to provide a clear battery indication.

But when i click on the green battery icon in the taskbar, all the power schemes are greyed out
How can i fix this?


Screenshot:
http://tweakers.net/ext/f/wJnTv1I26U5Ng ... R/full.jpg

[Harryc]

Try the Power Management driver -
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... IGR-4GXPEG

[frankiepankie]

Thanks for the suggestion, but i already have that one installed

[dr_st]

Try the Power Manager instead of the Battery Maximizer. It's not "officially" supported on the T41, but it should work.

[frankiepankie]

I installed this one: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-70601 it displays the icon in the taskbar, but when i doubleclick on it, the T41 spits out an BSOD (page_fault_in_nonpaged_area) referring to ati3duag.dll

I read on the forum that the ati3duag.dll BSOD is found often with Windows 7 and ATi 7500. But how do i fix this

[frankiepankie]

In the meantime i have installed Windows XP Professional on it, because my grandpa is waiting for the laptop, and i don't know if this powermanager issue will ever be fixed.

I created a ghost image of the win7 installation, so if it ever get fixed i can easily revert to windows 7

[RealBlackStuff]

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=92174

[frankiepankie]

I already tried that (the last reaction is mine )


XP is also working good, and my grandpa doesn't notice the difference between Windows 7 and XP (the 7500 can't handle Aero so it looks ugly anyway )