T400, cannot start the Catalyst Control Center - error 'GPU active not supported'.

on a machine running vista business 64-bit current t400.

last week all was hunky dory.  This week, when I try to open my ati catalyst (CCC) control center, I have the following error:

"ATI catalyst control center cannot be started because the active gpu is not managed.

I read a few posts on this problem from not using the ATI graphics card and being rather on the integrated graphics card.  indicate the positions I could reactivate CCC simply by clicking on the battery icon in the system tray and selecting "mode high performance" to force the machine to use the discreet graphics card.  After I do and then try to start the CCC, I get the same error as above.  at this point after switching to the mode high peformance, my device manager also lists "mobile Intel (r) 4 series express chipset family ' as my graphics again.  If I have left or right click on the battery icon in the status bar, I don't see any options for explicitly switching cards.

the card driver intel 4 mobile is listed as being from ATI to version 8.520.4.4000.

I'm not sure of my version of the driver for the ATI card.  and I don't know where to look for it.

to my knowledge, nothing but a number of 'critical' windows updates have changed on my system between the time when CCC was working last week now.

any suggestions on how to fix this?  and what it does to stop working?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I finally thought to it.  and no new drivers or relocations were necessary.  at the end of the day, all I had to do was turn on version lenovo Power Manager (which appear in my taskbar like a horizontal green battery with the number of minutes of use remaining).  from there I can left click and access the menu that has the switchable graphics option where I can choose the economy of energy or high performance.  If a from there, I select high performance, I can then open CCC.

the important thing please note this is to access this menu, you must be using power management program of LENOVO thinkVantage (sticking the Green battery on your taskbar icon), NOT windows built in the power manager, which appears as a vertical grey/blue /? battery in the tray system (at least on mine).  Once you have, you can explicitly pass the graphics cards.

the strange thing is, I had been accessing CCC without explicitly switching the cards without problem until last week.  so in a way that the default setting should of spent high-performance energy saving, thus putting me on the integrated graphic card unless I went it manually.  weird.

slide, thank you for your help.  I appreciate it.  and it is an interesting note on freeing more memory by disabling the switchable graphics.  I'll probably this give it a shot and see how I like it.  memory is never bad!

Thanks again to everyone who helped.

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