Triple monitors with Thinkpad Mini Dock Plus Series 3 T520

Hello

I have Lenovo T520 with home Mini Dock Plus Series 3 station.

I would like to connect three monitors, that is, two dviports and thirdly, one is the T520 monitor.

I updated my video driver for Interl (R) Graphics 3000 Driver.

When I try to run the NVIDIA Graphicdriver, I got a message error "the graphics driver is not compatible with the graphics hardware. I tried to find a solution on Lenovo forum

http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/options-Accessories/mini-dock-plus-series-3-with-triple-monitors/TD-p/57...

It says that I need to enable Optimus in the system.

I can't understand what he found where I can activate Optimus?

You guys have any suggestions as to how I can put it up using two DVI ports instead of use the vga?

Kind regards

Thank you all guys.

While constantly looking for a solution to extend the number of monitor. I managed to find a solution. Today, I had "I - TEC USB 2.0 graphics video card" and he connected with one of the USB port. It works very well and I am also pleased with the video quality. I can separately used the third monitor. It is also possible to share the display between the second and the third screen.

Concerning

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