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KILL ME- Macbook Pro 15" Stuck in "Better Battery Life" Graphics Mode!!

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watermelon

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Feb 9, 2008
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Okayyy so-
I have a unibody 15" macbook pro.
I'll go into my energy saver.
The "better battery life" box is checked. So I go ahead and check the "Better Performance" box. I log out, and log back in. I go to my graphics settings and the "Better Performance" box is checked, however it still says next to it - you must log out for the changes to take affect... funny since I just logged out.
I tried doing an smc/pram/nvram reset... but nope :(

Just to prove the "better performance" isn't happening, I ran an xbench test before and after I logged out into the better performance modes. The graphics scores were pretty much exactly the same.

Here's a post on the Apple forums w/ someone w/ the same problem.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9812869&#9812869

Anyway, any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks!
 
Ok.....let's try a few things, open up a Terminal and type this in:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.Apple.PowerManagement.plist


(note that this will erase any custom power settings you may have, so you might want to write them down). Shut down, wait about 15 seconds, then start it back up and try switching cards again. (don't hit restart, do a cold boot. Just to be sure)

Also, did you try the old home remedy/healing incantation of repairing permissions?
 
J the Ninja said:
Ok.....let's try a few things, open up a Terminal and type this in:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.Apple.PowerManagement.plist


(note that this will erase any custom power settings you may have, so you might want to write them down). Shut down, wait about 15 seconds, then start it back up and try switching cards again. (don't hit restart, do a cold boot. Just to be sure)

Also, did you try the old home remedy/healing incantation of repairing permissions?
Click to expand...


Didn't work :(
 
Try repairing permissions?

(Go to Disk Utility, click on Macintosh HD and click Repair permissions).
 
Did you use a clone backup of your system to restore this too? That is an older backup to this MBP?
 
watermelon said:
Okayyy so-
I have a unibody 15" macbook pro.
I'll go into my energy saver.
The "better battery life" box is checked. So I go ahead and check the "Better Performance" box. I log out, and log back in. I go to my graphics settings and the "Better Performance" box is checked, however it still says next to it - you must log out for the changes to take affect... funny since I just logged out.
I tried doing an smc/pram/nvram reset... but nope :(

Just to prove the "better performance" isn't happening, I ran an xbench test before and after I logged out into the better performance modes. The graphics scores were pretty much exactly the same.

Here's a post on the Apple forums w/ someone w/ the same problem.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9812869&#9812869

Anyway, any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks!
Click to expand...

For the record, what speed is your processor?
 
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