T500 Battery Problems

I have a T500 with a 6-cell battery, On integrated graphics lowest brightness settings I get 2:09 minutes of battery life at idle drawing 23watts

I have always had problems installing the switchable graphics drivers they have never installed correctly could this be part of the problem

In the BIOS I have it configured Integrated and disabled the OS detection for switchable graphics to try to help get more battery life no luck

Please Help

 

It seems to me that your discrete graphics is enabled. When you say it never "installed correctly," what do you mean? You were unable to switch graphics chipsets? Or..?

What brightness is your screen set to? Is your wireless on? Bluetooth? All these will decrease your battery life.

 

Driver never installs is always says installation failure

The Wireless is on, blue tooth off, and screen on lowest brightness

 

You may as well uninstall your current graphics drivers and try to reinstall the switchable graphics driver otherwise you'll continue to have problems.

For excessively problematic graphics driver installations you should install the drivers for the Intel mobo graphics first, and then proceed to install the switchable graphics driver from Lenovo. To facilitate this, boot up in integrated mode with switchable graphics disabled in your BIOS until you're ready to install the switchable graphics driver. At that point, boot up with switchable graphics enabled.

Should go smoothly.

 

Trying this right now its going smoother than I ever had it go, I uninstalled all the display drivers and restarted from scratch

Thanks Alot