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Brightness setting on battery mode

Discussion in 'Dell' started by stormchas4, Jul 30, 2007.

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I kept having this problem when I would unplug the ac adapter and let it run on batter, the brightness would take a big hit. I went into nvidia control panel and would turn up the brightness, but it really didnt seem to get it up to the level as when it was using ac power. Well I just discovered that by left clicking on the battery meter and choosing windows mobility center, there is a brightness sliding bar.....upon using this, the brightness shot waaayyyy up...right on par with my external 20 inch dell lcd monitor. Awesome

I hope this isn't something that has already been discovered and I'm just slow to find it.

Let me know.

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Congrats!!

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thanks.....but the graininess is still there

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Usually you can control this through your keyboard as well. With fn + some other key in the F1-F12 range.

ninjafish, Jul 30, 2007

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