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[Newhotness]

i have a 700m Dell Inspiron laptop, and the screen changes brightness based on whether it is plugged in to AC or if its running on batteries, does anyone here know how i change that setting? I've googled it and checked on dells site, but nothing so far. thankx for the help.

[rridgely]

Try the display properties. Right click on desktop>properties> Screen saver tab. Look at the energy star settings there.

[Newhotness]

rridgely, on Jul 27 2005, 10:50 AM, said:

Try the display properties. Right click on desktop>properties> Screen saver tab. Look at the energy star settings there.

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NOTHING THERE, ALL THE SETTINGS ARE ALREADY NOT TO TURN OFF

[rridgely]

Could their be something wrong with your battery? Has it been loosing power faster than normal?

[DjLizard]

It's not actually a problem, it's a feature. It changes the brightess, as stated, according to whether AC power is applied or not.

The only way to change this is if your dell BIOS has support for changing it. Boot up and tap F2, or F10, or whatever the hell key it wants you to tap to get into BIOS/SETUP. If it's not in there, and you have the latest BIOS revision, then you can't change this feature.

[Newhotness]

thankx for all the suggestions,

i just googled the issue using different words and to my great shock, the issue seemed to be on another forum...the guy there said that dell's have a keyboard shortcut which adjusts the contrast, and as it turns out, if you adjust it while unplugged then it saves the changes and now everythings working great, thankx for the help

[DjLizard]

Really? o_O
Never gotten that to work. It probably just saves to BIOS anyway

[rridgely]

This seems stupid. Why would you want the screen to dim on a laptop. Its not like a cell phone where the screen is only 2 inches. Oh well, another thing learned I guess.

[DjLizard]

power consumption... dimming the screen just a few notches saves battery life considerably, and that was the point.