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Geek Culture / Monitor settings on a laptop?

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 21st Feb 2006 01:14
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Hey, I just got a new laptop, and whenever I take the power cord out, the monitor gets darker. This must be a power save setting, or something similar. If someone could halp me with fixing this, that wuld be...great!

My laptop is a Dell Inspiron | B130 (the thing cost me $1064.97 and this would really suck if I couldnt change this)

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JoelJ
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Posted: 21st Feb 2006 02:48
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try, Control Pannel -> Power Options


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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 21st Feb 2006 03:14 Edited at: 21st Feb 2006 03:15
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Ok, this is the default settings.

What should be different here?

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JoelJ
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Posted: 21st Feb 2006 03:54
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nothing, try looking at the other tabs, like "Advanced"


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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 21st Feb 2006 07:17
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I checked every tab, but nothing really seemed like it would make a difference, and I don't wan't to mess anything up...

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Posted: 21st Feb 2006 10:08 Edited at: 21st Feb 2006 10:10
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my laptop does the same, the charge voltage is higher than the normal battery voltage (it has to be or the lectrikery runs out of the battery...not in ), so running on mains you get a slightly brighter display, the difference should not be huge, have you tried making sure that you have the brightness turned all the way up?, on my Acer you hold down the blue fn key and press the left/right cursor keys to change the panel brightness, or maybe you have a dedicated management tool supplied with it, some program on the desktop or under the makers name in the start menu?



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SirFire
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Posted: 21st Feb 2006 10:17 Edited at: 21st Feb 2006 10:18
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My laptop has 8 levels of backlight brightness. The default level for external power is 8 (the brightest), and the defualt level for battery is 1 (the dimmest). Using the blue hotkeys on the keyboard will turn the brightness back up to 8 on battery, but this means your battery life will suffer.

I'm not aware of any software that can prevent the auto-adjustment, I just use the hotkeys which I assume are tied in at a hardware hard-coded level.

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Doh, well that was easy... I heled down the Fn key and pressed the arrowkeys...and it got brighter...yay!

Me! - Thenks for telling me what the Fn key was meant for!

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the_winch
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Posted: 21st Feb 2006 19:42
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Try looking in the bios, there might be a setting there. I don't think it's controlled by the OS.

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