Laptop Display Brightness

Froggitt

I have a Dell Inspiron lappy. When running on battery the screen is bright, when plugged in to the power the screen is dull. Any way I can reverse these?

rogerramjet

Has it been repaired? looks like they have wired the light up the wrong way, I have seen this before on a HP laptop which had been repaired (broken screen)

If still in warantee contact dell and ask then to fix it...no point in doing it yourself unless out of warantee

Froggitt

No its not been repaired. Its only bothering me now as the sunlight is streaming thru the room and a brighter screen would help.

scheming_gypsy

not just Dell, my Fujitsu does it as well but i prefer it dull.

Didn't help you but at least it's not a faulty laptop.

Browntoa

if you hit the FN button in blue on the left of the keyboard they are some brightness controls in blue on the bottom right on the keyboard on the up and down arrow keys

Froggitt

Browntoa.....you are a superstar. Thatll teach me not to read the manual!!! Fn-F8 did the business.

Browntoa

sitting here surfing on mine as we speak...

spotted it the other day

cargo

Nice post I also hhave dell lappy same model and screen is the same I will check it out.

albertross_2

there should be some power saving settings in the bios, that tell the laptop to dim the display on battery to save power.. change them to full brightness.

monterey_2

I had a similar problem and was just "living with it". Sorted now - Many thanks.