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    Screen Brightness

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Tomcool, Jan 22, 2007.

  1. Tomcool

    Tomcool Notebook Geek

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    I've had my A8JP for about a week. First of all it is a great notebook, the best I have ever had. I ran it for the first time on battery mode today and when I plugged it back in to A/C mode it would not return the screen brightness to default. After trying a lot of things I uninstalled Asus' power utility and am now using windows'.

    What is the default brightness for this notebook and how can I change it other than using the Function F5/6 keys because when I do use them, it does not save them if I change between A/C mode and batter mode and then back to A/C mode.
     
    Tomcool, Jan 22, 2007
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  2. NetBrakr

    NetBrakr Notebook Deity

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    Have you tried change the setting in the Bios?

    JC
     
    NetBrakr, Jan 22, 2007
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  3. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    I've never heard of Asus systems having different brightness settings built in for A/C and battery mode (either default or user set), where it changes automatically depending on the power source, although a few manufacturers do have this on some of their models (HP in the past comes to mind....) It sounds like that is the problem you're describing, that you wanted the system to shift back to the setting you assigned with F5/6 on battery before you plugged it in and changed it when on A/C?

    Windows does not have different brightness settings nor will it remember settings specific to A/C and battery, these are always manufacturer specific if they exist. Brightness stays where you last put it regardless of power source - set it to 6 on battery, move back and forth from A/C and it will always stay on 6.... change it to 8 after you plug-in to A/C and then go to battery, it stays at 8.

    P4G also has different defaults and options (i.e. brightness) for A/C and battery, and sometimes that messes people up when they don't realize that. On A/C plug-in it might have moved you from the setting where you were (i.e. quiet office ) up to DVD or one of the other upper ones with higher brightness settings, and then when you went back to battery P4G wouldn't have moved the brightness back down because DVD is also an option for Batt power (unlike Super/High performance - I forget exactly because I don't use P4G anymore on mine)..... if any of this makes sense. You need to look through the P4G configuration screens to see what I mean.
     
    ClearSkies, Jan 22, 2007
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