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    Compaq presario 2199us

    Discussion in 'HP' started by chris_pbg, Jun 9, 2004.

  1. chris_pbg

    chris_pbg Newbie

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    I just purchased this compaq notebook and really like it except.....that when using the battery power the screen gets very dim.... even with the brightness maxed out. Does anyone know a work around for the energy management system. I spoke with compaq and after playing around with the settings there was no change. The tech said that they could not help. I would appriciate any advice.

    Thanks,

    Chris
     
    chris_pbg, Jun 9, 2004
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  2. Quikster

    Quikster Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    at least on all the other ones I've dealt with it automatically dims the monitor, but you should be able to turn it back up with fn + f4 or something like that.

    zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856
     
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    we have 3 comcrap notebooks and they all dim when on battery, have never figured out a workaround.

    on your 2199, did you get WLAN preinstalled?

    0dp
     
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  4. Venombite

    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    Chris,

    When you say the screen gets very dim even with the brightness maxed out, is the brightness maxed out while connected to AC? On the NX7000 I had, there are 2 brightness levels that the notebook remembers, one with AC connect & one with only battery connected. I just increased the brightness when in battery mode by hitting Fn+F8 until the screen when to max brightness and that was it. It should keep this setting from now on when on battery mode.

    Good luck!

    -Vb-
     
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    controller Notebook Enthusiast

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    Chris.

    On your 2199US, do you hear a constant, but somewhat mutted clicking sound near the fan?

    I do and a technician said that is the read/write head of the hard drive moving back and forth. Do you have a similar experience?
     
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    gtd2000 Notebook Consultant

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    Mine seems trouble free for now.

    I'm not too keen on the springy keyboard though :(

    If you want a very noticeable performance increase - format it and reload with your own vanilla OS.

    I use XP Pro and the only drivers you need to load from the supplied driver disk is the Modem and the LAN I think? It only needs two for sure.

    One thing that was very apparent after the format/re-install other than the increased "snap" to the system was that the volume of the speakers had doubled. No idea why this would be but the first time I watched a Divx movie I ended up wearing headphones as it was just too low to hear clearly. Now I need to turn it down - this is using the XP default drivers.

    I ended up installing the keyboard drivers as I wanted the onscreen display controls. This produced another difference - the original load gave a nice compact on-screen display, whereas the XP Pro vanilla load show very large bars and looks a lot less sophisticated.

    Overall other than the keyboard I'm very happy with this machine after the format and reload :)

    Tell it like it is...NOT how it should be :)
     
    gtd2000, Jun 10, 2004
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