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    T500 OSD not working

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by acerbits, Feb 20, 2009.

  1. acerbits

    acerbits Notebook Consultant

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    before when I use the Fn + home/end keys n the volume buttons to turn up/down volume n brightness I get the indicator at the bottom of the screen showing me the green bars, today they just vanished. Anyone know how to get them back?
     
    acerbits, Feb 20, 2009
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    acerbits Notebook Consultant

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    the keys work fine, just the green bar doesn't show up
     
    acerbits, Feb 20, 2009
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    menos Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    I tweaked HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\TPHOTKEY\OnScreenDisplay key in Windows Registry.
    I changed the value of Size to 14 1e 28 14 (four hexadecimal numbers - taken from the other ThinkPad registry).
     
    menos, Feb 21, 2009
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    acerbits Notebook Consultant

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    still doesn't seem to work, theres also a Enable with 0x0000000000 should I change that to something else?
     
    acerbits, Feb 21, 2009
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    menos Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Try setting it to 0x1.
    I presume you have tried to simply turn on OSD using a checkbox in "OSD tab" in "Advanced settings"?
     
    menos, Feb 21, 2009
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    Snakecharmed, Feb 21, 2009
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    acerbits Notebook Consultant

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    thx for the help guys, I got it to show up again but it's super tiny and I can't change the size of it =[. no matter what I type in the size box its still unreadably small
     
    acerbits, Feb 22, 2009
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    acerbits Notebook Consultant

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    ah got it fixed it seems i can't change anything in the advanced settings/osd tab or else it'll mess up again.
     
    acerbits, Feb 22, 2009
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    is this due to a new update. after i updated my t500 couple of days ago. the volume bars disappeared
     
    martinmach, Feb 23, 2009
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    acerbits Notebook Consultant

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    yeah probly, I followed the tip on the link snake provided. rebooted and it was back, if I opend the OSD tab in advanced display settings it dissappears again
     
    acerbits, Feb 23, 2009
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    That's what caused my OSD to go away too. The OSD tab in the display settings seems to write an incorrect value to the registry. Since you probably won't look at the OSD settings again after you're finished editing them to your liking, it's not a big issue to delete that value in the registry, but it's a little annoying to have to do it at all.
     
    Snakecharmed, Feb 25, 2009
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    menos Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    True, but there is an extra free satisfaction as well :wink:
    For instance, I set 750ms FadeoutTime - just for fun!
    Also experimented with color to get transparency - but to no avail.
     
    menos, Feb 26, 2009
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