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    Keyboard lights not working - NP8250

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by maxbell, Oct 22, 2013.

  1. maxbell

    maxbell Newbie

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    I upgraded to Windows 8.1 only to find that my graphics card was not being used (onboard graphics were being used???). Anyways long story short i re-installed windows 8 from the cd. I've also added all the drivers from the cd.

    SInce doing that, my keyboard lighting no longer works. I can get to the color selection screen (fn+/) but it doesnt actually turn on. Doing the Fn+* isn't doing anything either....


    additional info:
    Key board software version 2.0
    only can select colors on RGB option, all others stay grey?

    Help?
     
    maxbell, Oct 22, 2013
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  2. mattcheau

    mattcheau Notebook Deity

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    what version of hotkey? i think it displays a tooltip if you hover over the notification area icon...



    Sent from my PI39100 using Tapatalk
     
    mattcheau, Oct 22, 2013
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  3. maxbell

    maxbell Newbie

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    hot key enter is most recent... 8.0114
     
    maxbell, Oct 22, 2013
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    mattcheau, Oct 22, 2013
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    You likely needed to re-install the graphics drivers to get 8.1 working, the onboard graphics will always drive your displays due to the optimus system.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 22, 2013
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  6. maxbell

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    But of course... was downloading the WIN 7 driver... Win 8 version works.

    Problem resolved. Thanks. (What a noob mistake)
     
    maxbell, Oct 26, 2013
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