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    autodimmer? dimming without reason with SZ

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by dukeletoatreides, Jul 22, 2006.

  1. dukeletoatreides

    dukeletoatreides Notebook Enthusiast

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    is anyone else having problems with thier SZ dimming for no reason? Mine has a few times. I turn it on and it will autodim down like it was on low battery, but the **** thing is plugged in! the settings look fine in the settings menu, i apply them, bam right back to dimming without reason. any ideas?
     
    dukeletoatreides, Jul 22, 2006
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  2. MxMoney

    MxMoney Notebook Consultant

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    It has only happened to me a couple of times but I reboot and the problem goes away - strange....
     
    MxMoney, Jul 22, 2006
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    I think it has to do with the video drivers and sony's power managament. It happens similarly with the S series. So I just disabled the autodimming feature.
     
    Valkyrie, Jul 22, 2006
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  4. GaryD9

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    That's a feature of the nvidia driver. Is the notebook set to 'speed' mode? If so, check the nvidia config settings. If it's in stamina, then I'm not sure what to tell you (I've never found any type of dimming config for the intel video driver.)
     
    GaryD9, Jul 22, 2006
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    That happened to me as well and I made a post about it a while back. It was very annoying and would happen in any mode... speed or stamina. I think it was worse when I came out of hibernate/standby.

    If you go to the Nvidia Control panel, by right clicking on the desktop, there is a setting called "configure smartdimmer." If you go to the Idle setting, and turn it off, it should be fine.

    They need to come out with some kind of software fix for this, because it seems like a good feature to save battery, but it doesn't work right.
     
    ///MB, Jul 23, 2006
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  6. Lyshen

    Lyshen Notebook Evangelist

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    The autodimmer seemed to work fine but I just turned it off and set the power settings to turn off the display all together. Although I can see times where the autodimm function may be nice...
     
    Lyshen, Jul 23, 2006
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  7. dukeletoatreides

    dukeletoatreides Notebook Enthusiast

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    yea is corrected with a reboot but it is a pain in the ass to have to do that to fix it, oh well its better than it blowing up or somthing
     
    dukeletoatreides, Jul 23, 2006
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    starstreak Notebook Deity

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    its a known issue with the nvidia
     
    starstreak, Jul 23, 2006
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