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re: Dim display Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 12:26 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) The Power saving option is usually a seperate Driver. It may not have been installed after the Motherboard repair. If that doesn't work, I would check with the people who did the repair. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Dim display Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 12:42 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Download the video drive from here: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=LAT_PNT_PM_D610&os=WW1&osl=EN Might be a good idea to see what other dirvers need to be downloaded. Are there any yellow marks in Device Manager? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Dim display Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 9:00 pm Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) The BIOS should have a setting for screen brightness when running on batteries, and on external power. You generally have to set that one also, in addition to the one in Windows. Check your docs for instructions on how to get into the BIOS setup when booting up. You should find the settings there. On Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:20 am, Pale Rider wrote: >I had a faulty motherboard replaced on my laptop and now when it runs on batteries >the screen goes impossibly dim. I thought there were power-saving settings for this >but I cannot find any in the obvious places. Anyone have an idea? It is a Dell D610 >with no hardware controls for the display. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum