I have everything I need except the brightness. Like I said, there is a driver, specifically for Windows 7 but it doesn't work, at least on my computer, even though its for my model. Anyway, this is really annoying, will it ever be supported? Wouldn't it have to as this laptop is still in stores and Windows 7 comes out soon?
i know, but the most important thing for adjusting brightness in vista and 7 is the proper Graphic card driver !
if you have vista drivers for your laptop try to install them in 7!
90% your problem will be solved!
Hey CS
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Have you looked on Toshibe they have 64 bit driver specifically for win 7. Look here Model Content Page If this doesn't work can you tell us what driver you have tried that isnt working
Let us know if that doesn't work.
Ken
Yeah, thats where I get my drivers. I have a A355-S6924. I go into the Windows 7 64-bit category and download the Toshiba Value Added Package for Windows 7. I know this is the correct driver because this is what I had to install when i had Vista and this enabled my brightness settings and a few other things. I have tried this numerous times and it just doesn't work.
What? The value package is what gives me The FN+F# Functionality. What you have pictured is the SD card reader. I dont know what your asking though.
Thats the thing though, as far as I can tell, there is no individual driver. The value package is the driver.
Cs
And it doesnt work correct. I have a dell that had a similar problem. Install the chipset driver and the vid driver that came with it. Video didnt work. Had to un-install the video driver and go to intel for the deperate video driver (same version) that did work. I guess dell's implementation of the package was what was giving me grief and installing the single intel driver what fixed it.
Ken
I'm not sure where to find any of that stuff. I doubt I can get this too work.
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i turned my laptop on this morning and the screen was so dull and i couldn't change it, i had been able to do this previously in windows 7 but today the option wasn't available :O
after a bit of reading on Google i figured out how to fix the non-changeable screen, some people had to reinstall Intel chip sets but Ive got an AMD chip so i though that must be wrong
so i checked windows updates history, sure enough, 2 'critical' updates went through yesterday, so i uninstalled them from windows 7 and restarted the laptop and when i came back, all the options were available again, so i was just windows updates stopping that for working.
i was just so glad i thought i share this with the forum so if anyone else has windows 7 and they suddenly lose the ability to change screen brightness options try that.
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BEST SHORT CUT EVER on a laptop WIN7 - (WIN KEY) + X ;D
I have one of the asus g73h series laptops, and was having this problem as well. As it turns out, there are two workarounds. One is to disconnect and reconnect the AC adapter; the other was to press Windows key + X (to bring up the mobility center), select "Connect display" and then click on "Computer only". Hope this hopes someone.
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