Can't Adjust Screen Brightness............HELP!

[Anjunabeats]

hi folks,

ive just recently installed Windows 7 Build 7100 on my eMachines E525 laptop, & i can't adjust the screen brightness with the 'fn' key anymore............please help because my battery power is getting hammered here!

 

[zigzag3143]

screen brightness

hi folks,

ive just recently installed Windows 7 Build 7100 on my eMachines E525 laptop, & i can't adjust the screen brightness with the 'fn' key anymore............please help because my battery power is getting hammered here!

I would assume that the Fn keys relate to accessability options and they come from emachines. what driver upgrade have you done so far?

Ken

 

[Anjunabeats]

erm...........just the graphics card which was done via the update, everything else just works! i think most British laptops have the 'fn' key?

 

[7echno7im]

Go to your vendors website and download the additional hotkey drivers. They may not have one listed for Windows 7, but the vista one should work fine.

 

[Anjunabeats]

E525

i cant find them, am i doing something wrong..............?

 

[Fisherking]

Go to Control Panel and then Power options. At the bottom of the page is a slider for Screen Brightness - adjust to suit you.

 

[Anjunabeats]

its not there!

 

[7echno7im]

It may be your intel video driver then. Go to this site and intel will check your video driver version. This may fix it.

Intel® Driver Update Utility for graphics drivers - Check for the latest driver

 

[zigzag3143]

its not there!

Its located in the mobility cpl. read here my fn key stopped working randomly... any way to adjust brightness? - Notebook Forums and Laptop Discussion

Ken

 

[Anjunabeats]

boohoo, ive tried everything............no different!

 

[zigzag3143]

screen brightness

boohoo, ive tried everything............no different!

You mean you dont have this??

Ken

 

[Anjunabeats]

You mean you dont have this??

Ken

yes i have the power options, but not the option to adjust screen brightness!

 

[zigzag3143]

driver

yes i have the power options, but not the option to adjust screen brightness!

The only things that I can think of is either a driver (my duh) or a problem with the OS install. Since the OP had a slider in vista and not in win 7. I would try the driver first, then re-install

KJ

 

[Anjunabeats]

ive tried that.................nothing!

 

[ark1227]

stop whining like a baby and wait...

your best friend right now is mr.google

incase you dont know the websit...

its

Google

 

[ark1227]

im also having that problem and so im just lissening to what the other ppl said on this thread.

THANKS FOR THE HELP GUYS!!

 

[Anjunabeats]

stop whining like a baby and wait

yea, thanks for that.....

 

[ardandy]

I do have the screen brightness slider but I can put it anywhere and it makes no difference!

Running RTM on Asus M50VC Laptop.

Asus's Splendid utility (auto dim/brighten the screen) doesn't work with Windows 7, says it cant find uiVista file. FN keys also do nothing!

 

[ardandy]

Ok, I managed to get the Asus Spendid Utility working by downloading a different version from Asus.

In the utitilty I can adjust things but the FN keys still dont work.

Keep you posted.

 

[Dogz]

Wish I could help but I have a desktop.