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July 14th, 2007 01:00

Screen dims after startup after bios update, inspiron 6000

My screen dims at the end of start up after I updated my bios with my insprion 6000. I had bios A04 and updated to A09. I've upgraded my OS to vista as well but was operating great until the bios change. I also updated the video card driver about the same time as the bios change. The dimming is the same whether it's on battery or AC power. I've tried to change the power options in bios but it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions. Is there a more recent bios that I can install? Please help. Inspiron 6000 Pentium M 2.0 Ghz 2 gigs of RAM Vista Business
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    Rollie_R

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    Posted July 19th, 2007 12:00

    DBAX74,
     
    Can you increase the brightness using Fn+Up Arrow?  There are three places to set the screen brightness, the BIOS, Power Options in the Control Panel, and the Dell Quickset Utility.  Look at Power Options and Dell Quickset and make sure that they are set the way you want.  If the BIOS is set to brightest, and the Operating System is set dimmer, then it might dim as the Operating System settings go into effect.
     
     
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    Posted August 3rd, 2007 13:00

    If you're on battery power when it does this is normal as the power management kicks in and dims your screen to increase battery life.As the previous post stated check to see if you can increase the brightness and also check to see if the same thing happens when on Ac Power.

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