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by dlwojo 1 view

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I have a HP ZV5000 pavilion laptop. When the a/c adapter was plugged in, the screen was bright and if I worked directly off the battery the screen would be dim. Now from out of nowhere, when the a/c adapter is plugged in, the screen is very dim and if I unplug the a/c adapter from the computer the screen gets brighter. I have checked for settings in "power options" and "display" in the control panel. Do you have an idea what the problem could be? Please advise. Thank you.

Dave

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by w2ktechman

such as FN + F10 or something. Look on your notebook keyboard, and you should see symbols controlling brightness.

As for getting brighter when unplugged, I have never heard of that before. Was it recently dropped???

by dlwojo

w2ktechman,
Thank you for the advise, that was it. I was hoping that it was something simple and someone had the knowledge of a setting to fix this. You rock man, again thank you for your reply.
Dave

by jclaatsch

I have a HP Pavilion ZE5600 which had the same problem.

Fix:
fn F2 to brighten it
fn F1 to dim it

Thanks

by techexec2

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To fix this: Turn down the lights in the room! :^0

Is your wife's car engine making noise? Get her a louder car stereo! :^0

Just kidding...

Seriously, it is quite common for laptop computers to dim the display whenever it is running on battery power in order to save energy and extend running time. This can usually be adjusted, but how it is adjusted varies from laptop to laptop.

Remember: Google is your friend:

http://www.google.com/search?q=hp+notebook+display+brightness+battery&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

What you describe (plugging IN to AC power dims the screen even more) could be a hardware problem. But, I would try to adjust the brightness first.

Good luck!

by w2ktechman

dimming the lights in the work area. I must be slipping... Thanks for picking up my slack! :)

by dlwojo

TechExec2,
Thank you for replying to my problem. You were right, it was an adjustment problem I just did not know how to do it since I don't really mess with all the settings and controls. I did try googling for an answer and after searching for sometime, this is how I found this website. Again thank you.
Dave

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