Dell Inspiron 1501 screen wont brighten up or down

Trampas · 08-05-2008 8:34am #1

A friend of mine has the above and the screen is also dark.

He has tried to fn and light button to brighten the screen up but with no joy.

He said it just went dark when it was on.

Any ideas what the problem is or even better a solution.

I haven't got the laptop to hand but will have later

Thanks in advance

pwd · 08-05-2008 10:23am

it is likely to be the video driver, if you have vista installed particularly. I have that laptop and the vista driver for the video card caused a lot of problems, including that one at one stage. Google about the card and the driver. There is an update you can use to fix it.

Trampas · 08-05-2008 12:15pm

will get them to try that.

Thanks

AlmightyCushion · 08-05-2008 9:57pm

How dark is it? If it's so dark that what's on the screen can barely be seen then it's probably a problem with the backlight.

Trampas · 09-05-2008 6:46am

Its the back light but more the sensor as the button that turns on and off the back light is gone bogey.

Back light turns on when screen is open but turns off again a few seconds later.

AlmightyCushion · 09-05-2008 9:49pm

Could be a faulty connection either.

majiktripp · 10-05-2008 11:41am

When you turn on the laptop first, is the Dell logo at full brightness? Does the problem occur only once windows loads or is it straight from the moment you turn it on? If its only when windows loads its a software/driver issue, otherwise it would be hardware related if its a dim screen from powering on straight away.

Trampas · 10-05-2008 4:49pm

hardware fault. dell coming out on monday to replace the screen

Dell Inspiron 1501 screen wont brighten up or down

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