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Very Very Dull Aspire 5315 Panel

  • 16-12-2010 12:46am
    #1
    Danno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭


    Have two acer aspire 5315's. In one of them the screen is extremly dull, I have to make the room dark to be barely able to see the screen at all.

    Have swapped the panels and inverters between the laptops but still the problem machine will not display correctly. The good machine will fire up the bad machine's inverter and panel no problem, thus eliminating these two parts as faulty.

    Is it a motherboard problem? Or is there another bit I'm overlooking that needs replacing? I have tried the fn+sunshine to increase brightness and the fn+lcd/monitor out combinations, still no joy!

    Any suggestions, or is this lappy for the bin?


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  • #2
    NewsMeQuick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 643 ✭✭✭NewsMeQuick


    Me too! I've the 5830T, just got it yesterday. Even on maximum brightness, it's quite dark. I went to pick something off my 2 year old, budget laptop and it is shockingly bright, without washed out colours. WHY?!

    I opened Acer Updater and found no updates. I used a 3rd party driver (a non-scam one) and it found 8 drivers out of date with significant updates. One of them was a graphics driver but the problem persists.

    I googled this problem and it seems that Acers everywhere have this problem. People keep talking about backlights and inverters and none of it is proving conclusive - many people who went to the expense of replacing parts found it didn't help.

    Any ideas? :rolleyes:


  • #3
    asgaard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭asgaard


    If You have any spare inverters lying around just test them with Acer's screen.
    Btw.
    fn+brightness keys? Seriously, techs can miss things too ;)


  • #4
    NewsMeQuick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 643 ✭✭✭NewsMeQuick


    I've read a little about inverters but don't know much, so wouldn't know one if it hit me lol. Yes, I don't know about the OP but I've tried FN+the right arrow (bright bulb image) and it only goes so far, even with AC in.

    I wondered was it a driver. I tried in install an Intel driver instead of an Acer, for graphics. I want to say it's brighter (could be a trick of the mind) but it's not as bright as my old, budget laptop. Actually, it's worse than that. Playing a few games, the colours are so dark, it's actually terrible. The Acer site doesn't have much help at all and I sent them a message. The Internet is FULL of messages about this from what I googled. I suspect it's one of the manufacturer's attempts at energy saving.


  • #5
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    Danno wrote: »
    Have two acer aspire 5315's. In one of them the screen is extremly dull, I have to make the room dark to be barely able to see the screen at all.

    Have swapped the panels and inverters between the laptops but still the problem machine will not display correctly. The good machine will fire up the bad machine's inverter and panel no problem, thus eliminating these two parts as faulty.

    Is it a motherboard problem? Or is there another bit I'm overlooking that needs replacing? I have tried the fn+sunshine to increase brightness and the fn+lcd/monitor out combinations, still no joy!

    Any suggestions, or is this lappy for the bin?

    lcd cable or motherboard


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