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Have you tried another monitor? There is something in the way WinXP
implements video drivers that makes a dark monitor even darker. I just went
through this with a Mitsubishi 2060u. With Win2000 the monitor was fine.
The brightness adjustment on the monitor was turned way up but it was
acceptable. When I upgraded to XP, it was no longer acceptable and monitor
adjustments wouldn't increase the brightness to a usable level. I used
Powerstrip from Entech http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ for a while and it did a
much better job of adjusting brightness than the Nvidia drivers. Finally, I
decided that a top of the line monitor shouldn't have that problem and I
exchanged it under warranty. The new monitor has no problems at all.
Ben Moore
----- Original Message -----
From: "jason a. macarthur" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:45 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Ever since I upgraded to Win XP
> Once I upgraded to Win XP, I have been having problems with my screen
brightness. I have gone through microsoft tech support to no avail. When
my computer is turned on the screen brightness is so dark I can hardly see
the screen. I can go into the display prorety and brighten it myself but
any time I launch a program that controls the brightness itself, it reverts
back to the baseline(default) settings for my video card. How can I change
my default brightness and gamma settings for my video card so that this
won't keep happening? I never had this problem till I upgraded to Win XP
from Win 98. I even replaced my video card. Still same problem. Microsoft
tells me that the Motherboard is incompatible with XP. That sounds like a
cop-out to me since they can't solve the problem. Any help appriciated on a
solution or how to change the default brightness. System specs: P3 933,
intel board, 256 ram, GEforce 4 440mx video card.
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