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Posted on May 18, 2009

Dell Latitude screen will not adjust for brightness

My Latitude D520 screen brightness will not adjust. When using the hot keys the brightness contol appears on the screen and moves up and down with the buttons but the screen itself stays constant at about 25% brightness. I have changed settings in the control panel but to no avail. The laptop did this shortly after purchase but rectified itself after a couple of days. Its now out of warranty and has been like this for a month.

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Try doing this through dell quickset which can be downloaded from here:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R180759&SystemID=VOS_N_1400&servicetag=CVJKT1S&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=2861&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=3&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=25&fileid=246458

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