laptop screen

[tupacboy]

my friend has a hp pavilion zv5000, when i unplug it from the adapter, and go on battery only the screen dims to save energy. Is there a way to turn that off?... please advise.

thanks

[GilbertsGrape]

check the Bios... most of the time there is a setting in the bios under power saver to turn off that feature. same way with the speed steping of processing.

[eSDee]

What about Power Saver in Control Panels? On my Dell it has different setting for plugged in, battery, etc.

[TruckStuff]

What about Power Saver in Control Panels? On my Dell it has different setting for plugged in, battery, etc.Yeah, its a power saving feature in Windows XP, not a BIOS thing.

[tupacboy]

well... i can't find it... its not under power settings... i went under display and under advanced... then under overlay it won't let me turn up the brightnes.. . any ideas?

[Devhux]

Quite often there will be a software configuration utility that is preinstalled (Dell's is called 'Quickset" and such).

Of course, you should be able to turn up the brightness manually no matter what (usually a key you press with the Fn button).