{"id":100,"date":"2009-02-01T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/2009\/02\/01\/how-to-increase-the-brightness-of-a-dell-inspiron-1420-on-battery-power\/"},"modified":"2009-02-01T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T19:55:55","slug":"how-to-increase-the-brightness-of-a-dell-inspiron-1420-on-battery-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/2009\/02\/01\/how-to-increase-the-brightness-of-a-dell-inspiron-1420-on-battery-power\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Increase the Brightness of a Dell Inspiron 1420 on Battery Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, the fact that a Dell Inspiron 1420 has a default bios setting that keeps the battery-powered screen very dim is held against it in reviews. This is just a factory setting that you can change. Changing it greatly improved my satisfaction with my new laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the poster who explained how to do it:<\/p>\n<p>I just purchased 1420 on 12\/7\/08 and had the same problem with screen brightness when power unplugged, as mention in earlier post. Since I have other Dell laptops , I knew this was uncommon. The fix I found was adjusting the video brightness in the BIOS at boot-up. To do this: Press and hold F2 while pressing &#8220;power on&#8221; button. You will see Bios blue screen with &#8220;systems info&#8221;. Use arrow down key till you get to&#8221; video&#8221;, then press &#8220;enter&#8221;. Arrow down again to &#8220;brightness&#8221; (without AC). My 1420 was set at 3. I adjusted with arrow key to maximum of 10. Then press &#8220;enter&#8221;. Read instructions at bottom of screen and &#8220;press Esc to exit setup&#8221;. Then arrow to &#8220;exit&#8221; (is highlighted in green) and press enter. This solved my problem with screen staying dimmed when unplugged. I should also say that you can still modify screen birghtness in battery mode , by adjusting the display brightness in the &#8220;power settings&#8221;. You should not have to go back into the BIOS again. Hope this helps.<\/p>\n<p>From:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/en.community.dell.com\/forums\/t\/19234321.aspx?PageIndex=2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, the fact that a Dell Inspiron 1420 has a default bios setting that keeps the battery-powered screen very dim is held against it in reviews. This is just a factory setting that you can change. Changing it greatly improved my satisfaction with my new laptop. Thanks to the poster who explained how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}