Screen brightness setting maxed but not bright.

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[h=1]Screen brightness setting maxed but not bright.[/h] Hello everyone, this is my first post regarding technical support ever, thanks in advance for any help provided.

I have a Lenovo flex 15 laptop that is running windows 8.1.

As the title stats my screen max brightness had been lowered quite a bit and after messing around with power settings, going to the manufactures website to download another graphics driver, using Google and searching through forums I find myself here wondering what to do next.

My biggest success/temporary fix came from downloading and installing the lenovo recommended driver for windows 8.1(Intel Extreme Graphics Driver) which restored my screen it its full brightness for about 10 minutes before crushing my hoped by reverting back into darkness, of course I checked the settings again and removed/reinstalled the driver a few times and got similar results each time so I decided to seek out professional assistance if possible.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1
It sound like windows is installing an updated driver...

Go into device manager (find the driver properties and version) and roll back driver.

another way is to go into system properties and disable driver updates.. then remove the current driver.. Scan for changes, and old driver version should appear

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 3.1 > Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8700
    CPU
    I7
    Memory
    24 GB
Hello INDO, and welcome to Eight Forums.

Double check to see if you have a Lenovo Power Manager type program installed that could have a setting for this that is overriding what you have set in Windows Power Options.

Check your Intel settings to see if anything may be set causing this. For example, make sure it's set for maximum performance.

In addition, make sure that you have Adaptive Brightness turned off.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6042-adaptive-brightness-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

Next, be sure to turn off automatic dim display.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/21702-dim-display-automatically-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

Hope this helps for now, :)
Shawn
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    64-bit Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom self built
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
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    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
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    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
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    Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium
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    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
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    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
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