screen starts totaly dimmed in XP

[piercehan]

for some reason (i dont know what i did) all of a sudden everytime i reboot into XP, xp will load all the way up until i can see my desktop and then it will dim all the way to the lowest setting everytime i reboot. i dont know what to do or what i did to cause it but its really annoying.

i have a mbp 15 with 2 gb ram.

please help

[scenespin]

this exact same thing happens ot me too. is it just dimming all the way?

[piercehan]

yeah it will fully load windows and then it will go totally dark ... i then have to press FN + F2 to bring my screen back to total brightness

i am still trying to figure out what i did to make this happen ... have you fixed it or figured it out?

[scenespin]

Neither. This is news to me that you can bring it back up!

[Bluey]

I have had this problem with my 17" macbook pro if i unistall the ati drivers in safemode then it boots up at full brightness.

i have had loads of problems with the 17" and the video drivers .. max res 1440 and no ati control panel + the dimming.
im going to try and install the latests ati drivers and see if they work.

I will let you know what happens

i never had any probs with my 15" macbook pro grrrrr makes me wish id not sent it back now.

[Bluey]

ok update
i just installed the latest omega drivers (cat 6.5 based ones) rad_w2kxp_omega_38252_7z.exe and the first boot up i got a BSOD but after a restart its fine no dimming and full res etc
just installing ut2003 cod2 bf2

oh and 3d studio max photoshop macromedia studio for work :)

but so far so good



[EDIT] i get a BSOD after i launch any game. it loads the game then once its on the splash screen it just bombs out... :( [EDIT]