Dark Screen after Convert to Win 7
Posted By:manyu 2009
Ask: I had to wipe Vista off and do a clean install of the retail release of Win7. Since then, my screen is won’t come back to the same brightness I had before with Vista. The Fn brightness up/down controls work, but just take the screen from dim to REALLY dim.
I have all the latest BIOS updates from Lenovo and Windows updates. I’ve drilled down into Control Panel to get to the gamma adjustments. I can make adjustments there, but every variation makes things worse instead of better.
Since the Win7 conversion, I’ve lost the ATI Catalyst utiities. I’ve tried installing the ATI drivers successfully, but there’s nothing on the start menu, nothing loaded to the system tray, nothing different, no improvement.
This is killing me. I’m a photographer, this machine is my digital darkroom and I have to teach a photo class tomorrow, and my photos all look like they’re from inside a coal mine. Any suggestions?
Answer: go to your desktop, mouse right click, NVIDIA Control Panel/Display/Adjust desktop color settings, and choose radio button”Use NVIDIA settings”.
No video driver other than some generic thing that came with Win7, and though I’ve tried many options, I’m unable to get any of the ATI drivers to install and run. The ATI Installation Manager installs, but after that… nothing. No actual drivers ever get loaded.
