Screen brightness differences

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skitty4gzus · #1 Post by **skitty4gzus** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:07 pm

I have 2 brand new T61's right next to each other. both 14" widescreens and the one unit is noticably brighter than the other. save for the obvious things is there a reason why one would be brighter than the other? video card maybe? they both are not (p) models so is there different video card options or not? is there settings other than brightness that would cause this to be so? like in the control panel for the video card?

sktn77a · #2 Post by **sktn77a** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:27 pm

Different OEM suppliers for the LCDs?

SHoTTa35 · #3 Post by **SHoTTa35** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:42 pm

odds are just different LCD manufacturers. One's Samsung and the other is LG or something.

Keep the brighter one for you

ymemuser · #4 Post by **ymemuser** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:51 pm

skitty4gzus wrote:I have 2 brand new T61's right next to each other. both 14" widescreens and the one unit is noticably brighter than the other. save for the obvious things is there a reason why one would be brighter than the other? video card maybe? they both are not (p) models so is there different video card options or not? is there settings other than brightness that would cause this to be so? like in the control panel for the video card?

Give us please FRU# for each. Thanks

skitty4gzus · #5 Post by **skitty4gzus** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:16 pm

your probably right. the one was custom built and shipped here from china and the other was bought from an in-states distributor. i will try and get fru for the one bought here in the states which is the one that is not as bright. the other one which is brighter will be tough to get info from as it was a gift and headed elsewhere. the ALWAYS helpful call into lenovo "assured" me that one T61 is EXACTLY like another T61, especially 2 that new. it would be really nice if lenovo in their infinite genius would use 1 supplier for their screens, and for the love of everything holy give us flexviews with lcd backlight in a widescreen format!!!!

tbThink · #6 Post by **tbThink** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:19 am

You can put the serial# in on the lenovo website and get your build details. I posted the link here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 110#406110.

skitty4gzus · #7 Post by **skitty4gzus** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:26 pm

BIOS level setting
>Configuration
>Display
>Brightness
it comes set from factory at normal which automatically dims screen on battery power. there apparently is nothing you can do through windows to offset this. you have to change this in BIOS to HIGH instead of normal.

Perdu · #8 Post by **Perdu** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:13 pm

Just looked mine up. For the screen it say 15.4 Fru. What's Fru in Lenovo speak?

Shelby Griggs · #9 Post by **Shelby Griggs** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:25 pm

Perdu wrote:Just looked mine up. For the screen it say 15.4 Fru. What's Fru in Lenovo speak?

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