Onscreen display isn't working

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Onscreen display isn't working

#1 Post by kduniverse » Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:08 pm

After a reimage of my T400 with Vista Business, I noticed that none of the Volume, brightness, etc showes up on screen anymore. I could have sworn I saw it after the reinstall of everything, but I may be wrong. Any ideas? I already reinstalled power management driver, and hotkey driver as per Lenovo Support. Still nothing. Volume is working by the way, along with all other controls, just the display issue.

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Re: Onscreen display isn't working

#2 Post by Marin85 » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:32 pm

Don´t forget Lenovo System Interface Driver ;) But to be honest I don´t believe your problem will be solved that easily -> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=74170
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Re: Onscreen display isn't working

#3 Post by kduniverse » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:41 pm

Awesome. figures I guess.

Lenovo System Interface driver didn't do anything.

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Re: Onscreen display isn't working

#4 Post by dsvochak » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:42 am

I’ll ask the “Duh” Question: are both tponscr.exe and tposdsyc.exe running? If not, start them both and see what happens. On my machine tposdsyc.exe runs at startup (registry entry) and the On Screen Display works fine.
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Re: Onscreen display isn't working

#5 Post by Radioguy » Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:55 pm

There is a bug with changing the font or color in the current version of OSD. It's a pretty glaring bug for Lenovo to still release it, but it's there. It usually raises its head if you change the font or color, but it disappeared on me after an upgrade too. I had to do a registry edit (think I saw how in a thread on notebookreview) to get it back to the default size and color.
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