topic Re: Display issue on start-up in PCs & Accessories

Display issue on start-up

fanboyone — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 07:25:02 GMT

Hello, Firstly I hope this is not a replication of an earlier thread - I did look back a couple of days.

I have a PCG-K195HP and occasionaly (so an intermittent issue) when I start up the display comes up at a very low level of brightness - around 1 on the scale of 1 to 9. To be precise the initial Vaio splash screen is ok - but from the Windows log-on onwards is dark.
I presume it is a problem with the power management - however it happens when the battery is almost fully charged and when it is on mains power.
Welcome comments on this - thanks.

Re: Display issue on start-up

TygerTyger — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:33:09 GMT

Open Control Panel, and then open the Power Options. Go to 'Vaio Power Management' and there you can see you can change the brightness settings for AC and battery. Set AC to it's highest and see if that does the trick,.

Re: Display issue on start-up

kee-lo_ — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 13:47:50 GMT

This happens when you use the laptop on batteries and on the next boot up you are using ac power.

Re: Display issue on start-up

fanboyone — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:46:38 GMT

This happens when you use the laptop on batteries and on the next boot up you are using ac power.

Thank you for that - that response above seems to make sense thinking about it. I'm not even going to ask why it happens - will just ensure in those circumstances that I start-up on battery and then switch to AC 🙂

Re: Display issue on start-up

fanboyone — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:47:45 GMT

Open Control Panel, and then open the Power Options. Go to 'Vaio Power Management' and there you can see you can change the brightness settings for AC and battery. Set AC to it's highest and see if that does the trick,.

Ta for that - the brightness is on max - once the laptop starts like this it is impossible to shift it using the obvious settings altho using an external monitor is ok. I'll go for the response below

Re: Display issue on start-up

kee-lo_ — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:21:32 GMT

This happens when you use the laptop on batteries and on the next boot up you are using ac power.


Thank you for that - that response above seems to make sense thinking about it. I'm not even going to ask why it happens - will just ensure in those circumstances that I start-up on battery and then switch to AC 🙂

No problem.