Dell Latitude E5500 screen dark

Hello

Bought a Dell Latitude E5500 off of eBay. The laptop is fully functional, but has problems with the brightness of the screen. When I go into the BIOS, I go in the video settings and the brightness of the screen. I have reset the BIOS default and activate the max battery brightness level and apply. This solves the problem for about 5 min and then goes back to decrease intensity. I heard someone on one other site mentions an inverter problem and would like to know for sure.

Thank you!

wywyit

Hello

Check with Dell Support, their drivers and documentation online and ask in their forums
where there will be others with this model.

Dell support
http://support.Dell.com/

Dell support drivers - product manual & warranty Info (left side) - and much more
http://support.Dell.com/support/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=DHS

Dell forums
http://en.community.Dell.com/forums/

Dell PC Diagnostics
http://www.Dell.com/support/Diagnostics/us/en/19/
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Control Panel - Power Options - check setting brightness (and on each level of power).

Some video configurations have utilities in the Notification area (lower right next to clock) that
to control the video settings.

Right click on the desktop - screen resolution - advanced - settings check the settings
it.

And its possible you need to update the video drivers to Dell or the actual video
site of the manufacturer of the device (for example, Nvidia, ATI, Intel or another site).

I hope this helps.

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